Les jumelages représentent un partenariat, un cadre pour encourager des initiatives qui mènent à un enrichissement réciproque entre deux municipalités; développement d’échanges culturels dans les domaines des arts, de la formation professionnelle, de l’économie et du tourisme, ainsi que l’étude de perspectives d’actions communes favorables aux échanges politiques territoriaux.
Marennes is a municipality located in the south-west of France in the department of Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Its population is about 5 500 inhabitants. It owes its fame to the production of oysters called “green”. The Caraquet-Marennes twinning goes back almost sixty years, and our archives show that already in 1959 links were created around the fishing industry and that a few years later the twinning became official. Many meetings and exchanges have taken place since.
In 2014, a new public square was erected at the front of Caraquet Town Hall: “Place Marennes” is inaugurated as a symbol of our privileged relationship. In 2017, the signing of a multi-year cooperation agreement commits the two communities to a project of interterritorial cooperation in order to make Francophonie a lever of development and to allow the emergence of common actions.
On June 3, 2015, the cities of Caraquet and Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, signed a twinning and friendship agreement. It is at the annual conference of Les Arts et la Ville in Moncton that mayors engaged their respective cities in a pact of cultural exchange and mutual aid.
The similarities, mainly in the cultural dynamism of the two cities, make the exchanges between the municipal administrations, the organizers of events and the artists of both cities greatly encouraged the signing of such a protocol.
The mayors are delighted and intend to make this agreement the basis for successful exchanges that could possibly go beyond the cultural world.
