• Most Canadian native speakers of French live in Quebec, the only province where French is the majority language and the only province in which it is the sole official language. (wikipedia.org)
  • and a vast majority of French Canadians remained neutral when American forces led by Gen. Benedict Arnold invaded Quebec in 1775. (britannica.com)
  • Most French and English Canadians considered these actions "un-Canadian," but they illustrated both the social ills of Quebec and the ties of the French intellectuals with the world outside Canada. (britannica.com)
  • the radical leader of the French Canadians in Lower Canada (now Quebec) in the period preceding an unsuccessful revolt against the British government in 1837. (britannica.com)
  • The later French Canadian migration from Quebec province began with the growth of the lumber and textile industries following the American Civil War. (britannica.com)
  • the British Isles are the French Canadians, or Canado-Américaines, who first began to arrive in the years immediately after the American Civil War, chiefly from Quebec. (britannica.com)
  • During the early 1900s French Canadians from Quebec province settled in the state, many of them in the woolen-mill town of Winooski and others on farms along the northern border. (britannica.com)
  • Canada, Quebec, France, Switzerland, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Principality of Monaco are the six partner governments that provide funding to TV5. (canada.ca)
  • Monaco's accession in 2021 was a historic event for the partnership, which had not welcomed a new partner since Quebec and Canada joined in 1986. (canada.ca)
  • The French language as spoken and written by French Canadians, mainly in Quebec and parts of the Maritime Provinces. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Certainly, in Eastern Ontario, where the sensible Quebecers escaped to when there was talk of Quebec seceding, the road signs are bilingual - they are printed with English first and a French translation underneath or to the side. (hubpages.com)
  • [1] French is the only official language of Quebec . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Quebec premier demanded Rousseau apologize for saying he had not learned how to speak French despite living in the province since 2007. (timescolonist.com)
  • It makes me angry, his attitude, to say that he's been in Quebec for 14 years and he didn't need to learn French," Legault told reporters in French at the United Nations climate talks in Scotland. (timescolonist.com)
  • I find these words appalling and disrespectful," Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade stated in French. (timescolonist.com)
  • Rousseau is not the only CEO of a major Quebec company who speaks little to no French. (timescolonist.com)
  • George Cope, CEO of BCE Inc. between 2008 and 2020, spoke virtually no French during his tenure and sparked outcry from sovereigntists over his role heading the Quebec-based telecommunications giant, whose roots as the Bell Telephone Company date back to 1880. (timescolonist.com)
  • The share of predominantly French speakers in Quebec also fell to 77 per cent in 2021 from 79 per cent in 2016. (cbc.ca)
  • Outside of Quebec, the number of those who say French is their only official language declined in every province except British Columbia. (cbc.ca)
  • New census data shows the proportion of predominantly French-speakers in Quebec is falling - proof, says the province, that its French-language bill is necessary. (cbc.ca)
  • The number of English-French bilingual Canadians remained steady at 18 per cent, with a rise in Quebec offset by a decline in the rest of Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • The portal, which will be accessible from Quebec.ca, is intended to be the government's new one-stop-shop for co-ordinating French-language learning services. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Francisation Quebec, the new portal, will gather all French-language learning services in one place for new arrivals, future immigrants who want to learn French in preparation for their arrival, workers and Quebec residents who do not speak French. (radio-canada.ca)
  • In 2021-2022, more than 37,000 were undertaking steps to learn French through a government program in Quebec, an increase of 16 per cent over the previous year. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Quebec and Nunavut do not report enrolments in French immersion programs. (gc.ca)
  • Christine Fréchette, the minister of immigration, francisation and integration, announces a new, one-stop-shop platform for learning French on May 29, 2023. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Out of necessity, the educated class learned the English language and became progressively bilingual, but the great majority of the French-speaking inhabitants continued to speak only French, and their population increased. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bilingual Canada - Yes. (hubpages.com)
