Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (''Theatre of New-Ontario'') is a Canadian professional

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company. Located in Sudbury,

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, the company produces

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stage productions. The company was founded in 1971 by the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario (CANO), a group of artists that included André Paiement,

Marcel Aymar Marcel Aymar (born in Meteghan, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician, composer, writer and actor. He moved to Greater Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario in 1972 as a teen and was a founding member of the popular Franco-Ontarian group CANO, playing guitar.Kuz ...

, Denis St-Jules and Robert Paquette.Wallace, C. M.; & Thomson, Ashley (Eds.) (1993). ''Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital'' (3rd ed.).

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. . p. 249. It evolved out of an informal association of students at

Laurentian University Laurentian University (), officially Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized Bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. Laurentian offers a variety of undergr ...

who united to write and perform a Franco-Ontarian

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show, ''Moé, j'viens du nord, 'stie!'', in 1970. Other artists later to be associated with the company included Jean-Marc Dalpé, Brigitte Haentjens and Alex Tétreault. The company originally staged theatre productions at Laurentian's Fraser Auditorium. It subsequently acquired a former bakery on King Street in the city's Flour Mill neighbourhood, and remained there until building a new theatre on the grounds of

Collège Boréal Collège Boréal d’arts appliqués et de technologie is a French-language college of applied arts and technology serving the Northern and Central Southwestern Ontario area. It is the youngest of the 24 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology ...

in the late 1990s. It moved in 2022 to the new Place des Arts facility in downtown Sudbury."Sudbury's Place des Arts on track for a 2022 opening"
CBC Northern Ontario, October 5, 2021.

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Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario
Theatre companies in Ontario Culture of Greater Sudbury Franco-Ontarian organizations {{Canada-theat-stub