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Further information: Canadian French and French language in Canada. In 2011, just over 7.1 million Canadians spoke French most often at home, this was a rise of 4.2%, although the proportion of people in Canada who spoke French "most often" at home fell slightly from 21.7% to 21.5% .
Website. www.toronto.ca. Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, [ 10 ] it is the fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding ...
List of countries by number of languages. This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2][3]
French is the native language of over 500,000 persons in Ontario, representing 4.7 percent of the province's population. They are concentrated primarily in the Eastern Ontarioand Northeastern Ontarioregions, near the border with Quebec, although they are also present in smaller numbers throughout the province.
Canadian English(CanE, CE, en-CA)[5]encompasses the varietiesof Englishused in Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first languageof 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French(20.8%) or other languages (21.1%).[6] In the Canadian province of Quebec, only 7.5% of the population are mother ...
1966: The first of two amendments to the provincial Public Schools Act (the second taking place in 1970) reintroduce French-language instruction. 1979: Manitoba (Attorney General) v. Forest: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that the Official Language Act of 1890 is ultra vires.
Toronto was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. [1] For over 12,000 years, Indigenous People have lived in the Toronto area. The ancestors of the Huron-Wendat were the first known groups to establish agricultural villages in the area about ...
History of Canada. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was a pivotal battle during the French and Indian War over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada. The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day.