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Franco-manitoban




Franco-Manitobans are a community of French -speaking people living in Manitoba . The community is centred primarily in Saint Boniface , an area of Winnipeg , although there are smaller numbers of franco-manitobans living throughout the province as well.

Notable Franco-Manitobans include writer Gabrielle Roy , singer-songwriter Daniel Lavoie , federal Members of Parliament Ronald Duhamel and Raymond Simard , provincial MLA s Neil Gaudry and Kevin Lamoureux , member of the Canadian Senate Maria Chaput , country singer Lucille Starr and cellist Michael Nicolas .

The province's primary French languauge post-secondary educational institution is le Collège Universitaire De Saint-Boniface located in Saint Boniface.

See also French Canadian .


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