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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.
People who claim some French-Canadian ancestry or heritage number some 7 million in Canada. In the United States, 2.4 million people report French-Canadian ancestry or heritage, while an additional 8.4 million claim French ancestry; they are treated as a separate ethnic group by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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, 85 percent are native francophones and 95 percent speak French as their first or second language. [3]
Québécois (pronounced ⓘ); feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ⓘ), Quebecois (fem.: Quebecoise), [4] or Québecois (fem.: Québecoise) [5] is a word used primarily to refer to a French-speaking inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec. Sometimes, it is used more generally to refer to any inhabitant of Quebec.
This category lists French Canadians: citizens of Canada who are first language francophone or who, despite being anglophone, self-identify as French Canadian or as a member of the various sub-ethnic groups, listed here as subcategories. (Note: French Canadians do not necessarily have ethnic French origins or ancestry.)
Outside Quebec, the largest French-speaking populations are found in New Brunswick (which is home to 3.1% of Canada's Francophones) and Ontario (4.2%, residing primarily in the eastern and northeastern parts of the province and in Toronto and Ottawa). Overall, 22% of people in Canada declare French to be their mother language, while one in ...
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.
Canadian people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent (2 C, 23 P) ... Pages in category "Francophone Canadians" The following 4 pages are in this category, out ...