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Director’s Message – November 2018

Guy Rodgers with Mélanie Joly (Minister of Tourism, Official languages and La Francophonie) A couple of years ago, I was invited to join the board of le Salon du Livre de Montréal, which was seeking to become more diverse and inclusive.…
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Director’s Message – October 2018

From Left to Right: Isabelle Shi, Amy Macdonald, Jennifer Broydell, Sufia Duez, Emily Enhorning, and Guy Rodgers at ELAN's 14th AGM. Photo by: Nasuna Stuart-Ulin.   ELAN has an excellent board of directors that takes its responsibilities…
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Director’s Message – September 2018

Guy Rodgers with Board Members Bettina Forget and Kristelle Holliday presenting at ELAN's 14th AGM. Photo by: Nasuna Stuart-Ulin It was a pleasure to see so many of you at ELAN’s 14th Annual General Meeting on August 27th. For those who…
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Director’s Message – August 2018

Guy Rodgers presenting a Minute Market Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin August brings us the second wave of Arts Alive! Québec with simultaneous weekends in Quebec City at the Morrin Centre (August 3 - 4), and in Knowlton (August 3 - 5). ELAN’s…
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Director’s Message – July 2018

Guy Rodgers with Patrick Lloyd Brennan, Managing Director of Quebec Drama Federation Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin July is a month for the great outdoors, staycations, or whatever form of great escape is most therapeutic for you. It is also…
Director's Message June 2018
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Director’s Message – June 2018

Guy Rodgers with visual artists based in West Island. Photo by Kinga Michalska Summer is upon us and ELAN’s first Arts Alive! Québec 2018 festival takes place in Hudson this weekend. Hudson is a beautiful town full of talented artists,…
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Director’s Message – March 2018

Photo by Kinga Michalska Should Télé-Québec produce and broadcast stories about Quebec’s English-speaking citizens?  That is the question we asked ourselves as the licence for Quebec’s educational TV came up for renewal at the CRTC…
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Director’s Message: September 2017

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.

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