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HI
Can anyone help.
I have 4 children who will go to school when we arrive in canada.
We are a british family but we live in france.
Our children speak french fluently and we speak a little french.
We would like to send our children to a french school.
I would like to keep the children speaking french has I think it will be better for them in the future to be bilingual to have better opportunities in work.
Can I please do this and send them to a french school to carry on learning in french and speaking in french.
Thank you in advance

Yes you can. As you maybe already know Canada has 2 official languages - English and French so of course we have a lot of French immersion schools. There are private French schools as well.
Quebec and New Brunswick are the two provinces where French is spoken widely.

In which province are you going to live?

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Hi
Thank you for your reply.
We were thinking of coming to live in nova scotia or new brunswick.
Are the french schools free or is there a fee.

Hi, There is no tuituon for the public schools. French immersion programs are most popular in the Maritimes - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.

When are you coming to Canada?

I live in SouthWestern Ontario and both my kids go to a French Catholic school (not French Immersion). My wife is from a small French community close by (Pain Court) and she wanted our kids to be fluent in French just like her and her family.

When we get assessed for property taxes we are asked which school board the education portion of our property taxes should go toward. For us it is French Catholic. Also, when we vote we are asked which school board so we can vote for trustees on the French Catholic school board since this impacts our children. So is it free? Not really, it is rolled into your property taxes just like the English public schools. You don't pay any extra for it, but make no mistake, you are paying for it through property taxes.