This article focuses on the column entitled “Dans nos écoles” (“In Our Schools”) in the Franco-Manitoban newspaper La Liberté (2006-2008). The author aims to show that the personal narrative used there explores certain strategies of self-identification in the context of the individual and society. He draws attention to terms such as francisation, the start of the school year and school discipline, while showing that the dialectic between Self and Other opens up a symbolic pathway through which the Other of Franco-Manitoban culture (the Anglophone world) implicitly enters. In this way, personal narrative, as a narrative form, becomes a source of mediation and memory. In order to clarify the object of his research, the author begins with a synthesis of the work carried out on identity in several fields of the social sciences. This synthesis not only highlights the complexity of the concept of identity, but also offers some guidelines without which it remains susceptible to numerous conceptual abuses.