Download or read book The French Presence in Ontario written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The French presence in Ontario officially dates back to 1615 with the arrival of Samuel de Champlain. The Francophone population grew steadily in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly in eastern and north-eastern Ontario as a result of the forestry, mining and railway industries. The Association canadienne-française d'Éducation de l'Ontario (now called the Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario) was created in 1910 to lobby for French language education rights in the province. In 1913, the French newspaper Le Droit was founded. The Franco-Ontarian flag was adopted in 1975. TVOntario launched La Chaîne française in 1987, which became Télévision française de l'Ontario in 1995. The French Language Services Act was adopted in 1986, giving French legal status in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and guaranteeing the public the right to receive government services in French. The Franco-Ontarian community has continued to flourish in the 21st century. For example, it rallied to save Monfort Hospital from closure in 2002. The Office of the French Language Services Commissioner was created in 2007, and in 2015, Franco-Ontarians proudly celebrated 400 years of history"--History, p. [1].
Download or read book Ontario 400 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ontarian government recognizes the important role of Francophones in helping Ontario grow into a unique and prosperous province. The 400th anniversary of their presence and their contributions to this province will therefore be celebrated through an official Commemoration, which will take place during 2015. The Commemoration of 400 years of French presence in Ontario is the opportunity to pay homage to Franco-Ontarians, to remember and make known their history and the advances they made, and, above all, to reinforce the ties that unite them to all Ontarians. Everyone is invited to take part and actively participate in the Commemoration. The province of Ontario is preparing to celebrate and pay homage to its Francophonie in order to reinforce, valorize, and resolutely position Franco-Ontarians for the future."-- P. [2].
Download or read book Ontario 400 400 Ans de Pr sence Fran aise en Ontario written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ontarian government recognizes the important role of Francophones in helping Ontario grow into a unique and prosperous province. The 400th anniversary of their presence and their contributions to this province will therefore be celebrated through an official Commemoration, which will take place during 2015. The Commemoration of 400 years of French presence in Ontario is the opportunity to pay homage to Franco-Ontarians, to remember and make known their history and the advances they made, and, above all, to reinforce the ties that unite them to all Ontarians. Everyone is invited to take part and actively participate in the Commemoration. The province of Ontario is preparing to celebrate and pay homage to its Francophonie in order to reinforce, valorize, and resolutely position Franco-Ontarians for the future."-- P. [2].
Download or read book Voices from French Ontario written by Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1982 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franco-Ontarians feel that they are both part of and rejected by Canada's two founding peoples. Although proud of their heritage, many hide the French side of their lives from the surrounding English majority. Some are pessimistic about their future; but for many in the region commonly known as Nouvel-Ontario, French roots run deep.
Download or read book Images of Canadianness written by Leen D'Haenens and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting patterns in English-speaking Canada and Quebec; the vitality of French-language communities outside Quebec; the Belgian and Dutch immigration waves to Canada and the resulting Dutch-language immigrant press; major transitions taking place in Nunavut; the media as a tool for self-government for Canada's First Peoples; attempts by Canadian Indians to negotiate their position in society; the Canada-US relationship; Canada's trade with the EU; and Canada's cultural policy in the light of the information highway.
Download or read book The Invisible French written by Thomas Maxwell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.
Download or read book The Picture Gallery of Canadian History 1830 1900 written by Charles William Jefferys and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.
Download or read book Notre place written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ce livre souvenir a été produit afin de préserver ce moment phare de l'histoire de l'Ontario et de sa francophonie et, aussi, dans le but de rendre hommage à toutes celles et à tous ceux qui ont contribué au succès de la Commémoration et au renouveau actuel de la francophonie ontarienne."--Page 5.
Download or read book French in Canada written by Maeve Conrick and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses comprehensively the complex linguistic situation in Canada focusing particularly on the position of the French language at both national and provincial levels. Language issues in Canada are of great interest to linguists and sociolinguists for many reasons, not least because of Canada's policy of official bilingualism (Official Languages Act, 1969). The authors address a wide range of topics of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of French and Linguistics as well as readers with a specialist interest in Canadian or Quebec Studies. Individual chapters discuss the historical background to the presence of French in Canada, language policy and planning at federal and provincial levels, the changing linguistic landscape of Canada in the twenty-first century, the multilingual community, language contact, code-switching, immersion education and the language of the L2 speaker, the dynamics of French in Canada, language variation and change. The status of French in Canada is of relevance to all researchers with an interest in multilingualism, a crucial issue in this era of globalisation. The authors bring their expertise as linguists to bear on a subject which is of considerable importance internationally as well as within Canada.
