Coquitlam's annual Festival du Bois, Canadian Parents for French host an annual French Celebration Week, Francapalooza, a French film festival and French-language youth camps targeting both Francophone and French immersion students. L'Association des Ecrivains de la Colombie Britannique publishes a monthly youth magazine called La Moustique. A French-language theatre group called Théâtre la Seizième is also active in the province as well as the dance troupes Danseurs du Pacifique and Les Cornouillers, and the annual BC Francophone Games. The Conseil Culturel et Artistique de la Colombie Britannique serves as a community organization in the area of arts and culture. The Calendrier francophone de la Colombie-Britannique is the province's online french-language event calendar, which was founded in 2016 by Ashton Ramsay. Media Broadcast Vancouver-based television station CBUFT-DT broadcasts throughout the province via cable, satellite and IPTV, as do French-language radio stations CBUF-FM (Première Chaîne) and, to a lesser extent, CBUX-FM (Espace musique). Other French-language media such as CBC's Ici RDI, TV5 and MusiquePlus are also available but not locally based. TVA's owned-and-operated station in Montreal (CFTM-DT) is also available on basic cable. The Société radio communautaire Victoria, started in 1999 as an offshoot of the Société francophone de Victoria, was incorporated in 2004 and started on-air FM radio programming on 7 November 2007 non-stop as CILS-FM at 107.9 MHz and 250 watts. Print Between 1968 and 1998, the province had a newspaper called Le Soleil de la Colombie-Britannique. A digitized version of the complete run of the newspaper is available online. There is now a newspaper published out of Vancouver called L'Express du Pacifique. Notable Franco-Columbians Richard Stewart, mayor of the city of Coquitlam and former minister. Jean-Luc Bilodeau, actor (born 1990) Sébastien Bordeleau, hockey player (born 1975) Modeste Demers, Canadian missionary and first Bishop of Vancouver Island (1809-1871) David Emerson, politician and former minister (born 1945) Grimes, musician (born 1988) Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, premier of Québec and later Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1829-1908) Georges Payrastre, television producer Denise Savoie, politician (born 1943) Lucille Starr, Franco-Manitoban and resident of Maillardville (born 1938) Emmanuelle Vaugier, actress (born 1976) Françoise Yip, comedian (born 1972 to a Chinese-Canadian father and a Québécois mother) See also French Canadians Acadians, French-speaking Quebecer, Franco-Albertan, Franco-Manitoban, Franco-Newfoundlander, Franco-Ontarian, Fransaskois, Franco-Ténois, Franco-Yukonnais Notes References External links Francophone Affairs Program, Government of British Columbia Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique Le Centre culturel francophone Vancouver Société francophone de