Childcare services
Childcare services are recognized as the following:
- educational centers
- subsidized daycares
- unsubsidized daycares
- home daycares
- before and after school programs
These providers can offer childcare services to :
- Infants
- toddlers
- preschoolers
- school-age children
They can also offer :
- full-time childcare
- part-time childcare
- before and after school care
- extended hours of care
Visit the following websites to find out more about services offered in provinces and territories outside Quebec.
West/North Region (AB, BC, MB, NU, SK, NWT, YK)
- Conseil scolaire du Nord-Ouest – Early childhood programs
https://csno.ab.ca/services-et-programmes/la-pre-maternelle/ - Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord – Before and after school care
https://centrenord.ab.ca/programmes-services/programmes-etude/prescolaire - Conseil scolaire FrancoSud – https://francosud.ca/accueil/pedagogie/prescolaire/
- Support, management and development of French-speaking daycare centers (Horizon)
https://horizonfpfa.ca/ - Francophone daycares in Alberta https://www.facebook.com/garderiesFRAB/
- Childcare (Réseau en immigration francophone de l’Alberta)
https://rifalberta.com/immigration-et-installation/vie-quotidienne/garde-denfants/
- Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique – Early childhood
https://www.csf.bc.ca/nos-programmes/petite-enfance/ - Support, management and development of francophone daycare centers (Le Phare C.-B.)
https://lepharecb.ca/ - Find a daycare center in British Columbia (Fédération des parents francophones de la Colombie-Britannique)
https://fpfcb.bc.ca/trouver-une-garderie-en-c-b/
- Division scolaire franco-manitobaine – Early childhood
https://www.dsfm.mb.ca/education/petite_enfance - French learning centers
https://www.lafpfm.ca/centresdapprentissagesfrancais - Search for childcare services (Government of Manitoba)
https://childcaresearch.gov.mb.ca/fr/
- Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut – Daycare services
https://csfn.ca/service-de-garde/ - Francophone parents (Association des francophones du Nunavut)
https://www.afnunavut.ca/parents-francophones/
- Conseil des écoles fransaskoises – Early childhood – Francophone educational centers and services in Saskatchewan
https://ecolefrancophone.com/fr/education/construction-identitaire/petite-enfance - List of francophone daycare services in Saskatchewan (Association des parents fransaskois)
https://parentsfransaskois.ca/services-de-gardes/trouver-une-garderie-francophone-en-saskatchewan/ - Francophone daycares in Saskatchewan (Government of Saskatchewan)
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/bonjour/education-learning-and-child-care/child-care-in-saskatchewan/early-childhood
- Commission scolaire francophone Territoires du Nord-Ouest – Daycare services
https://www.csftno.com/services-de-garde - Francophone daycares in Yellowknife (Réseau TNO Santé)
https://www.reseautnosante.com/ressourcespes
- Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon – Garderie du petit cheval blanc
https://petitchevalblanc.ca/ - Information on early childhood education and care (Government of Yukon)
https://yukon.ca/fr/trouver-garderie
Central/Ontario region
- Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales (CSDCAB) – Daycares
https://csdcab.ca/parents/garderie/ - Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes Rivières (CSCDGR) – Early childhood centers
https://www.cscdgr.education/education/petite-enfance/garderies
Before and after school programs
https://www.cscdgr.education/education/petite-enfance/programmes-avant-et-apres-l-ecole# - Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvelon (CSCNO) – Daycare or before and after school programs
https://www.nouvelon.ca/parents/liste-des-carrefours-et-des-services-de-garde - Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord – Early childhood centers
https://grandnord.ca/programmes/garderies/ - Conseil scolaire catholique Franco-Nord – Daycares
https://www.franco-nord.ca/Programmes-et-Services/Petite-Enfance/Pr%C3%A9scolaire/Garderies - Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l’Ontario (CSPNE ) – Daycare services
https://cspne.ca/ecoles/service-de-garde - Conseil scolaire catholique Providence – Daycare services
https://www.cscprovidence.ca/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1144382&type=d&pREC_ID=1386223 - Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir – Daycare services
https://cscmonavenir.ca/services/services-de-garde/ - Viamonde School Board – Childcare services
https://csviamonde.ca/nos-ecoles/services-de-garde-denfants - Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE ) – Preschools https://www.ecolecatholique.ca/fr/Garderies-Prescolaires_308
- Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO ) – Daycare Directory
https://petite-enfance.cepeo.on.ca/service-de-garde/repertoire/ - Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO) – Early childhood programs
https://csdceo.ca/fr/inscription/garderies-et-parascolaire - Association francophone à l’éducation des services à l’enfance de l’Ontario – https://afeseo.ca/
- Government of Ontario – Early Childhood
https://www.ontario.ca/fr/page/ministere-de-leducation
Atlantic Region (PEI, NE, NL, NB)
- Commission scolaire de langue française de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard – Early childhood centers
https://cslf.edu.pe.ca/familles-et-communaute/centres-de-la-petite-enfance - Association des centres de la petite enfance francophones de L’Île-du-Prince-Édouard (ACPEFÎPÉ) – https://gw.micro-acces.com/acpefipe/Publique/Accueil.aspx
- Conseil d’éducation du District scolaire francophone du Nord-Ouest – Educational daycares
https://dsfno.nbed.ca/garderies-educatives-2-2/ - Conseil d’éducation du District scolaire francophone Nord-Est – View Early Childhood sub-tabs
https://www.dsfne.ca/ - Conseil d’éducation du District scolaire francophone Sud – View Early Childhood sub-tabs
https://francophonesud.nbed.nb.ca/ - Association francophone des garderies éducatives du Nouveau-Brunswick – https://www.facebook.com/AFGENB/
- Government of New Brunswick – Search for an educational daycare centre
https://www.nbed.nb.ca/parentportal/fr/search/elc/#lat=46.8546649456392,long=-66.17836761,zoom=7,opt=di:;a2:0;a25:0;as:0;aa:0;oa:0;d:0;tc:0;th:0;le:0;lf:0;lb:0;po:0;on:||
- Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) – Growing up in French and early childhood
https://csap.ca/ecoles/grandir-en-francais - Center d’appui à la petite enfance de la Nouvelle-Écosse – Consult the Services and Centres tabs
https://capene.ca/centres-de-la-petite-enfance
- Conseil scolaire francophone provincial de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
https://csfp.nl.ca/programmes-scolaires/ - Garderie francophone (La Fédération des parents francophones de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador)
https://www.fpftnl.ca/fr/services/garderie-service-de-garde-francophone/ - Family and Children (Portal for Francophones in Newfoundland and Labrador)
https://www.francotnl.ca/fr/services/education-et-famille/famille-et-enfance/