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The Festival du Voyageur, held annually since 1970 in Saint-Boniface, is a major celebration in the Franco-Manitoban community. [17] Cinémental is an annual French-language film festival, staged at the Centre culturel Franco-Manitobain in Winnipeg. [18]
English: The Franco-American flag with a fleur-de-lis within a white star is the flag of the Assemblée des francophones du Nord-Est who adopted it in 1983. The blue and white are taken from the flags of the U.S., Quebec, Acadia and France. The star represents the U.S. and the fleur-de-lis represents the French culture of the Franco-Americans.
The flag has the city seal emblazoned on quartered background, with each section representing a country that once controlled Detroit.The lower hoist (left) quarter represents France, which founded the fort and settlement in 1701; it has five gold fleurs-de-lis on a white field, imitating the Royal Standard of France.
The earliest recorded "dramatic and literary evening" in Manitoba took place in 1866, and some twenty groups formed and dissolved [2] before Le Cercle Molière was founded on March 8, 1925, by three friends who had worked together on other theatre projects: André Castelein de la Lande (artistic director 1925–27), Raymond Bernier (secretary ...
The Pays d'en Haut (French: [pɛ.i dɑ̃ o]; Upper Country) was a territory of New France covering the regions of North America located west of Montreal.The vast territory included most of the Great Lakes region, expanding west and south over time into the North American continent as the French had explored.
This first of six Monuments de la francophonie d'Ottawa is dedicated to the subject of education. The flag is 5 x 10 m and was raised on a 27 m pole. In 2010, the Ontario government designated September 25 as Franco-Ontarian Day. [7] The date was chosen as it represented the anniversary of the flag.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:56, 1 July 2007: 324 × 216 (10 KB): Himasaram ==Source== Originally uploaded to English Wikipedia at w:Image:Flag of the FrancoTenois.svg Original file history: *<nowiki>08:26, 20 July 2006 . .
Flag of the Franco-Ontarians: A field party per pale, green and white, with a white fleur-de-lys charged in the hoist and a green trillium emblem charged in the fly 1976–present: Flag of the Fransaskois: A yellow field with a green Nordic cross centred towards the upper hoist and a red fleur-de-lis charged in the lower fly 1980–present