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Ottawa – Mayor Jim Watson and Ward Councillor Stephen Blais presented a commemorative street sign to the family of Pierre Esdras Terrien, one of the founders of LeDroit and a lifelong advocate for French-language and Francophone cultural rights in Eastern Ontario, at the start of today’s City Council meeting.
In recognition of Mr. Terrien’s contributions to Franco-Ontarian culture, the City of Ottawa has named a street in the new Cardinal Creek Village community, which is east of Trim Road and spans Highway 174, “Avenue Esdras-Terrien / Esdras-Terrien Avenue”.
Mr. Terrien served as Chair of the Board, Manager and Treasurer of LeDroit for over 30 years. In a time before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the newspaper was founded as a platform for Francophones to fight Regulation 17, an Ontario provincial law enacted in 1913 that restricted the use of French and required children to be educated in English only,
As other avenues to support Francophone rights, Mr. Terrien helped found the Association canadienne française d’éducation de l’Ontario — the forerunner of today’s Association canadienne française de l’Ontario — and the Ordre de Jacques Cartier.
Mr. Terrien (1876-1960) was born in Nicolet, Québec but lived most of his life on Besserer Street in Lowertown. He often went to Parliament to listen to the oratory of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Henri Bourassa and to raise awareness among Francophone politicians of the need for Francophone channels of communication, including a French-language daily newspaper in Ottawa.
Of the contributions of Mr. Terrien and his contemporaries, LeDroit said: “… that generation of French-Canadians ensured the survival of the French language in Ontario by resisting pressure from the provincial government to assimilate, as well as the indifference of the federal government at the turn of the last century. Without them, we would probably not have this newspaper in our hands, and Francophone Ontario might now resemble…a Louisiana of the north.”
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In recognition of Mr. Terrien’s contributions to Franco-Ontarian culture, the City of Ottawa has named a street in the new Cardinal Creek Village community, which is east of Trim Road and spans Highway 174, “Avenue Esdras-Terrien / Esdras-Terrien Avenue”.
Mr. Terrien served as Chair of the Board, Manager and Treasurer of LeDroit for over 30 years. In a time before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the newspaper was founded as a platform for Francophones to fight Regulation 17, an Ontario provincial law enacted in 1913 that restricted the use of French and required children to be educated in English only,
As other avenues to support Francophone rights, Mr. Terrien helped found the Association canadienne française d’éducation de l’Ontario — the forerunner of today’s Association canadienne française de l’Ontario — and the Ordre de Jacques Cartier.
Mr. Terrien (1876-1960) was born in Nicolet, Québec but lived most of his life on Besserer Street in Lowertown. He often went to Parliament to listen to the oratory of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Henri Bourassa and to raise awareness among Francophone politicians of the need for Francophone channels of communication, including a French-language daily newspaper in Ottawa.
Of the contributions of Mr. Terrien and his contemporaries, LeDroit said: “… that generation of French-Canadians ensured the survival of the French language in Ontario by resisting pressure from the provincial government to assimilate, as well as the indifference of the federal government at the turn of the last century. Without them, we would probably not have this newspaper in our hands, and Francophone Ontario might now resemble…a Louisiana of the north.”
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