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Feb 7, 2006 · Last Edited December 14, 2015. French is one of Canada’s two official languages. Although every province in Canada has people whose mother tongue is French, Québec is the only province where speakers of French are in the majority. In 2011, 7,054,975 people in Canada (21 per cent of the country’s population) had French as their mother tongue.
French is the native language of over 500,000 persons in Ontario, representing 4.7 percent of the province's population. They are concentrated primarily in the Eastern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario regions, near the border with Quebec, although they are also present in smaller numbers throughout the province.
Further information: Canadian French and French language in Canada. In 2011, just over 7.1 million Canadians spoke French most often at home, this was a rise of 4.2%, although the proportion of people in Canada who spoke French "most often" at home fell slightly from 21.7% to 21.5% .
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain, an explorer working for de Monts, founded the city of Québec and became the main instigator of French colonization in Canada, from Acadia to the Great Lakes. Over the course of a dozen voyages to Canada, Champlain was only able to form a colony of some one hundred people, and the French did not come to stay.
May 30, 2019 · Several languages are used in Canada. However, English and French are the official languages accounting for 57% and 22% of Canadians respectively according to the 2011 census. Over 80% and 30.1% of the country’s population have a working knowledge of English and French respectively. A further 14.2% of the population speaks a language other ...
The Canadian Francophonie by the numbers. Canada has a population of nearly 35 million people. French is the first official language spoken for 22.8% of the population. The majority of Francophones (85.4%) live in Quebec and over 1 million live in other regions of the country. Almost 10.4 million Canadians can carry on a conversation in French.
