Francophone Canadians

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Not to be confused with
French Canadian
.

Francophone Canadians (or French-speaking Canadians) are citizens of Canada who speak French. In 2011, 9,809,155 people in Canada, or 30.1%[1] of the population, were Francophone, including 7,274,090 people, or 22% of the population, who declared that they had French as their mother tongue.[2]

Distribution

French administrative map of Canada.

Six million French-speaking Canadians reside in

Francophones outside Quebec live in Ontario, followed by New Brunswick, but they can be found in all provinces and territories.[3] The presence of French in Canada comes mainly from French colonization in America
that occurred in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Francophones in Canada are not all of

French Canadian or French descent, particularly in the English-speaking provinces of Ontario and Western Canada
. A few Canadians of French Canadian or French origin are also not Francophone.

Unlike Francophones in Quebec, who generally identify simply as Québécois, Francophones outside Quebec generally identify as Francophone Canadians (e.g.

Maritime provinces. New Brunswick is Canada's only officially-bilingual province.[4] All three territories (the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) include French among their official languages.[5][6][7]

Number of Francophones by province or territory in Canada (2012)[8]
Province or Territory Demonym Number
of Francophones 		Percentage
of the population
Alberta Franco-Albertans 81,085 2.2%
British Columbia Franco-Columbian 70,755 1.6%
Prince Edward Island
Acadiens
 5,685 4.1%
Manitoba
Franco-Manitobains
 47,680 4.0%
New Brunswick
Acadiens & Brayons
 234,410 31.6%
Nova Scotia
Acadiens
 34,585 3.8%
Nunavut
Franco-Nunavois
 450 1.4%
Ontario
Franco-Ontarien
 561,160 4.4%
Québec
 Québécois 6,684,125 85.5 %
Saskatchewan Fransaskois 18,935 1.9%
Newfoundland and Labrador
Franco-Terreneuviens
 3,015 0.6%
Northwest Territories Franco-Ténois 1,175 2.9%
Yukon Franco-Yukonnais 1,630 4.8%

Flags of French Canada

References

  1. ^ Statistique Canada - Le français et la francophonie au Canada
  2. mother tongue
    French, and also those who have, along with French, another mother tongue.
  3. ^ "Carte des communautés francophones et acadiennes – FCFA". Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  4. ^ "History of Official Languages – OCOLNB – CLONB". Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  5. ^ Toolkit, Web Experience (2016-12-28). "The Legislative Assembly of Nunavut adopts the Official Languages Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act". www.clo-ocol.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  6. ^ "Languages Overview | Office of the Official Languages Commissioner of the Northwest Territories". Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  7. ^ Toolkit, Web Experience (2016-12-20). "Yukon adopts its Languages Act". www.clo-ocol.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  8. ^ "Population selon la langue maternelle et les groupes d'âge (Total), chiffres de 2011, pour le Canada, les provinces et les territoires".

This article has been partially or totally translated from the French-language article Canadiens francophones.

See also

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