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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. [3] There are, however, sizeable francophone communities in other provinces, such as New Brunswick, the only officially fully bilingual province, and Manitoba and Ontario, whose governments are officially semi-bilingual, required to provide services in French ...
Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie (known by the acronym ACUFC for its French name, "Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne") is an association of community colleges and universities in minority francophone communities in Canada, through cooperation between its member institutions.
The first francophones to enter the region were French Canadian voyageurs employed with the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. French fur traders continued to visit the region in the early 19th century, with the French language serving as a lingua franca for the regional fur trade .
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 Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta (French Canadian Association of Alberta) is a Canadian association that seeks to represent and promote the culture of Franco-Albertans within Alberta. [1] It is the largest organisation of its kind in Alberta.
The Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario (or AFMO, from its French name, Association française des municipalités d'Ontario) is a Canadian political organization of municipalities in the province of Ontario which have significant Franco-Ontarian communities. [1]
In 2004, the organization changed its name to L'Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario, partly to reflect Canadian francophones' modern shift away from identifying as French Canadian. In 2010 / 2011, their revenue was 1.4 million dollars. 1.2 million of that came from various government entities.
Franco-Newfoundlanders, also known as Franco-Terreneuvians (or just Terreneuvians) in English or Franco-Terreneuviens in French, are francophone and/or French Canadian residents of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. [1] The name Franco-Terreneuvian derives from Terre-Neuve, the French name of Newfoundland.