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GOVERNOR GENERAL BECOMES CFFM’S PATRON
It is with great happiness that we announce that Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada, has graciously consented to become the patron of CFFM.
We are greatly honoured that she is following the tradition of previous Governors General in supporting our family of [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
The real Canadian new year always seems to begIn at Labour Day after our summer . It is said that in England everything stops for tea. I sometimes feel that in Canada everything stops for the summer. And quite right too, in many ways, with our short season.
Even though many of our members [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSSAGE
Life at CFFM has been moving at a fast pace since au courant was last published in early March. We have held two Board meetings, March 22 and June 2, the AGM in Saint John on May 4, and a Retreat on April 5, with follow-up meetings, to work out the best route [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
This issue of au courant follows hard on the heels of our last issue so that we can mail out advice of our Annual General Meeting, to be held as usual in conjunction with the Canadian Museums Association Conference. This year the venue is Saint John, New Brunswick, and we are looking forward [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
We at CFFM wish you all the best in the New Year.
Our apologies to CFFM director, Danielle Lecours, who is also the President of the RQABM ( le regroupement québécois des amis et bénévoles de musées), for omitting her name as a speaker at the WFFM Conference in Seville last October in our [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
After doing sterling work editing “Au Courant”, Flora Agnew has sadly decided to retire and we are incredibly in her debt for the wonderful way she took over the job a few years ago and kept our lines of communication open. Flora, of course, is not really retiring, but is continuing to help [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Last issue we said good-bye to our Administrative Assistant, Peggy Eades, and this issue we welcome Ivy Egalik. Great to have you with us, Ivy. We also welcome Laurent Weiss, who has been helping us with the convoluted process of transferring our records to our new computer from our very ancient machine. We [...]

NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Happy 2005 to all our Friends!
We ended last year being involved with the meeting of the CMA with the Honorable Lisa Frulla, Minister of Canadian Heritage, concerning reviewing the finding for museums and heritage sites in the 2005 federal budget, pressing for a long overdue increase. We were also involved with the preparation [...]

WE HAVE GREAT NEWS!
We have a new National Director for CFFM! It is Jo Breyfogle, a part of our CFFM team for ten years and currently serving as our Nominations Chair on the Board. She will take over from me at our Annual Meeting in Québec City. For now, we are working together to ensure [...]

FLORA AGNEW
Flora was born in Lindsay, Ontario. Growing up in Toronto, she attended and graduated from the Bishop Strachan School. She must have acquitted herself very well as many years later she became the school’s first woman president of the Board of Trustees.
Flora tells me her first volunteer job was to load the ancient dishwasher [...]