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The term Franco-Ontarian has two related usages, which overlap closely but are not identical: it may refer to francophone residents of Ontario, regardless of their ethnicity or place of birth, or to people of French Canadian ancestry born in Ontario, regardless of their primary language or current place of residence.
Articles primarily about the history of the Franco-Ontarian community of the Canadian province of Ontario. Pages in category "Franco-Ontarian history" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Estelle Beauchamp, writer; Érik Bédard, former starting pitcher for 6 teams in Major League Baseball; Mauril Bélanger, federal Member of Parliament; Napoléon Belcourt, Speaker of the House of Commons (1904–1905)
The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. The majority of Franco-Ontarians in Ontario live in eastern and northeastern Ontario. While most communities in these areas have sizeable French minorities, several ...
Nous Sommes, Nous Serons ("We are, we will be") is a slogan often used by the Franco-Ontarian community in Canada. [1] Signifying that the Franco-Ontarian community has long existed in Ontario, continues to exist, and will exist in the future, it has especially been used as a symbol of resistance against attempts to suppress the French language in Ontario.
It was widely reported as the largest protest in Franco-Ontarian history since the protests against Regulation 17 and one of the single largest protests in the history of Ontario. At the protest, a number of speeches were held, with Lalonde stating that: "We have to shout without fear and without hesitation that they cannot touch Montfort.
The Franco-Ontarian flag is a symbol created to represent Franco-Ontarians, reflecting the diverse languages, seasons and people of Ontario. [2] The design consists of two bands of green and white. The left portion has a solid light green background with a white fleur-de-lys in the middle, while the right portion has a solid white background ...
The organization and the Franco-Ontarian community at large faced a serious early crisis when the provincial government adopted Regulation 17 in 1912, effectively banning the teaching of French in schools. The regulation was never fully implemented because of ACFÉO's litigation, and it was eventually repealed in 1927.