[78-L] Bi lingual

[David Lennick]

Victor Canada seems to have tried it in the late 20s..maybe not for that long, 
but I've definitely seen black labels with French subtitles. Not on Brunswick 
or Columbia that I can remember.

dl

On 11/6/2013 6:47 AM, Marcel/Cecilia wrote:
> Bilingualism only became entrenched in 1969 under Pierre Trudeau. Too
> late for the 78's.
> http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/federal/ola.htm
>
> Marcel
>
> On 2013-11-06 6:38 AM, rjh334578gmail wrote:
>> The discussion of Canadian discs prompts me to ask...
>>
>> All my scroll Victors and many later ones have Spanish-ized titles
>> which I have always assumed was for simple crossdistribution in
>> Mexico.  This sure predates the current US fad of subtitling
>> everything in Spanish and leads me to consider the Canadian issues.
>>
>> I'm a litttle suprised the Canadian ones do not have French
>> subtitles.  Any idea why?  They've been big on having everything
>> bilingual in French Canadia for as long as they've been on the map, at
>> least in my lifetime living near the border as a kid and getting lots
>> of Canadian coins in change.  Also begs the question why the Columbias
>> which were distributed there didn't sport the subtitles in French.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng
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