deux solitudes meaning in English

two solitudes (canadian society)

Reflecting their deep-seated colonial roots, the Solitudes were historically strongly entrenched in Montreal, splitting the city geographically at Saint Laurent Boulevard.
Animées par leurs racines coloniales profondes, les deux solitudes se sont fermement retranchées à Montréal de part et d’autre du boulevard Saint-Laurent.
The cultural divide between Montreal's and Canada's Francophone and Anglophone culture was strong and was famously referred to as the Two Solitudes by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan.
Le fossé culturel entre Canadiens français et Canadiens anglais à Montréal et au Canada a été si grand qu’on parlait des « deux solitudes », selon le mot célèbre de l’écrivain canadien Hugh MacLennan.
Leith is the author of the literary history Writing in the Time of Nationalism, which The Globe and Mail called "a very fine book," "written in clear, exhilarating prose," and the memoir Marrying Hungary, as well as a study of Hugh MacLennan's novel Two Solitudes.
Leith est l'auteur du livre Writing in the Time of Nationalism, que Le Globe and Mail a qualifié de « très beau livre » et du mémoire Marrying Hungary, ainsi qu'une étude du roman Deux Solitudes de Hugh MacLennan.