La famille Plouffe was a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec family that first aired in the French-language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone television in Canada. Whereas the English Canadian television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast English-language shows from American stations, the Francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs for French-Canadian viewers from the earliest days of television in Canada. This show was one of the few that helped to launch the téléroman genre of programming in French Canada, interestingly around the same time the first telenovelas aired in Latin America. The téléroman or the soap ratings are as follows as of June 15, 2006. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Knowledge of French in the European Union and candidate countries French (français, pronounced ) is a Romance language spoken originally in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as a mother tongue or fluent second language,[1] with significant populations in 54... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas government-owned radio and television service. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Telenovela is the Spanish and Portuguese word for prime time serial or soap opera. ...

The series was also broadcast, dubbed into English as The Plouffe Family, on CBC Television the following year. CBC Television is the primary English language television service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...

The series was based on the novel Les Plouffe, by Roger Lemelin. It chronicled the daily life of a working class family in the years following World War II. The family included patriarch Théophile, a former provincial cycling champion who had settled into life as a plumber, his wife Joséphine, a naive but kind-hearted mother who doted on her adult children, and their children Napoléon, Ovide, Cécile and Guillaume. Roger Lemelin (born April 7, 1919 - March 16, 1992) was a Quebec novelist, television writer, and essayist. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Cast

• Théophile Plouffe - Paul Guèvremont
• Joséphine Plouffe - Amanda Alarie
• Napoléon Plouffe - Emile Genest
• Ovide Plouffe - Jean-Louis Roux, Marcel Houben
• Guillaume Plouffe - Pierre Valcour
• Cécile Plouffe - Denise Pelletier
• Gédéon Plouffe - Doris Lussier
• Démérise Plouffe - Nana de Varennes
• Onéisme Ménard - Rolland Bédard
• Rita Toulouse - Lise Roy, Jeannine Mignolet
• Blanche Toulouse - Lucie Poitras
• Jeanne Labrie - Thérèse Cadorette
• Stan Labrie - Jean Duceppe
• Père Alexandre - Guy Provost
• Martine Plouffe - Margot Campbell
• Aimé Plouffe - Jean Coutu
• Flora Plouffe - Ginette Letondal
• Agathe Plouffe - Clémence Desrochers
• Rosaire Joyeux - Camille Ducharme
• Jacqueline Sévigny - Amulette Garneau
• Alain Richard - Guy Godin
• Hélène Giguère - Françoise Graton
• Alphonse Tremblay - Ernest Guimond