CANADA’S OFFICIAL Exchange. Inspire. Empower. LANGUAGE MINORITY experiencescanada.ca | [email protected] COMMUNITIES ExperiencesCAN ExperiencesCanada Experiences.Canada Celebrating French outside of Quebec and English in Quebec NUNAVUT FRANCOPHONE EVENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 616 FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 1,693 FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 1,267 NICKNAME: Franco-Nunavois NICKNAME: Franco-Yukonnais NICKNAME: Franco-Ténois 86% of Nunavut’s JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH Francophones live in AB Flying Canoe Volant NT Rendez Vous de la Francophone AB Carnaval de St-Isidore BC Festival du Bois the capital, Iqaluit. MB Festival du Voyageur AB Rendez vous de la francophonie MB Louis Riel Day ON La nuit sur L’Étang NS Mid-Lent NL Jeux d’Hiver Franco-Labradoriens PE Rendez-vous de la francophonie APRIL MAY JUNE YT Yukon Francophone Day NT Fête de la Francophone Nordique NU Rallye Familial de Motoneiges BC Festival de la Francophonie BC Festival d’ÉTÉ Francophone NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ON La nuit sur L’Étang ON Franco-Ontarian Games MB Saint Jean Baptiste Day QUEBEC ON Théâtre Action FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 2,681 ON Cinéfranco ENGLISH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 657,078 QC Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival NL Provincial Francophonie day ON Franco-Ontarian Festival NICKNAME: Franco-Labradoriens/ NB Frye Festival NB Jeux de L’Acadie BRITISH COLUMBIA NICKNAME: Anglo-Quebecers Franco Newfoundlander JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 64,213 AB Féte Franco-Albertaine NL Three annual Folk Festivals ON Franco-Ontarian Day NICKNAME: Franco-Columbian SK Fête Fransaskoise NS National Acadian Day QC Fall Festival NB Jeux de L’Acadie NB Festival Acadien de Caraquet PE Evangeline Area Agricultural Exhibition and Acadian Festival OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER NU Partie d’Huîtes SK Rendez-vous Fransaskois NL Festival du vent PE Acadian Remembrance Day NS Festival des Cultures Francophones PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 5,129 NICKNAME: Acadian BILINGUALISM AND MOTHER TONGUE ALBERTA FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 79,154 YT NT NU 14% 10.3% 4.3% NICKNAME: Franco-Albertan 5% 3.1% 1.7% NOVA SCOTIA BC SK ON NL FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 31,370 7% 5% 11.2% NICKNAME: Acadian % % % 5 9 1.5 % 4 0.5% AB MB QC 7% 9% 44.5% 2% 3.4% 8.1% PE 13% 3.6% NB % FRANCOPHONES NEW BRUNSWICK 34% % BILINGUAL POPULATION (%) 32 SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA ontario FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 234,966 % ANGLOPHONES NS FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 16,373 FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 43,207 FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE: 527,690 NICKNAME: Acadian FRENCH AS FIRST LANGUAGE (%) % 10.5 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 NICKNAME: Fransaskois NICKNAME: Franco-Manitoban NICKNAME: Franco-Ontarian ENGLISH AS FIRST LANGUAGE (%) 3.4% FRENCH LANGUAGE SCHOOLS ACROSS CANADA TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS RESOURCES • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policies_of_Canada%27s_provinces_and_ territories YT – 3 1867 1982 2001 • thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bill-101 NL – 6 • corridorcanada.ca/resource/nunavuts-francophone-community-small-highly- NT – 2 The British North America Act of 1867 The Canadian Charter of Rights and École des Trois-Soleils was built in Iqaluit, active-and-well-integrated/?lang=en established English and French as legislative 1912 1955 Freedoms came into force entrenching becoming the only French language school NU – 1 1755 1978 • https://www. bonjoursk.ca/en/community/history QC – 340* and judicial languages in federal and The Société de parler français Almost a century after education rights are minority-language education rights in Nunavut and the northernmost French • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline?combine=&field_location_target_ Deportation orders were given Québec institutions. It also set out the right to en Saskatchewan is founded repealed in 1896 precipitating the Manitoba 1960’s The Fédération franco- in Canada, guaranteeing the right of language school in the world. id=251&field_timeline_topic_target_id=All AB – 42 on August 1755, beginning denominational schooling, which at that time to bring together French schools question, Manitoba grants the right The necessary amendments ténoise is created to defend children of Canadian citizens who find • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline-event/jeux-de-la-francophonie-are- BC – 40 the Grand Dérangement that was closely associated with the Anglophone Canadians in Saskatchewan to teach French between grades 4 and 6, to the Saskatchewan school the interest of Northwest themselves in an official-language minority — held-canadian-soil-first-time • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline/1910-1919 resulted in 10, 000–18, 000 (Protestant) and Francophone (Roman in order to promote and then expands rights to full French education act are made in order to Territories French speaking situation to an education in their own The Jeux de la Francophonie are held on • https://www.cbc.ca/acadian/timeline.html Acadians being displaced. Catholic) linguistic and cultural traditions. protect language rights. in 1970’s. allow for education in French. community. language wherever numbers warrant it. Canadian soil for the first time. ON – 455 • http://edimage.ca/edimage/grandspersonnages/en/carte_m02.html • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline-event/societe-du-parler-francais-en- MB – 23 PE – 6 saskatchewan-founded • https://acfa.ab.ca/index-main SK – 14 NB – 92 • https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/manitoba-schools- question • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline-event/the-official-languages-act-is- NS – 22 passed-and-the-position-of-commissioner-of-official • http://officiallanguages.nb.ca/publications-links-other/history-official- 1786 1874 1926 1969 1986 1999 languages • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline-event/the-federation-franco-tenoise- The first person of European Francophone fur Trader The Association canadienne- New Brunswick becomes the first officially bilingual province, 1977 The French language 1995 PEI passes its first French is-created descent to reach the François-Xavier Mercier française de l’Alberta was passing the Official Languages in New Brunswick Act. Services Act in Ontario Language Services Act. • https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/Education/ourcountryourparliament/ Great Slave Lake was a built Fort Reliance trading created. Bill 101 was passed in Quebec’s granted individuals a right to The Conseil Scolaire html_booklet/canadian-charter-rights-and-freedoms-e.html francophone, Laurent Leroux. post near the mouth of the — National Assembly; it made French-language services in Francophone (CSF) was • http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/flhs/flsa.aspx In 1786, Leroux built the Klondike River. The federal Official Languages Act (1969) (amended in 1988) French the official language of 25 designated regions of the created after years of lobbying • http://www.fpfcb.bc.ca Each represents trading post Fort Resolution is passed, ensuring equality of status of English and French in government and of the courts. province. led by the Fédération des • https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/timeline-event/prince-edward-island-passes- approximately 10 schools. its-french-language-services-act and in 1790 he founded the Parliament and the Canadian public service and establishing parents francophones de la • https://www.jeux.francophonie.org original Fort Providence. Colombie-Britannique (FPFCB). * English Language schools the office of Commissioner of Official Languages. • http://trois-soleils.ca/troissol.