An Act to promote the French language in Québec An Act to promote the French language in Québec Bill 63, more formally known as the "Loi pour promouvoir la langue française au Québec" (or "Law to promote the French language in Quebec"), was a language law passed in 1969 in the Canadian province of Quebec. In the 1960s, the government of the Province of Quebec commissioned a report about the state of the French language in Quebec. The report showed that in some areas of the province residents who spoke only French were having difficulty finding employment and conducting everyday business. As a result, plans were begun to form
History of the Canadian Army by under-funding by Ottawa in peace-time did not exist. Unlike the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force, whose personnel were overwhelmingly English-Canadians and where English was the sole language of command, the Canadian Army was the only service that made some allowance for French-Canadians. In 1952, the Army opened the Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean to train French-Canadian officer candidates in French (previously all officer candidates had been trained in English at the Royal Military College). However, the Canadian Army was still a mostly English-speaking institution in the 1950s with the Royal 22 Régiment and the 8th