no idea, but from the only town on the planet that still celebrates the british empire. I think there's your answer. lol
they do have an event every year but it was a couple weeks ago.
[a href="vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/festival/index.html"]vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/festival/index.html[/a]
they also have a magazine published 3x a year
[a href="vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/contenu/bastion_nov_dec_jan_0708.pdf"]vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/contenu/bastion_nov_dec_jan_0708.pdf[/a]
Accroding to Action Plan on how to attract french speaking tourists to Nanaimo. 10k people show up for the maple festival in late feb. hmm
[a href="vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/contenu/plan_eng.pdf"]vny!://www.francophonenanaimo.org/contenu/plan_eng.pdf[/a]