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Despite this, French-language manuals, packaging and promotional materials continue to exist for the English translations of the games, in order to market both the English and French versions to Francophone Canadians. While French-language games and related material fully translate all terms and names using {{pmin|France}}'s localizations, material related to English games localizes some terms but leaves all proper nouns the same, with France's equivalent provided in brackets for some lesser terms ("{{pkmn|Trainer}}" is translated as "Dresseur", but "{{p|Feraligatr}}" is used instead of "Aligatueur" and [[Castelia City]] is referred to as "la ville Castelia City"). | Despite this, French-language manuals, packaging and promotional materials continue to exist for the English translations of the games, in order to market both the English and French versions to Francophone Canadians. While French-language games and related material fully translate all terms and names using {{pmin|France}}'s localizations, material related to English games localizes some terms but leaves all proper nouns the same, with France's equivalent provided in brackets for some lesser terms ("{{pkmn|Trainer}}" is translated as "Dresseur", but "{{p|Feraligatr}}" is used instead of "Aligatueur" and [[Castelia City]] is referred to as "la ville Castelia City"). | ||
[[File:Shiny Legendary Beasts EB Games event Canada.jpg|thumb|right|A poster in an EB Games store advertising the shiny legendary beasts event, the | [[File:Shiny Legendary Beasts EB Games event Canada.jpg|thumb|right|170px|A poster in an EB Games store advertising the shiny legendary beasts event, the second in-store event distribution in Canada]] | ||
===Event Pokémon=== | ===Event Pokémon=== | ||
Canadian players have had access to all Wi-Fi event distributions since the {{Gdis|Secret Key|IV}} in early 2009. There were no in-store [[event Pokémon]] distributions | Canadian players have had access to all Wi-Fi event distributions since the {{Gdis|Secret Key|IV}} in early 2009. The first in-store distribution was the [[List of European language event Pokémon distributions in Generation I#Canada Toys "R" Us Mew|Toys "R" Us Mew]] in 2000. There were no in-store [[event Pokémon]] distributions again until the 2011 release of the [[Legendary beasts (M13)#In the games|shiny legendary beasts]] at {{wp|EB Games}} and {{wp|GameStop}} stores. Following this, other events have been distributed at EB Games and GameStop stores as well as in {{wp|Toys 'R' Us}} stores. Events have been released to both English and French games.<ref>[http://www.gamesniped.com/2012/02/13/pokemon-zoroark-distribution-cart-nintendo-ds/ Image of bilingual Zoroark distribution cart @ GameSniped] (retrieved April 9, 2012)</ref> However like most [[Generation V]] distributions, Canada has also received distributions for German, Italian, and Spanish games. In Generations {{gen|II}} and {{gen|III}}, Canada had no [[event Pokémon]] distributions. | ||
==Pokémon anime== | ==Pokémon anime== | ||