00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.851523 CaOODSP 20221107154409 cr ||||||||||| 170209s2016 qucadb #obs f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn-nu SF31-134/13-2016E-PDF The French presence in Nunavut [electronic resource]. [Gatineau, QC?] : Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, [2016?]. [1] p. : ill., graphs, maps Title from caption. Issued also in French under title: Le fait français au Nunavut. Includes bibliographical references. "The first Francophones to come to the area that would become Nunavut were members of whaling crews in the 1800s. In the 1970s, the federal government opened regional offices with bilingual staff in Frobisher Bay. In 1981, the organization that is now the Association des francophones du Nunavut was founded. The first French mother tongue education program started in 1993 (Grade 1 to 6). Nunavut was created in 1999. Nunavut’s only French-language school was opened in 2001. The Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut was created in 2004"--History, p. [1]. gccst Francophonie gccst Statistics gccst Territories Canada. Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. Le fait français au Nunavut (CaOODSP)9.851526 PDF 1.09 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/clo-ocol/SF31-134-13-2016-eng.pdf