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Situated at the very heart of the first French Quarter, the Saint-Joachim Catholic Parish was established in 1838 in Fort Edmonton. Four different buildings will carry the name Saint-Joachim Church (9920 110 Street), the last of which was built in 1899 and still exists today. A great many of the French community’s associations were established by parishioners of Saint-Joachim: la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste (1894) la Société du parler français (1912) and l’Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta (1926).

Over the years, however the French Quarter migrated to the south side of the North Saskatchewan River to the Bonnie Doon district, home to a large percentage of the province's Francophone population. It is affectionately called "la Cité francophone" and also Edmonton's French Quarter. The area is the hub of French life in the city. A cultural centre, Francophone high school, church, seniors' centre, the Campus St-Jean and student residences all call Bonnie Doon home. They line the main street, la Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury. (In 1988, 91 Street was renamed in honor of Marie-Anne Gaboury, the wife of Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière and Louis Riel’s grandmother.)

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