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There are also French-speaking communities in Manitoba and Ontario, where francophones are about 4 percent of the population, [4] and smaller communities (about 1 to 2 percent of the population) in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan. [4] Many of these communities are supported by French-language institutions.
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.
French is the city's official language. [26] [27] In 2021, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 90.2% could speak it in the metropolitan area. [28] [29] Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 58.5% of the population able to speak both French and English. [30]
Francophone Canadians or French-speaking Canadians are citizens of Canada who speak French, and sometimes refers only to those who speak it as their first language.In 2021, 10,669,575 people in Canada or 29.2% of the total population spoke French, including 7,651,360 people or 20.8% who declared French as their mother tongue.
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]
Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of British Columbia are listed. The provincial average of British Columbians whose mother tongue is French is 1.2%, with a total of 57,420 people in British Columbia who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021.
All three of Canada's territories include French as an official language of the territory alongside English and local indigenous languages, although in practice French-language services are normally available only in the capital cities and not across the entire territory.
Canadian French (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties , the most prominent of which is Québécois ( Quebec French ).