Francophone Canadians

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[1] of the population, were Francophone, including 7,274,090 people who declared that they had French as their mother tongue, or 22% of the population.[2]

Not to be confused with French Canadian.

Distribution
French administrative map of Canada.

Six million French-speaking Canadians reside in Quebec, where they constitute the main linguistic group, and another one million reside in other Canadian regions. Most Francophones outside Quebec live in Ontario, but some can also be found in certain regions of New Brunswick, and a few in southern Manitoba. 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. Canadians of French Canadian or French origin are also not all exclusively Francophone, even if a very large majority are.

Unlike Francophones in Quebec, who generally identify simply as Québécois, Francophones outside Quebec generally identify as Francophone Canadians (e.g. Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Manitobans, etc.). It is important to note that Acadians constitute their own cultural group. They live in the cultural and historical region of Acadia in the Maritime provinces. In addition, only the province of New Brunswick is officially bilingual.

Number of Francophones by province or territory in Canada (2012)[3]
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. All statistics on the number of Francophones in this article include speakers of mother tongue French, and also those who have, along with French, another mother tongue.
  3. "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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