Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)I am one of those...
https://friendica.myplace.social/display/7f8b67c3-6269-c819-8495-73e366187753
Root MooseOne of my biggest regrets as an anglo Canadian...
Never 'getting serious' about learning French. I can kinda muddle here and there.
I'm old - my brane pan is not as plastic as it once was - kind of broken in some respects.
If you are able, learn 'la belle langue'. Worth doing. I'll continue to struggle in my way - you can do better than me.
K.R. ParadisThis movie has been on my list but I haven’t gotten to it yet.
https://www.myfrenchcanadianfamily.com/post/mon-oncle-antoine-adding-our-movie-to-the-discussion
Mon Oncle Antoine: Adding Our Movie to the Discussion
In recent years, a new ritual has been taking place during the holiday season: the discussion about whether or not a movie taking place at Christmas can be considered a Christmas Movie. Whether we believe that to be the case or not, it gives us a chance to add a movie about our heritage to the discussion. Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine put rural Quebec’s daily life on the big screen for the first time, and covered a range of topics that defined an era. The issues of that era had influenced sou
YYYY in Canada1810 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
"Educated" French Canadians have superior French "if we except the #Anglicisms which have been unavoidably interwoven with the language since the conquest"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660844
pg. 197 (third column top)
#FrenchCanadian #FrenchLanguage #QuebecHistory
See also: French Language in Canada - The French Spoken in Canada
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/french-language
1810 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
A #Massachusetts legislature committee says, with territory "already too extensive," the U.S. should not take Canada, "this province of Frenchmen"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269247
pg. 1 (2nd column)
WikiTreeJoin us in 2 weeks #WikiTreeSymposium2025!
🇨🇦 Kathryn Lake Hogan presents "Say What? Strategies for Translating French-Canadian Records" at 11:00 AM ET
Register Today! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1945098
#CollaborativeGenealogy #FrenchCanadian
Ray Buffer
Genealogy of the new pope shows him as a true American with many ethnicities in his heritage.
This includes French Canadian.
https://lettersfromleo.substack.com/p/new-the-popes-black-roots-what-henry
BC BY-NC-SAVelocipede – Hunt The Squirrel
#Belfast #FiddleTunes #Folk #FrenchCanadian #Irish #NewEngland #OldTime #Quebecois #Scandinavian #Traditional #Maine
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://velocipedemusic.bandcamp.com/album/hunt-the-squirrel
#Belfast #FiddleTunes #Folk #FrenchCanadian #Irish #NewEngland #OldTime #Quebecois #Scandinavian #Traditional #Maine
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://velocipedemusic.bandcamp.com/album/hunt-the-squirrel
Hunt The Squirrel, by Velocipede
15 track album
StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎I react to #LeoMajor, a #French-Canadian soldier who SINGLE-HANDEDLY Liberated a #Dutch Town with one eye! As an #American, this will be my first time learning about this heroic #Canadian soldier and his legendary story, which almost seems mythical!" - #StracViews #ElbowsUp
youtu.be/ODrBGdGESd0?...
The One-eyed Scout Who Liberat...
The One-eyed Scout Who Liberat...