December 2020

Participate in Our 2020 Holiday Video!

Help us spread the cheer as we reach the end of 2020 (I banish thee!) We know it has been an especially trying year, for some more than others. We want to end the year on an optimistic note -- one that serves as a reminder that we are a community…

Director’s Message, News, Project News, Selfies, SENIORS

Director’s Message – December, 2020

Guy Rodgers with Rob Lutes filming for We're All In This Together SENIORS Project Photo by: Bobbi-Jo Hart This has been a grindingly tough year, and few of us will be unhappy to see 2020 vanish in the rear-view mirror. Vaccines…

News, Project News, SENIORS

SENIORS project: We’re All in This Together

The first two episodes of We're All in This Together were filmed in the last week of November and will soon be on-line at ELAN’s new YouTube channel. The opening episode is about baking holiday cookies and the second episode is a Holiday Concert…

News, Project News, Selfies

SELFIES – December, 2020

ELAN is scheduling six Discussion Groups about the complex identities within Quebec’s English-speaking communities and our sense of belonging. Each Discussion Group brings together people whose families arrived in Quebec during the same period…

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.