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Canada’s first Official Languages Act, 1969

The House of Commons chamber in the West Block, Ottawa, photographed in 2023; a general image of Parliament, not of the Act.
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Canada adopted its first federal Official Languages Act in 1969. It declared English and French to be the two official languages of the Parliament and government of Canada.

Scope & context

The 1969 Act, not the later 1988 Act or its 2023 modernization.

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History of the Official Languages Act ↗

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1969: The first federal Official Languages Act