{"id":9071,"date":"2022-01-31T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&p=9071"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:34:53","slug":"how-to-be-french-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/how-to-be-french-in-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be French in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a great video series about the Francophone community in Alberta this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHow to be French in Alberta” is a documentary series filmed primarily in French to reach audiences both inside and outside the Francophone community.<\/span> It was produced by Telus and is available for free on YouTube. There\u2019s a companion series called \u201cHow to be French in British Columbia,\u201d which I will write about next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the things I liked about the series is how the producers centred each short episode around one theme.<\/span> The first episode is called How To Be French: En Alberta – <\/span>Ep1 – The Beginnings<\/span><\/a>, and it features eight older French speakers living in Alberta. They speak about how they or their families arrived in the province, a bit about their lives, the Francophone communities that they found\/made, and their hopes for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ep2 – The Restaurant<\/span><\/a> is centred around a restaurant called Chartier in the heart of Beaumont, Alberta, a community founded by French settlers.<\/span> The video takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and homes of its owners Sylvia and Darren Cheverie. <\/span>Ep3 – The Politician<\/span><\/a> introduces us to Randy Boissonnault, a Member of Parliament from Morinville, Alberta. In <\/span>Ep4 – The Road Trip<\/span><\/a> we take a road trip through the Rocky Mountains with four young francophones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ep5 – The Artist<\/span><\/a> takes us to the studio of Patrick Ares-Pilon, a multidisciplinary artist living in Edmonton.<\/span> His specialty is stereoscopic photography. <\/span>Ep6 – The Arrival<\/span><\/a> focuses on how immigration has expanded the francophone community in Alberta<\/span> in a beautiful way. In <\/span>Ep7 – The Barber<\/span><\/a> we meet a barber named Lison Laverdi\u00e8re, originally from Abitibi, who now lives in Grande Prairie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ep8 – The Principal<\/span><\/a> describes the ongoing fight for an education system that will safeguard French language and culture in Alberta.<\/span> Today, l’\u00c9cole Nouvelle-Fronti\u00e8re in Grande Prairie thrives, partly due to its magnetic and energetic principal, Benoit Dub\u00e9. <\/span>Ep9 – The Mechanic<\/span><\/a> focuses on Denis St-Laurent, a friendly car mechanic from Grande Prairie.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ep10 – The Newcomers<\/span><\/a> introduces us to four French-speaking newcomers living in Fort McMurray.<\/span> They share their stories of separation, transition, and resilience as they also recount what they experienced during the devastating wildfire of 2016. We meet Dr. Sonia Thibault in <\/span>Ep11 – The Dentist<\/span><\/a>. Sonia transformed a negative experience with a dentist at a young age into a passion for dental health by becoming a dentist herself. She offers healthcare in French, fulfilling a great community need<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ep12 – The Leader<\/span><\/a> looks at how part-time farmer Linda Beaudet has enriched Grande Prairie’s French immersion community<\/span> by encouraging kids to learn a second language to become good bilingual citizens. Linda emphasises the importance of speaking French in everyday life, not just in the classroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you will check the series out!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/em><\/p>\n

Image: Screenshot, Wided, Ep. 10, How to be French in Alberta.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9073,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[63],"class_list":["post-9071","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}