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Most North American research into technical writing explores the profession as it is practised in English; investigation of technical writing in languages other than English centres mainly on technical translation. This paper points out that in Canada, and primarily in Quebec, there is a considerable body of technical documentation written originally in French. Through an analysis of two surveys conducted by the authors it attempts to identify who these French-language professional and technical writers are, where and under what conditions they work, and what type of training they have.