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Kirkland Lake

S3 E3
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2007

We are at Marcel and Cécile Joliat's house. It is time for Sunday brunch. We attend a choir practice where seniors, including Marcel Joliat, and young people are rehearsing with Dolores Bond for their upcoming Christmas concert. Marcel Joliat is in his woodworking shop, working on wood to, as he says, 'spend the long winter months pleasantly'. We are at Jean Vanier School and follow Jean-Marie Messier through a typical day as a school principal. He has had a career as a teacher and now heads this brand new French high school. Rose Lyne d'Aoust and her husband Jean-Marie Messier are enjoying a beautiful outdoor day to recharge their batteries and talk about their respective jobs. We are on the island where the 'Beaver House' is established, a native settlement, very close to Kirkland Lake, where people have adopted a lifestyle that allows them to keep in touch with certain ancestral traditions. Caroll and Colette Jacques, who are Métis, were invited to the island for a day of festivities on Thanksgiving Day.

Levels:
Secondary Grade 10 Grade 12 Grade 9 Grade 11 Elementary Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 6 Grade 5
Subjects:
Social Sciences and Humanities Canadian and World Studies Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
Skills:
Communication Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Themes:
Franco-Ontarian Culture Indigenous Perspectives
French level:
B1: Threshold Independent User (B1 - B2) B2: Vantage
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E1 : Chelmsford

27min50s
Jacques Trottier remembers the good times he had in Chelmsford. Berthe Trottier feels that Chelmsford has changed a lot and that instead of encouraging small family businesses, people prefer to go shopping in Sudbury and even Toronto. Emile Mainville in his potato field preparing for harvest. Lynn Mainville and her children, on this…
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E2 : Field

27min50s
Mrs. Lafond talks about Field's situation over the past thirty years as a demolition rather than an evolution, especially since the 1979 flood and the sale of the mill. At Notre Dame Church, she and parish priest Jean-Claude Lefebvre prepare for a naming ceremony. At the general store, Roger Lafond and the people who accompany…
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E3 : Kirkland Lake

27min50s
We are at Marcel and Cécile Joliat's house. It is time for Sunday brunch. We attend a choir practice where seniors, including Marcel Joliat, and young people are rehearsing with Dolores Bond for their upcoming Christmas concert. Marcel Joliat is in his woodworking shop, working on wood to, as he says, 'spend the long winter…
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E4 : Monetville

28min50s
As the sun rises, Michel Monette sits on his dock and sips his first coffee of the day. Later, in a boat with him, we sail along the banks of what was once his father's land. At the French River High School, Françoise Carrière is rehearsing with her students. Alain and Marc Séguin as well as their children are busy with their…
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E5 : Cochrane

29min30s
We are in a van with Donald Génier, on our way to the village of Génier, founded by his grandfather at the beginning of the twentieth century. Donald takes the opportunity to point out the changes that have taken place in the area. He says that the quality of life in Cochrane has improved in the last decade. We are in the music class…
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E6 : Verner

27min50s
Since the 1970s, the village of Verner, like so many others in the Lake Nipissing area, has undergone many changes. One of these changes, the phenomenon of municipal consolidation, has threatened the integrity of the village and the ties that bind the people who live there. Nevertheless, the Verner people are intimately connected to…
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E7 : Moonbeam

27min50s
Alain Léonard works in the garden, the same one that his grandfather Ernest Léonard liked to maintain. He runs the grocery store. Pierre Brunelle is riding his bike on the Moonbeam trails, an activity he does every day to decompress from work, then we see him in front of his house overlooking Lake Rémi. A place that lends itself to…
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E8 : Bonfield

29min31s
It is the evening, after supper. Michel Hotte and Colette Champagne are making music together. Michel Hotte, in his little wood workshop, is applying a varnish on a cane he just finished. Today, Denis Raymond is cutting firewood, his reserve for the next few months during which the family and the village will be under the snow braving…
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E9 : Lavigne

28min50s
On the lake, by boat, with Marcelin Arbour and his brother Victor, we see a string of cottages along the shoreline, where once ploughed land and cultivated fields stretched as far as the eye could see. Mr. Arbour says that the population has changed a lot, but has not increased that much, and that during the summer it doubles with…
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E10 : Val Rita

27min50s
From the first hour of the day at the Murray OK Tire garage, Réjean Murray and his two brothers Martin and Justin have their morning coffee with their employees and discuss the distribution of tasks for the day. Then they tell us about their village and what they like best about it. We are at Christiane Potvin's house in the…
Levels:
Secondary Grade 10 Grade 12 Grade 9 Grade 11 Elementary Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 6 Grade 5
Subjects:
Social Sciences and Humanities Canadian and World Studies Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
Skills:
Communication Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Themes:
Franco-Ontarian Culture Indigenous Perspectives
French level:
B1: Threshold Independent User (B1 - B2) B2: Vantage