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J 26 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, July 14, 1960 {der acceptance of French cul-| "there was only I'Alliance Fran- things French has changed into pared with the other six classes. dent a better grounding. trouble in his other subjects." ture. Among them are the grow. czise and' that was an organiza- a hunger for greater kmowledee ~ Of the six 'studying French, "When we decided fo initiate pr MacKi id he th of bilingualism--he figures Eng- tion only for the intellect." of them was echoed by Dr. AR. three are doing so by means of the experiment, we told the par- Ir. VatR Inno], 83 he { ought 'LANGUAGE OF THE HEART' lish is the mother tongue of about| "It took me a week just to find MacKinnon, research director of films and three by oral instruc- ents we couldn't promise any it was a clear indication of the {half those attending revel Mavs when and where it held its meet-/the Toronto board of education: tion from the teacher thii, in the way of improved growth of interest in French on |--an- e increasing participa- ings "Childr " GRR s e part of Ss ov {tion of Torontonians in exchange Since the War, immigration of LOWER GRADES salle a en yore Sucoutaged 10 standing. We sent out Solon. wi 38 - Varents Jver{the programs between Ontario and Europeans "of French expres- Last year the board began an were not so inclined to self-con- parents of the children chosen Both he and Mrs. Bryan felt renc 00S & Quebec. sion" had created an awareness experiment with French - lan- sciousness," Dr. MacKinnon Would object to their children de- one reason behind the surge of He noted that Alliance Canadi- of things cultural in Toronto. |guage instruction involving nine said. "Also, the semi - darkened vofing 120 minutes a week to the interest in French culture, in |enne, an organization devoted to, 'And Canadian men (overseas classes in four Toronto schools. roo:n seemed to help." experiment deed, in culture of all kinds, bet! t er understanding between quring the Second World War Six Grade VII classes began Aim of the experiment is to see. The result, in his opinion. was migh. be that today's parenis English- and French - speaking jearned much. You can't take studying French 120° minutes a whether an earlier introduction "amazing." grev. up in a village atmosphere _ anadians, has a Torontonian as culture--a word 1 hate--like an week. The other three classes to the language--when scholastic! '"'Out of the 260 asked, we had only to find themselves living in its national president. aspirin. i must grow. were given no French instruction pressure is not as heavy as in only one refusal--and she fell heria 'cosmopolitan city. And they In Upper Canada By BRUCE LEVETT Canadian Press Staff Writer TORONTO (CP)--In 1828 there were only four public school stu- dents studying French in Upper Canada. By 1838 there were none Yet 120 years later, the lan- guage is being taught at the Grade 1X level in all schools and in Toronto, an experimental plan is under way to push back the introduction to the 'language of the heart" into earlier grades An even exclusive boys' school which has taught French since 1830. in the early days gave it only a fraction of the time de voted to Greek and Latin And another college of second- ary-school rank taught the lan- guage in its "female depart ment" where it was offered as a package deal with "music drawing and embroidery." ORANGE STRONGHOLD For Upper Canada. which be- came Ontario, was the North American stronghold of the Loyal Orange Lodge. whose platform was ! Defence of Protestant and the unity of the one school, one Christianity British Empire fla- one language Toronto, as the capital of On- tario and the heartland of Or- angeism. fought the spread of French culture possibly harder than any other area in the coun- try As late as 1910, when Sir Wil frid Laurier was saying "English is the language of business French is that of the heart," the Toronto board of education was passing a unanimous resolution asking the provincial government to preserve the public schoo' system from the disinte- grating influence of the dual lan- guage in such institutions," and urging total prohibition of French - language instruction in Ontario schools FRENCH CULTURE Today, in addition to the cir- culation of magazines and news- payers from France and French- Canada in the city, Toronto has its own monthly newspaper--Les Nouvelles Francaises with a press run of about 5.000, which state "lects a SAVE AT AL'S BI-RITF. _ a COLEMAN LANTERNS A must for campers. 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