  • 1) I feel guilty at dropping French at 13 because I would never, ever, ever need it, not in my wildest dreams imagining I would leave Scotland and eventually live in a bilingual country. (hubpages.com)
  • Her parents are bilingual Canadians. (hubpages.com)
  • Canada is supposed to be a bilingual country, but I haven't noticed any bilingual signs in Vancouver or Newfoundland. (hubpages.com)
  • Just under one-third of Canadians reported being fully bilingual, and roughly seven per cent said they could speak three languages fluently. (cbc.ca)
  • And of those who were fully bilingual, more reported being able to speak languages other than English and French. (cbc.ca)
  • The data also shows the number of French-English bilingual Quebecers is on the rise. (cbc.ca)
  • Mr Hacault claims that under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Official Languages Act, police are obliged to offer their services in French, in areas - such as St-Pierre-Jolys - that are officially designated bilingual. (rael.org)
  • Mona Fallis, mayor of St-Pierre-Jolys, says that the local detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are all bilingual, but sometimes they need to draft in officers from other areas to cover staff shortages. (rael.org)
  • Regardless of the local status of French or English, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires all provinces and territories to provide primary and secondary education to their official-language minorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, guaranteeing political and civil rights to all people living in Canada as a cornerstone of national identity. (rael.org)
  • The Treaty of Paris (1763) completed the British takeover, removing France from Canadian territory, except for Saint Pierre and Miquelon at the entrance of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paris became the capital of France in the 12th century and Parisian French gained ascendancy over the others. (worldlanguage.com)
  • [5] There are differences between the French spoken in Paris (called metropolitan French ) and Canadian French. (wikipedia.org)
  • Air Transat, in partnership with TGV InOui, offers you a combination of rail travel from 18 cities in France and Belgium to Paris, with a flight to Canada. (airtransat.com)
  • FRANCE - During a visit to a 24-hour doctor service in Paris, followed by a visit to a psychiatric unit in Versailles, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, France's health professions minister, accompanied by Aurélien Rousseau, minister for health, announced the long-awaited plan to protect the country's healthcare workers. (medscape.com)
  • MAUNA KEA - As the world celebrates the new imagery of Pluto captured during the historic flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft, we speak to Daniel Devost, the Director of Science Operations at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, about how the CFHT helped NASA with the inspiring mission. (bigislandvideonews.com)
  • Courtesy Canada France Hawaii Telescope: CFHT data taken as Director's Discretionary time. (bigislandvideonews.com)
  • French is the mother tongue of approximately 7.2 million Canadians (22.8 percent of the Canadian population, second to English at 56 percent) according to the 2016 Canadian Census. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2016, 29.8 percent of Canadians reported being able to conduct a conversation in French. (wikipedia.org)
  • The channel also has a streaming platform, TV5MONDEplus (only available in French), that contains Canadian content, but also content from the international Francophonie. (canada.ca)
  • Providing Canadians with programming and audiovisual content that enriches the country's Francophone television landscape and reflects the cultural vitality and diversity of the Canadian and international Francophonie. (canada.ca)
  • Evan Fournier had 27 points for France, which lost to Canada in its opener. (woodtv.com)
  • Evan Fournier scoring 19 of his 21 points in the first half for France, which had won all three of its previous World Cup contests against Canada. (wreg.com)
  • Canada held the presidency of TV5 in 2018 and 2019. (canada.ca)
  • and TV5 Québec Canada , in Montreal, manages the signal covering Canada. (canada.ca)
  • You would expect a slight difference in Montreal, perhaps French first and then English. (hubpages.com)
  • MONTREAL - Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau has apologized for comments he made about not needing to learn French to get by in Montreal, words that sparked immediate and widespread backlash. (timescolonist.com)
  • A day after giving a speech almost entirely in English at the Palais des congrès in Montreal, Rousseau pledged to improve his French and said he meant no disrespect toward Quebecers. (timescolonist.com)
