Belatedly, French Canadians fully realized that next door, English-speaking Ontario had become the economic heart of Canada while Quebec remained less developed, its natural resources controlled by ...

NOW that I am an American, with my racial background lost in the great melting pot, my way is untrammelled and forthright, but during the first twenty-seven years of my life, when I was a Nova Scotian ...

Ever since France ceded Canada to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French-speaking province of Quebec has felt itself unhappily isolated. Québecois complain that they are treated as ...

I recently wrote about my childhood in Canada in the context of places where hockey players come from. My sister Dixie McIlwraith has her own memories, much different from mine, and after listening to ...

Richards Motel colorfully sits on the side of U.S. 1 and Plunkett Street in East Hollywood. About a month ago, we brought you a story about the tight-knit French-Canadian community that returns for ...

The number of French students in Canada has increased fivefold in 20 years, climbing from around 5,000 in 2,000 to 23,850 in 2023. That makes them the fifth most represented nationality among ...

In Lewiston, Maine, more people than ever are showing up at the Franco Center for La Rencontre, a monthly luncheon that encourages French conversation. Of the 200 people who come to break bread ...

AMERICANS, or as some Canadians choose to call them, Usonians, are sometimes surprised when they come to visit or to live in Canada that Canadians are so different from themselves. They expect French ...

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Researchers at McGill University have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French‑Canadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite ...