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Efforts to establish a Francophone university in Central and Southwestern Ontario date back to the 1970s and the demands gained political traction in the 2010s with several Franco-Ontarian groups, including the Francophone Assembly of Ontario, releasing a report that recommended the creation of a Francophone university within that region on 3 October 2014. [7]
Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie (known by the acronym ACUFC for its French name, "Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne") is an association of community colleges and universities in minority francophone communities in Canada, through cooperation between its member institutions.
Most French-speaking universities are located in Quebec, though several institutions outside the province are either francophone or bilingual. 1.8 million students are enrolled in university. [3] Programs are offered to graduating high school students through choice; however, students must maintain specific entering averages, which generally ...
This category is for colleges and universities in Canada outside of Quebec that offer French as the primary language of instruction for some or all students. It does not include schools which happen to offer French as a second language (since that is the norm).
Laurentian's historical roots lie in the Roman Catholic church. [10] The Collège du Sacré-Coeur was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1913. According to a plaque at the entrance to the R. D. Parker Building, the school began granting degrees in 1957 as the University of Sudbury.
Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française (AUPELF), [4] the AUF is a multilateral institution supporting co-operation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and institutions.
Université de Hearst (formerly Collège universitaire de Hearst) is a public French-language university with its main campus in Hearst, Ontario, Canada. The university has additional campuses in Timmins and Kapuskasing. For most of its history, Hearst was an affiliated school of Laurentian University in Sudbury.
The late 1960s saw a schism form between the francophones in Quebec, and the other francophone communities of Canada, notably the francophones in Ontario. The emergence of a separate québécois identity during the Quiet Revolution ; also resulted in the development of a unique Franco-Ontarian identity, with francophones in Ontario forced to re ...