One 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.
This 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
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
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"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
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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)
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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
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My Mom was #frenchcanadian #metis, but loved all things #irish. She played #clancybrothers all the time, especially the really political stuff.
Apparently, in Kindergarten, we were learning "The Ants Go Marching" and I informed the teacher that the lyrics were wrong.
I gave forth with this:
"With your guns and drums and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo...
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye."
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