The following two letters highlight the early years of the publishing house L’Interligne and its membership in the Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario (ACFO), which subsequently became the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario. The letters are dated July 25 and 29, 1983.

L’Interligne was founded in Ottawa in 1981. Its purpose was to publish Liaison, a magazine devoted to the arts and culture of French-speaking Ontario. Created three years earlier, the magazine initially served as a newsletter for Théâtre Action, an organization dedicated to promoting theatre in French-speaking Ontario. As a publishing house, L’Interligne allowed Liaison to expand beyond its horizons; it would consider other artistic disciplines also flourishing throughout the province. The publisher would also make Liaison a more professional publication. At the time, 3,500 copies were printed six times a year.

In its early years, L’Interligne devoted itself almost entirely to publishing the magazine. It was 1983 before the house released its first book, La fortune et Lachance, an anti-photoroman by Robert Marinier that was first brought to the stage. L’Interligne went on to publish several works on Franco-Ontarian history and heritage. The publisher’s commitment to the community was similar to Éditions d’Acadie, Prise de parole and Éditions du Blé, Franco-Canadian publishers founded in the early 1970s in Moncton, Sudbury, and Saint-Boniface respectively.

In the 1990s, L’Interligne took a more literary turn. Some time later, the firm instigated a major transformation of Liaison: in 2006, the magazine officially expanded its editorial reach to all francophone minority groups, reflecting the rapprochement that had taken place between French-language communities in Ontario, Acadie, and the Western provinces in terms of arts and culture. Finally, at L’Interligne, literary works took precedence over journalism and broad promotion of the arts. Forty years after its founding, the final issue of Liaison appeared in 2018, its run brought to an end by financial problems.