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Most Canadian native speakers of French live in Quebec, the only province where French is the majority and the sole official language. [2] Of Quebec's people, 71.2 percent are native francophones and 95 percent speak French as their first or second language. [3]
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.
Education, health and social services are provided by provincial institutions, so that provincial identities are often used to identify French-language institutions: Map of French language ability in Ontario according to the 2021 census. Franco-Newfoundlanders, province of Newfoundland and Labrador, also known as Terre-Neuvien(ne)
Map of Rupert's Land.Prior to its transfer to Canada in 1869, English was a minority language in that region.. Prior to becoming part of Canada in 1869, English was a minority language in the Prairies, where French and Aboriginal languages were more common.
Quebec is the only Canadian province whose population is mainly Francophone, meaning that French is their native language. In the 2011 Census, 6,102,210 people (78.1% of the population) recorded French as their sole native language and 6,249,085 (80.0%) recorded that they spoke French most often at home. [227]
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.
Provincially, French is the sole official language of the province of Quebec, being the mother tongue for some 7 million people, or almost 80.1 percent (2006 Census) of the province. About 95 percent of the people of Quebec speak French as either a first or second language.
Legislation is enacted in both languages and courts conduct cases in both. In 2022, Nova Scotia recognized Mi'kmawi'simk as the first language of the province, [1] [2] and maintains two provincial language secretariats: the Office of Acadian Affairs and Francophonie (French language) and the Office of Gaelic Affairs (Canadian Gaelic).