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La Cité des Rocheuses is a non-profit French-speaking association located in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, created in 1996 under the name of Société du Center Scolaire Communautaire de Calgary.

Mainly anglophone, Alberta also has a large population whose French is their mother tongue. The 2006 census estimates this population at over sixty thousand people. As for people able to speak French, the census estimates their number at more than two hundred thousand. However, this population evolves in a dispersed manner within the English-speaking majority, and community investment remains weak in the end. The fragmentation of the Francophone community into multiple partner associations, but rivals in fact, has contributed to weakening the scope of their unifying message. The City of the Rockies therefore wishes to register with the avant-garde of the Alberta Francophonie in order to acquire greater media reach and increase the number of Francophones likely to be interested in community events in Alberta. One of the vectors of this objective is the existence of an article dedicated to the association on Wikipedia.

The City of the Rockies promotes cultural enrichment and intercultural and multidisciplinary dialogues. Its main mission is to provide a gathering place for the general public, to broadcast an artistic, cultural and community program in French that meets the needs and desires of Francophones and Francophiles in the Calgary region, paying particular attention to young people.

The association coordinates and presents numerous cultural, artistic and educational events for the community and youth of the Calgary region, such as film screenings, conferences and seminars, intercultural events, theatrical performances, concerts. and festivals in French and English. Many French-speaking artists, such as Ariane Moffatt, Cécile Doo-Kingué, Louis-José Houde or Lisa Leblanc, gave performances at the Cité.

Since July 4, 2017, the Cité des Rocheuses opened a new reception center for Francophone immigrants arriving in Calgary.

List of organizations present in the cultural and community center of the City des Rocheuses:


 * La Cité des Rocheuses

Diffuse an artistic and cultural program, organize community activities and manage services in French.

Support newcomers as well as all immigrant communities in their settlement procedures.

Its mission is to provide high-quality daycare services to children of French-speaking families in the Calgary region. These services are aimed at the intellectual, emotional, social and physical development of the child while developing their identity as a French-speaking person adapted to their environment.

The mission of the Francophone reception center is to support newcomers and all immigrant communities in their settlement procedures.


 * La Société de la petite enfance et de la famille du Sud de l'Alberta

Seeks to implement services and establish close partnerships with related organizations in the fields of education, health, and legal and social services, in order to offer support in the following areas: development of children, family support, information, education within the family

Le CRF de Calgary vous propose d'emprunter jeux, jouets, DVD, livres en français.


 * La Cité des Rocheuses, entrevue radiophonique à l'émission Contact de La Première Chaîne du 29 mai 1988
 * Cité des Rocheuses, entrevue radiophonique à l'émission La Croisée de La Première Chaîne du 6 septembre 2012
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