Download or read book French Canadians Furs and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest written by Jean Barman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Barman was the recipient of the 2014 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. In French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest, Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of French Canadians attracted by the fur economy, the indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants. Joined in this distant setting by Quebec paternal origins, the French language, and Catholicism, French Canadians comprised Canadiens from Quebec, Iroquois from the Montreal area, and métis combining Canadien and indigenous descent. For half a century, French Canadians were the largest group of newcomers to this region extending from Oregon and Washington east into Montana and north through British Columbia. Here, they facilitated the early overland crossings, drove the fur economy, initiated non-wholly-indigenous agricultural settlement, eased relations with indigenous peoples, and ensured that, when the region was divided in 1846, the northern half would go to Britain, giving today’s Canada its Pacific shoreline.
Download or read book Fruits of Perseverance written by Guillaume Teasdale and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by French military entrepreneur Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac in 1701, colonial Detroit was occupied by thousands of French settlers who established deep roots on both sides of the river. The city's unmistakable French past, however, has been long neglected in the historiography of New France and French North America. Exploring the French colonial presence in Detroit, from its establishment to its dissolution in the early nineteenth century, Fruits of Perseverance explains how a society similar to the rural settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley developed in an isolated place and how it survived well beyond the fall of New France. As Guillaume Teasdale describes, between the 1730s and 1750s, French authorities played a significant role in promoting land occupation along the Detroit River by encouraging settlers to plant orchards and build farms and windmills. After New France's defeat in 1763, these settlers found themselves living under the British flag in an Aboriginal world shortly before the newly independent United States began its expansion west. Fruits of Perseverance offers a window into the development of a French community in the borderlands of New France, whose heritage is still celebrated today by tens of thousands of residents of southwest Ontario and southeast Michigan.
Download or read book The Story of French written by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science and diplomacy. In a captivating narrative that spans the ages, from Charlemagne to Cirque du Soleil, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence despite the rise of English. As in any good story, The Story of French has spectacular failures, unexpected successes and bears traces of some of history's greatest figures: the tenacity of William the Conqueror, the staunchness of Cardinal Richelieu, and the endurance of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Through this colorful history, Nadeau and Barlow illustrate how French acquired its own peculiar culture, revealing how the culture of the language spread among francophones the world over and yet remains curiously centered in Paris. In fact, French is not only thriving—it still has a surprisingly strong influence on other languages. As lively as it is fascinating, The Story of French challenges long held assumptions about French and shows why it is still the world's other global language.
Download or read book Sustaining the Nation written by Monica Heller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economy set across francophone Canada. The book examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources.
Download or read book The French Presence in Yukon written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1840, Robert Campbell explored inland Yukon for the Hudson's Bay Company with the help of French-Canadian guides. In 1874, Francophone fur trader François-Xavier Mercier built the Fort Reliance trading post near the mouth of the Klondike River. During the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s, Francophones were already well established in the area. In the 1980s, the Franco-Yukonnais flag was adopted, and a French school and daycare centre opened. In 1982, the Association franco-yukonnaise was established. École Émilie-Tremblay, the only French-language school in the territory, opened in 1984 and is named in honour of the pioneering spirit and contributions to the community of one of the first Francophone women from Quebec to make the long journey to Dawson, Yukon. In 1988, the Yukon Languages Act was passed, and the French Language Services Office was created. In 2007, the Yukon government proclaimed May 15 as Yukon Francophonie Day"--History, p. [1].
Download or read book Communities and Culture in French Canada written by Marc Adélard Tremblay and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Canadian Witchcraft the History and Traditions of an Authentic North American Folk Magic Tradition written by Beltane Lowen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Presence in British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1793, six French-Canadian voyageurs, accompanied by Alexander Mackenzie, reached the Pacific. By 1812, over 300 French Canadians were engaged in fur trading and farming. Quebec families arrived in 1909 and settled along the Fraser River east of Vancouver, which would become Maillardville. The Franco-Columbian flag was adopted in 1982"--History, p. [1].