  • Following a 26-minute speech - with less than 30 seconds of French - to the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, Rousseau told reporters he didn't have time to learn French and was focused on moving Air Canada forward after the COVID-19 pandemic. (timescolonist.com)
  • I've been able to live in Montreal without speaking French, and I think that's a testament to the city of Montreal," he said. (timescolonist.com)
  • Many of these communities are supported by French-language institutions. (wikipedia.org)
  • While French, with no specification as to dialect or variety, has the status of one of Canada's two official languages at the federal government level, English is the native language of most Canadians. (wikipedia.org)
  • French is also an official language of all three Canadian territories: the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. (wikipedia.org)
  • French was the language of all the non-native people. (wikipedia.org)
  • The French language was relegated to second rank as far as trade and state communications were concerned. (wikipedia.org)
  • French is the primary language in much of the St. John valley, and it is the second language in Maine's industrial cities. (britannica.com)
  • Today a small but significant number of Vermont residents still speak French as their first language. (britannica.com)
  • Created in 1984, TV5 is the French-language international television network that reaches the largest number of viewers in the world. (canada.ca)
  • Contribute to the international outreach of Canada by offering a special showcase for French-language Canadian artists and producers abroad. (canada.ca)
  • French is one of the world's great languages, rivaled only by English as the language of international society and diplomacy. (worldlanguage.com)
  • it is the official language of Luxembourg, of Haiti, of more than fifteen African countries, and of various French dependencies such as St. Pierre and Miquelon (off the coast of New-foundland), Guadeloupe and Martinique (in the Caribbean), French Guiana (in South America), Reunion (in the Indian Ocean), and New Caledonia and Tahiti (in the South Pacific). (worldlanguage.com)
  • The appearance of Latin in France (then called Gaul) dates from Caesar's conquest of the region in the period 58-51 B.C. Gaul became one of the richest and most important provinces of the Roman Empire and Latin superseded the various Celtic (Gaulish) tongues as the language of the domain. (worldlanguage.com)
  • In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries French was preeminent as an inter-national language, though it has been partially eclipsed by English in the 20th. (worldlanguage.com)
  • French spelling generally reflects the language as it was spoken four or five centuries ago and is therefore a poor guide to modern pro-nunciation. (worldlanguage.com)
  • Although French pronunciation is governed by fairly consistent rules, the actual sounds of the language are quite difficult for the English speaker, and a good "French accent" is something not easily acquired. (worldlanguage.com)
  • The enormous Impact of Norman French on the English language has already been discussed. (worldlanguage.com)
  • français canadien ) includes the varieties of the French language spoken in Canada . (wikipedia.org)
  • Since then, Parisian (metropolitan) French has become the normal language in France. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the most common thinking on "French Canada" would be associated with Québec which is the only province in Canada whose language remains officially and exclusively French. (lovetoknow.com)
  • Because Québec is unique from Canada in that French is the sole official language of the Province, and because it's culture reflects so strongly its French roots, there is considerable debate among Canadians regarding the status of Québec. (lovetoknow.com)
  • As part of an immigration file or an application for Canadian citizenship, it is required to prove your level of French language. (alliancefr.org)
  • The number of Canadians who predominantly speak a language other than English or French hit a record high in 2021, according to new census data released on Wednesday. (cbc.ca)
  • English and French remain the dominant languages according to Statistics Canada, but the number of people who speak a non-dominant language at home grew to 4.6 million, or roughly 13 per cent of the population. (cbc.ca)
  • Meanwhile, at least one in four Canadians reported having at least one first language other than English or French. (cbc.ca)
  • In addition, seven in 10 Canadians whose first language is neither English nor French said they also speak an official language at home. (cbc.ca)
  • More Canadians are also able to speak more than one language, according to the census data. (cbc.ca)
  • Despite a bump in the number of Canadians reporting French as their first official language, the number of French speakers as a percentage of the overall population continued to decline in 2021. (cbc.ca)
