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Astro (Astro Boy) - Bande-annonce en français (Québec) (by lescinephiles)

This is sort of like memories of childhood, even though this is a recent movie of Astro Boy in French.  I can still remember watching the original series, however, on what was Channel 13 in Saskatoon.  Or CBC Fransaskois, the French language television station in Saskatchewan.  When I couldn't see cartoons on the regular TV channels, like CFQC, CBC or STV (which would eventually become Global), Channel 13 always had an anime that had been dubbed with Quebecois (point of fact, many French Canadians had a hand in settling the province of Saskatchewan, and while it is a minority, there are a few rural communities that are heavily French influenced, such as Gravelbourg, Duck Lake, Belleguard).

For Astro Boy, there was a Canadian distributor and a Canadian animation house that had a major hand in bringing the animation to Canadian television households.  And it was first recorded in French, and then in English.

This was dubbed to Quebecois French in 1984, and to Canadian English in 1985. The series ran from 1985 to 1997 on provincial TV stations (i.e. STV and MTN) and all substations of Global Broadcasting. In 2010, I tried writing two Global stations to ask them if they had any of the original reels that I could try and remaster (even though I was 17), and they declined. The company has since gone bankrupt.

(found in the description of another Astro Boy Canadian Cartoon)