Pointe-aux-Roches

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. We also meet Carole Doran who talks about her childhood memories of her father's farm and her business as a horticulturist. We also meet some of the wineries of…

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. Around Hearst, it is the immensity of the forest that speaks to us: Yvon Sévigny spends his days in his skidder, returning home only on weekends; Maurice Lemieux is an old &…

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. But many villagers feel that the integrity of the village and its French character have…

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.

In southwestern Ontario, just across from Detroit, lies Pain Court, with 300 years of history, 300 years of Francophonie still fighting to survive. On the menu: a wise man, Edmond Chauvin, who eats dinner every night at the home of one of his former students; the Lozon's party, the fiddler who loves his family and his family'…

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. The Renaissance group, led by Chuck Charlebois, has undertaken to revitalize an entire sector of the city, with the goal of creating new ambitions, new…

Alfred is a small village well known in Eastern Ontario because of its reformatory school, which became the only agricultural college in the country, and also because of its immense 9000 acres peat bog filled with ecological treasures. It is not for nothing that Jean Poirier, the former 'green' MPP of the area, nicknamed it …

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 wild and wonderful Ontario. The document could be entitled 'Chronicle of a disappearing village'. But never mind! People like Claude Mayer, Armande Monette-Pitre, René Lahaie and many other descendants of explorers and valiant…

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. A man from Montreal came to live there and is now the mayor. Where is the city going? Where is it headed? Are the values of the citizens the same as they were 25 years ago? And…