  • According to StatsCan, the proportion of French speakers among Canadians has steadily declined since 1971, when 27 per cent reported French as their first official language. (cbc.ca)
  • Both numbers are increasing, people with French and English as their first official language spoken,' Caron-Malenfant said. (cbc.ca)
  • Statistics Canada says 189,000 people reported their first language to be Indigenous, with most of those saying they speak an Indigenous language regularly. (cbc.ca)
  • Even more Canadians - 243,000 - reported being able to hold a conversation in an Indigenous language. (cbc.ca)
  • Christine Fréchette, minister of immigration, francisation and integration, and Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for the French language, launched the platform on Monday morning. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Lawyer Antoine Hacault, whose first language is French, was due to face a judge next week over an alleged speeding infraction in the largely French-speaking village of St-Pierre-Jolys in southern Manitoba, broadcaster CBC reports. (rael.org)
  • It's a case which has highlighted the thorny issue of language rights in Canada. (rael.org)
  • French-language publication Projet J , hosted by J-Source, is led by the journalism program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and funded by a group of donors. (j-source.ca)
  • Starting June 1, Quebecers who want to learn French will be able to register for courses via a new online portal: Francisation Québec. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Bill 96 made it a right for all Quebecers, including anglophones, to have access to French courses. (radio-canada.ca)
  • In 1534, King Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier to explore previously unfamiliar lands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Essentially, Québec was originally settled by French explorer Jacques Cartier. (lovetoknow.com)
  • [6] When the first French immigrants came to Canada they spoke French as it was spoken in France at that time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Outside of English and French, Mandarin and Punjabi are the most commonly spoken languages. (cbc.ca)
  • However, Cartier failed to establish a permanent colony in the area, and war in Europe kept France from further colonization through the end of the 16th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • King Louis' colonization of "New France" truly is at the root of the strong French culture predominantly found in Québec today. (lovetoknow.com)
  • By the 1969 Official Languages Act, both English and French are recognized as official languages in Canada and granted equal status by the Canadian government. (wikipedia.org)
  • given to the English and French languages and an educational system was established like Quebec's two systems of public confessional schools, Roman Catholic and Protestant. (britannica.com)
  • As the two major languages of the Western world, English and French naturally have contributed many words to each other. (worldlanguage.com)
  • [2] But government services are also conducted in English (and French in the rest of English-speaking Canada). (wikipedia.org)
  • English and French speaking operators are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (airtransat.com)
  • Canada's Official Languages Act (Or the Loi sur les langues officielles) came into force in 1969 and gives both English and French languages equal status in the country. (rael.org)
  • Donald J. Johnston, president of the Treasury Board of Canada, spoke at a press conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week on the same topic: ''Hopefully there will be a (budget) consensus reached within the United States which will reduce interest rates. (csmonitor.com)
  • [1] 7.9 million said they spoke French at home. (wikipedia.org)
  • Iowa-raised Brian Hannasch, CEO of Quebec's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., spoke only English when he joined the company in 2001 and when he was named CEO in 2014, though he pledged to learn French. (timescolonist.com)
  • There was a decline in the number of Canadians who predominantly spoke some European languages such as Italian, Polish and Greek. (cbc.ca)
  • They couldn't speak English and we couldn't speak French. (hubpages.com)
  • Apple recently pushed a software update to the HomePod that enables Siri to speak in French, German, and Canadian English. (macrumors.com)
  • Siri can now speak Canadian English? (macrumors.com)
  • In the 2011 census about 10 million people said they could speak French in a conversation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Imagine tomorrow morning someone who would agree to become president of a French company in France and who would not speak French and who, in addition, would brag about it," he said Thursday. (timescolonist.com)
