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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.
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.
Bilingual (English/French) stop sign on Parliament Hill in Ottawa [7] Royal Military College Paladins Bilingual (English/French) Scoreboard, inner field, Royal Military College of Canada [8] Bilingual (French/English) sign for Preston Street (rue Preston) in Ottawa, placed above a sign marking that the street is in Little Italy, an example of bilingualism at the municipal government level [9
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 ...
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]
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%.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks about U.S.-Canada relations as U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to level new tariffs on Canada, during a meeting of Canada-U.S. Relations ...
At the end of the 18th century, to distinguish between the English-speaking population and the French-speaking population, the terms English Canadian and French Canadian emerged. [9] During the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 1980s, inhabitants of Quebec began to identify as Québécois instead of simply French Canadian.