Voisin Canard by the French navy in March 1912 to equip the seaplane tender "La Foudre", the first seaplane carrier in history. A second example was delivered to the Navy in December 1913. Voisin Canard The Voisin Canard was an aircraft developed by Voisin brothers during 1910 and first flown early in 1911. It was named the "Canard" because of the resemblance of its forward fuselage to that of a duck's long neck while in flight. It was originally flown as a landplane: with the addition of floats it became one of the first seaplanes used by the French Navy. The Canard
River Canard, Ontario In 1910 he had replaced the bilingual Holy Names Sisters with the English-speaking Ursulines at a Windsor school. In 1917, prior to the government issuing Regulation 17, the Ursulines dropped French instruction from three Windsor separate schools (operated by Catholics). French-speaking parents were very upset. Dissension lasted for more than a decade, and was part of what has been a continuing struggle by ethnic and nationalist French in Canada to preserve their language use and its status. River Canard, Ontario River Canard is a hamlet of roughly 500 people in the northern part of Amherstburg, Ontario and the southern part