  • Rania Llewellyn, who came on board as CEO at Laurentian Bank Financial Group in October 2020, is multilingual but did not speak French on arrival. (timescolonist.com)
  • The officer involved did not speak to him in French, and also wrote out the speeding ticket in English, he says. (rael.org)
  • It also recognises that Canadians speak other languages, such as members of indigenous communities. (rael.org)
  • French firms, including shipbuilder DCNS, want to pursue contracts for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program, the future fleet that will replace the country's destroyers and frigates. (rollcall.com)
  • Calling the comments disrespectful to French-speaking Air Canada employees, Legault added that the airline's board of directors should consider whether Rousseau should be at the head of country's largest carrier. (timescolonist.com)
  • Some identify French Canada as only those parts that are predominantly (or exclusively) Francophone. (lovetoknow.com)
  • The increase is largely due to a rise in the number of Canadians who report speaking predominantly South Asian languages, including Hindi and Punjabi. (cbc.ca)
  • At the beginning of the 17th century, French settlements and private companies were established in the area that is now eastern Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • The result sent Latvia and Canada through to the second round, and meant France - which won the bronze at the last two World Cups - cannot finish better than 17th place this year. (woodtv.com)
  • I'm frozen out': Canadians question immigration department's approach to parent, grandparent sponsorship. (radio-canada.ca)
  • Most recently, in 2006, the House of Commons officially recognized that, "the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada. (lovetoknow.com)
  • The TEF Canada makes this possible, and has been officially recognized by the Canadian federal government since 2002. (alliancefr.org)
  • French was one of the two official languages of the League of Nations and is now one of the six official languages of the United Nations. (worldlanguage.com)
  • Anglicization of the French population failed, and it became obvious that coexistence was required. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the Irish the leading foreign elements are Canadian English (18.7%), Canadian French (r 5.8%) and English (9.7%), these four constituting threefourths of the foreign population. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Screening an extended panel of 41 candidate genes allowed us to identify probable pathogenic mutations in 69% of families with DCM in our cohort of mostly French-Canadian patients. (nih.gov)
  • the most common mutations are carried by 1/27 normal adults of Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish origin, although other mutations cluster in some French-Canadian and Cajun populations. (msdmanuals.com)
  • French is one of the Romance languages, descended from Latin. (worldlanguage.com)
  • Canada's official languages commissioner has called out Air Canada for failing to meet its obligations in the past. (timescolonist.com)
  • Statistics Canada said that indicates they're being learned as second languages. (cbc.ca)
  • The stage had been set for a confrontation - in this case with media in the corridor of a downtown convention centre - since Rousseau in February took over the top job at Air Canada from fluent French speaker Calin Rovinescu, who helmed the company for 12 years. (timescolonist.com)
  • The results that we released today show in large part that trends are continuing in Canada,' said Éric Caron-Malenfant, assistant director of the Centre for Demography at Statistics Canada, during a news conference on Wednesday. (cbc.ca)
  • HELSINKI, Finland - Canada's National Men's Team has secured its spot in the quarterfinals at the 2022 IIHF World Championship after defeating France 7-1 in its final preliminary-round game on Tuesday. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • TSN and RDS, the official broadcast partners of Hockey Canada, will continue their extensive coverage of the 2022 IIHF World Championship, with TSN broadcasting four quarterfinals, both semifinals, and the bronze and gold medal games. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • He is credited with being the first to arrive and he attempted to establish a French colony in Québec City. (lovetoknow.com)
  • People gather on Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill during Canada Day in Ottawa. (cbc.ca)
  • While we are a proud Canadian organization, we acknowledge that our head office is located on traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. (ringette.ca)
  • We let a lot of people down, ourselves first," French forward Nicolas Batum said. (woodtv.com)
  • For more information on Hockey Canada and Canada's National Men's Team, please visit HockeyCanada.ca , or follow through social media on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram . (hockeycanada.ca)
