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This is a list of francophone communities in Alberta. Municipalities with a high percentage of French -speakers in the Canadian province of Alberta are listed. The provincial average of Albertans whose mother tongue is French is 1.5%, with a total of 64,855 people in Alberta who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021.
In many countries around the world, students are educated in two or more languages: often all students learn at least one foreign language, perhaps the language of a former colonizer (e.g. French in West Africa, English in South Asia, etc.); commonly minorities learn the majority language, often this is required by law or is simply thought of as an economic necessity; and occasionally two or ...
This includes all schools run by a Francophone (French language) school district, and all schools with a full French immersion program. It doesn't include schools which happen to offer French as a second language (since nearly all Alberta schools do that).
In 1997, the province signed the first Canada-Alberta Agreement on French Language Services, which is a joint federal-provincial fund aimed at funding French language services in the province. In 1999, the government of Alberta created the position of Francophone Secretariat to act as a liaison between the Franco-Albertan community and the ...
McKernan School was opened in 1951 and offers both English and French immersion programs from kindergarten to Grade 9. As well, it is the only Edmonton Public school to offer a late French immersion program beginning in Grade 7, and the only Edmonton Public school to offer a Spanish bilingual program from Grade 7 to 9.
This trend continued to the creation of the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, and beyond. By the time Alberta was made a province in 1905, the French language had been dealt a series of aggressive blows, and the use of French in government, the courts and schools was made illegal. —
The Calgary French School (the predecessor to the Calgary French and International School) was founded after the passing of the Official Languages Act in September 1969. Many mothers had practiced French on their own, and sought to establish an educational institution that could teach young in an all-French environment, called French immersion .
The school is named after Joseph Henri Picard, a francophone politician from Edmonton.It was officially opened on September 9, 1973 at a cost of $1.2 million. The school was built to consolidate the students previously attending l'Académie Assomption, a private girls school originally run by the Sisters of the Assumption, and College St. Jean for boys into a co-ed environment.