From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/French/Richard Jones
French immigrants outside Quebec have never been sufficiently numerous to assure group maintenance. At the very most, links with the far more numerous French Canadians made some sort of linguistic and cultural survival possible. Within Quebec, recent French immigrants have demonstrated two widely different attitudes. For some, particularly those envisaging a return to France at some future date, maintaining links with other French immigrants and with the homeland in general has been important. Others, viewing rapid integration into Quebec Francophone society as desirable, have seen no benefit in keeping close ties with the French émigré community. As time passes, the links of older immigrants with France diminish, interest in participation in French immigrant associations wanes and membership in them declines. The lack of large numbers of new immigrants from France only serves to hasten the disappearance of this already largely invisible immigrant community.
