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This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario.Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed.. The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021.
The great majority of city residents are native French speakers. The English-speaking community peaked in relative terms during the 1860s, when 40% of Quebec City's residents were Anglophone. [68] [69] Today, native Anglophones make up only about 1.5% of the population of both the city and its metropolitan area. [70]
Lowest percentage with French most often spoken at home: Abbotsford-Mission, British Columbia, 0.2% [23] Lowest percentage with a non-official language most often spoken at home: Saguenay, Quebec, 0.4% [23] Lowest population with English and French spoken equally at home: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, 0.1% [23] Knowledge of official ...
Quebec is the only one of Canada's provinces to feature a Francophone (French-speaking) majority, and where anglophones (English-speakers) constitute an officially recognized minority group. According to the 2011 census, French is spoken by more than 85.5% of the population while this number rises to 88% for children under 15 years old. [ 1 ]
French is the common language, understood and spoken by 94.4% of the population. [221] [222] Québécois French is the local variant of the language. Canada is estimated to be home to roughly 30 regional French accents, [223] [224] 17 of which can be found in Quebec. [225]
Those who spoke French as their first official language formed 51.1% of all immigrants to the province, while an additional 16.3% spoke both French and English; among those who immigrated to the province between 2006 and 2011, the proportion who spoke French as their first official language was 58.8%.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, [24] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, [25] making it the second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language.
"In Canada, 4.7 million people (14.2% of the population) reported speaking a language other than English or French most often at home and 1.9 million people (5.8%) reported speaking such a language on a regular basis as a second language (in addition to their main home language, English or French).