Villages et visages

Bourget is a small agricultural village. In this episode, we meet Mrs. Lalonde who tells us about her husband Antonin Lalonde and his work: the Bourget centennial book.

Twenty-five years later, a new meeting with René Fontaine, former sawmill owner and former Minister of Mines and Resources during the David Peterson Liberal era.

The population of Casselman, 85% French-speaking, has quadrupled since 1975. Over the years, the people of Casselman have been enriched by the many cultural influences from here and elsewhere and have become well established in the modern world.

Pierre Bercier discusses agriculture in the St-Isidore region. Around a mouth-watering St-Éloi table provided by Mariette Claude of Domaine des Érables, chatter is flowing; among the guests are a Belgian and a German couple, both local farmers.

The Chauvin family has been established in Pointe-aux-Roches for five generations, handing down the great land from father to son.

In southwestern Ontario, just across from Detroit, lies Pain Court, with 300 years of history, 300 years of Francophonie still fighting to survive.

Since the closure of factories and the deterioration of the St. Lawrence River, Cornwall has been searching for a new solidarity inspired by the memory of its elders and parents.

Alfred is a small village in Eastern Ontario well known for its reform school, which has become the only agricultural college of its kind in the country, and also for its vast 9,000-acre peat bog teeming with ecological treasures.

A revealing episode on the economic, social, cultural and everyday health of Sudbury's Francophones, who have taken root around the famous Moulin à Fleur district.

Francophone bastion of the '70s, incubator of Franco-Ontarian theatricality and creative modernity.

On the banks of the magnificent French River, we step back over 300 years into the history of this wonderful Ontario.

Daniel Marchildon, among others, and Michel Paiement tell us how this land of sand seeks its center, its soul, through a character from a very important legend in this area: that of the wolf!

Hawkesbury, along the Ottawa River, halfway between Ottawa and Montreal, is just beginning to recover from a few hard years of job losses and company closures.