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The First Congress on the French Language in Canada ( Premier Congrès de la langue française au Canada) was held at Université Laval in Quebec City from June 24 to June 30, 1912. Its stated objective was to "examine the questions raised by the defence, the culture and the development of the French language and literature in Canada.
Formerly called. Association of Universities of the Canadian Francophonie. Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie (known by the acronym ACUFC for its French name, " Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne ") is an association of community colleges and universities in minority ...
AFO, or Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario ( Francophone Assembly of Ontario) is a Canadian organization which coordinates the political and cultural activities of the Franco-Ontarian community. The organization was created in 1910 as the Association canadienne-française d'Éducation de l'Ontario ( ACFÉO) to lobby for French language ...
International Francophonie Day ( French: Journée internationale de la Francophonie) is observed within the International Organization of La Francophonie 's 77 member states every March 20 to celebrate the French language and Francophone culture. [1] There are over 369 million French speakers on Earth. Created in 1988, the date celebrates the ...
The primary cultural organization of the Franco-Ontarian community is the Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario, or AFO, which coordinates many of the community's cultural and political activities. Franco-Ontarians retain many cultural traditions from their French Canadian ancestry.
The First Congress on the French Language in Canada ( French: Premier Congrès de la langue française au Canada) was held in Quebec City from June 24 to June 30, 1912. Its stated objective was to "examine the questions raised by the defence, the culture and the development of the French language and literature in Canada.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [3] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [4]) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion ...
The late 2010s and early 2020s also brought a number of major political moments for Canadian francophonie, such as the 2018 Franco-Ontarian Black Thursday, debates on the modernisation of the federal Official Languages Act, and the ascension of Blaine Higgs, a former anti-bilingualism activist, to the Premiership of New Brunswick.