u/ritchotte

I have an application in Process submitted before the new guidelines were posted. I want to add the required documents to my application. Does anyone have advice as how ask for the following: (can it be done online, does it require a physical letter sent etc.)

Letter to the Directeur de l'état civil du Québec — requesting an official attestation arguing that under pre-1994 Québec law the parish baptismal act was the official civil birth act, so no separate "birth certificate" would ever have existed.

Follow-up letter to BAnQ — referencing my reproduction request , asking for a search certificate confirming the record's nature and the registration practices in Québec in 1850.

I'm lost on how to get these documents so I can amend my application.

Any suggestions for a safe-ish six mile run loop from the east end in the am? Thanks!

I swear I’m not a stupid person but I can’t get my brain around the tire choices. We live in Boston so city driving with snowy winters. I was assuming the 21” all season are the way to go. Am I not getting that right?

PSA. UK Royal Air Force will do a jet formation flyover around 3:15 today.

Hey all. I know the current status of the process — and the anxiety it’s causing — has us all on edge. I also recognize this has put a spotlight on how the Canadian public does or does not support C-3. But I wanted to share how I’m approaching this journey personally.

I was born and raised in southern New Hampshire — Manchester, the largest city in one of the smallest states. During the Industrial Revolution, it became one of America’s largest mill towns, home to the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, which at its peak ran 30 mills and employed 17,000 workers, making it the largest cotton textile operation in the world. By 1910, French Canadians made up 35% of Amoskeag’s workforce and 38% of the city’s population — part of a much larger wave: between 1840 and 1930, roughly 900,000 French-Canadians left Québec for New England, making Franco-Americans the largest immigrant group in New Hampshire by the early 20th century .

The Merrimack River, which powered the mills, ran through the heart of the city. In Manchester’s mill-town heyday, the west side belonged to the Franco-American immigrants, while the east side was more Irish — to the point that, a generation or two back, a west-sider dating an east-sider could cause a real family scandal . The west side held onto its French character for decades — French shops, French parishes, and even today, some banks and storefronts there still carry French signage.

I’m a G3. My grandfather was born in Manchester but only spoke French for the early part of his life — even though, by family account, we were east-siders. That tracks with how thoroughly the city was shaped by the migration: this wasn’t just a west-side phenomenon. The Franco-American community built its own infrastructure across the city — churches, schools, hospitals, fraternal societies, French-language newspapers — and held onto its language and faith deliberately, through what they called la survivance: the idea that to lose the language was to lose the faith. Even generations removed from the mill migration, we were steeped in that culture.

Alongside our local ABC affiliate and the CBS/NBC stations we’d pull in from Boston, our fourth local channel was CKSH — Sherbrooke’s Radio-Canada Télé station (complete with scrambled adult films overnight, IYKYK). All this to say: northern New England, Quebec, and the Maritimes are regional cousins, bound by more than a border. I feel more Canadian than I would ever feel Californian.

To me, this feels less like claiming a new identity and more like formalizing one I’ve always inherently felt. I understand why some Canadiens wouldn’t see me as a “true” Canadian — but it’s how I see myself: American/Canadien.

I had such a lovely experience running on the community path today…coming through the union square T stop up the flyover a guy was running towards me and came right in arm raised for a high five. Sometimes the “look straight ahead” don’t even nod hello ethos of Cambridgeville can be discouraging. This was a nice reminder to look around sometimes and offer a hand to slap.

Has anyone in AOR / In process have success linking your application to your IRCC Account? I want to upload an additional document so I created an IRCC Account. But the process of linking my application does not work. They ask for UCI, Application number and then they want to know if you are using your parent or Grandparent to claim. Obviously, I'm claiming my grate great grandparent and that's not an option. If I select Grandparent or Parent and enter that information, it does not work. Help!