The Adventures of Tintin is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth in 1907, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies, and had been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.
Le Devoir is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910.
Le Journal de Montréal is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by Quebecor Media, and is hence a sister publication of TVA flagship CFTM-DT. It is also Canada's largest tabloid newspaper. Its head office is located on 4545 Frontenac Street in Montreal.
Caillou is an educational children's television series which aired on Teletoon – with the first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997 – until the fourth season. After that, it moved to Treehouse TV for season five. The series finale aired on October 3, 2010. It also aired on PBS and the PBS Kids Channel.
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec or BAnQ is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library. Located at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal, the BAnQ was created by the merging of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec and the Archives nationales du Québec in 2006. The Bibliothèque nationale du Québec had previously merged with the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in 2002.
Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. The program has aired in two distinct editions, the English-language Canada Reads on CBC Radio One, and the French-language Le Combat des livres on Ici Radio-Canada Première.
The Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian illustrator for a children's book written in French. It is one of four children's book awards among the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, one each for writers and illustrators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council.
Kids Can Press is a Canadian-owned publisher of children's books, with a catalogue of nearly 1,000 picture books and 500 e-books, nonfiction, and fiction titles for toddlers to young adults. The Kids Can Press list includes well-known characters such as Franklin the Turtle.
Christine L'Heureux is a Canadian educator, author, and publisher who, with illustrator Hélène Desputeaux, created Caillou, a successful series of children's books that later spawned an animated television series with the same name in 1997.
Stephane Moraille is a Haitian-born singer-songwriter and lawyer from Quebec. She is the granddaughter of the first female lawyer of Haiti, Me Georgette Justin, 1933. She stood for the Bar in 2001, and is currently specializing in media law.
Hélène Desputeaux is a Canadian educator, writer and illustrator from Quebec. With writer Christine L'Heureux, she created and illustrated the character Caillou, who has appeared in a series of children's books and a television series.
Chouette is a French word meaning "owl", specifically owls without visible ear tufts. Owls with visible ear tufts are known as "Hibou".
Lucie Papineau is a writer living in Quebec, Canada who mainly writes children's books.
Annie Baillargeon is a Canadian artist known for photomontage and performance art. A mix of "performance and relational aesthetics with new media art techniques", her work is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Her images have also been exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, and at the Liverpool Biennial. A co-founder of the art action collectives, Les Fermières Obsédées (2001-2015) and Les B.L.U.S.H. (2015-), she has performed at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and internationally in the United States, Ireland, Wales, Poland and Australia.
Alexa Conradi is a Canadian activist and former president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ).
David Homel is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, his translation of Dany Laferrière's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Fairy Ring, their translation of Martine Desjardins' Le Cercle de Clara.
Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon is a Canadian femme de lettres, journalist, essayist, and biographer from Quebec.
François Godin is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec, most noted as a two-time Governor General's Award nominee for French-language drama.
Les Chevaliers de la mort: Enquête et révélations sur l'Ordre du Temple Solaire is a book by journalists Arnaud Bédat, Gilles Bouleau and Bernard Nicolas, covering the cult the Order of the Solar Temple, notorious for the mass murder-suicides committed by the group in the 1990s. It was co-published in December 1996 by L'Illustré and TF1 Éditions, and published in Canada by Libre Expression the next month.
BAnQ numérique is the digital portal of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec(BAnQ), the library and archives of the Quebec province in Canada. It was launched in October 2015, following the previous digitization initiatives of BAnQ with additional funding from the Quebec Ministry of Culture. It provides access to the digitized resources of BAnQ, including its newspaper collection, as well as books.
