"Moncton, New Brunswick, was once a city of railyards for Canadian National Railways. English-speakers, many of them managers for CN, lived high on the river bluff overlooking the centre of town. Working-class francophone families, whose men worked the railyards, lived on the other side of the river. Communication was important for the managers, whose lives could be conducted in English within a fairly small circle. For francophones, communication was about solidarity, but certainly not about work: as Josiane Boutet has pointed out, in industrial production communication was actively discouraged, since it distracted workers from the physical tasks at hand (Boutet 2001). This scenario played itself out in various ways across Canada, from industrial towns to mining and lumber towns to fishing villages, where language and ethnicity reinforced class divisions in an economy based on primary and secondary sector production." p. 29