1941: Adjusting the Aim
Father Baudoux travels to Quebec en September 1940. He represents the ANO at the annual meeting of the Comité permanent de la survivance française en Amérique. He stops off in Montreal, where he meets first with someone he doesn't know, Arthur Dupont, whose name he obtained through the Order of Jacques Cartier. He is a business manager at CBC/Radio-Canada. He doesn't think that French-Canadians in the West will win their case in the end. So why not look for another solution to the problem? He suggests setting up private French stations in the West.
Maurice Baudoux also meets with Augustin Frigon, assistant director at CBC/Radio-Canada. On the way to Quebec with his friend Raymond Denis, Father Baudoux tells him about his conversations (audio). A few months later he meets Émile Couture in Winnipeg, who has been asked by CBC/Radio-Canada “to find out the lay of the land in the West for French-Canadians to establish three private stations”. Mr. Couture mentions possible support from CBC/Radio-Canada for the project. On August 15, 1941, the priest from Prud'homme invites his ANO colleagues to his home to discuss the radio issue. Radio-Ouest-Française (French West Radio) is born at this meeting, as is the firm decision by the Francophone leaders in the three provinces to build their own radio stations.
Archives: a dream takes shape
Father Baudoux writes a confidential paper about his interviews with Mr. Morin, Mr. Frigon and Mr. Dupont in Montreal, September 27, 1940
Father Maurice Baudoux reports on his discussions with Mr. Émile Couture in Winnipeg on 28, 29 et 30 May 1941, June 30, 1940
Father Maurice Baudoux remembers the birth of Radio-Ouest-Française.
Antonio de Margerie explains how Radio-Ouest-Française becomes the catalyst for the project of building private French stations in the West.
Archives: a dream takes shape
Father Baudoux writes a confidential paper about his interviews with Mr. Morin, Mr. Frigon and Mr. Dupont in Montreal, September 27, 1940
Father Maurice Baudoux reports on his discussions with Mr. Émile Couture in Winnipeg on 28, 29 et 30 May 1941, June 30, 1940
Father Maurice Baudoux remembers the birth of Radio-Ouest-Française.
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Antonio de Margerie explains how Radio-Ouest-Française becomes the catalyst for the project of building private French stations in the West.
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