  • netted the game-winner off a rebound just under five minutes into the third period, his second goal of the game and fourth in three contests, to give Canada its 28th gold medal at men's worlds. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • Canada set a senior men's national team record for points - it scored 126 against Jordan at the World Cup four years ago - and set a tournament record with 44 assists. (woodtv.com)
  • In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV (1654-1715), which had legalized freedom of religion of the Reformed Church, caused the emigration from France of 300,000 Huguenots (French Calvinists) to other countries of Europe and to North America. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the British began their domination of eastern North America, some parts of which had been controlled by the French. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canadian province where citizens of French origin are in the majority, has developed a distinctive culture that differs in many respects from that of the rest of Canada-and, indeed, from the rest of North America. (britannica.com)
  • I dropped Latin as well, never thinking I would ever be speaking to any Romans, but, believe this or not, one of my new friends in Canada is a retired teacher - she taught conversational Latin - can you believe that? (hubpages.com)
  • Canada vs. Sweden (quarterfinal) - Thursday, May 26 (9:20 a.m. (hockeycanada.ca)
  • We want to remake Radio-Canada because more than ever it must be a living space, an open organization, flexible and agile," said Louis Lalande, executive vice-president of French services in a press release . (j-source.ca)
  • Dans une étude cas-témoins rétrospective menée en milieu hospitalier en 2011-2012, des adultes atteints de maladies lymphoprolifératives (n = 130) ont été recrutés dans des services de consultations externes à Menoufia (Égypte), tandis que les témoins appariés pour l'âge et le sexe (n = 130) recrutés souffraient de fractures. (who.int)
  • According to the Canadian Press , "Radio-Canada hasn't said how much money is being spent on the rebranding effort, but says $400,000 was spent on external consultants while 95 per cent of the work was covered by existing communications budgets. (j-source.ca)
  • Influenza A(H1N1) has been isolated from sporadic cases in Canada, France, the United States, and Yugoslavia. (cdc.gov)
  • According to lawyer Dominique Rousseau, the current text does not conform to the French constitution, for a number of reasons. (canadians.org)
  • In fact, French President Francois Mitterrand and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau met in Ottawa last month to discuss the agenda for the Versailles summit conference opening June 4. (csmonitor.com)
  • Both France and Canada have strong economic reasons for wanting what Mr. Delors, in a recent interview, called ''a good budget compromise. (csmonitor.com)
  • When Mr. Mitterrand won the presidential election last spring, his top economic goals were a reduction in unemployment and a redistribution of income in favor of the poor and near-poor in France. (csmonitor.com)
  • Amidst economic fluctuations and disruptive forces, Canadian businesses are steering through uncharted waters. (itworldcanada.com)
  • The French Constitutional Court has delayed its ruling on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) prompting calls for the deal's provisional application to be postponed past July 1. (canadians.org)
  • Trae Bell-Haynes added 15 points and eight assists for Canada (2-0), which opened with an impressive 95-65 win over France. (woodtv.com)
  • The paper uses the French-Canadian translator Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood's theory of 'translating in the feminine' - a feminist translation practice, to analyse the occurance of translation found in the novel. (lu.se)
  • Defense News reports that "France, concerned that US firms have the inside track on billions of dollars worth of future naval contracts, is lobbying the Canadian government to consider all options for its new surface fleet. (rollcall.com)
  • That will in turn worsen inflation in France and put pressure on the government to apply the brakes to the economy. (csmonitor.com)
  • The new service was developed over the past year in response to increasing demand for French courses - which the government expects to grow even more in the coming months and years due to Bill 96. (radio-canada.ca)
  • In addition, the more rapid growth of the French economy will draw in more imports. (csmonitor.com)
  • In addition, their rules for non-working days are different from the rest of Canada and reflect their long standing tradition of Roman Catholicism. (lovetoknow.com)
  • French retailer Carrefour, active in China since 1995, has sold 80 per cent of its Chinese operations to Alibaba-backed retailer Suning.com for US$705 million, and indicated it may sell the remaining 20 per cent in the coming years. (asiapacific.ca)