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French Canadians (French: Canadiens français), referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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 2011, 9,809,155 people in Canada, or 30.1 percent [1] of the population spoke French, including 7,274,090 people, or 22 percent of the population, who declared 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.
Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French, recorded ...
Le choc des patois en Nouvelle-France, Sillery: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 204 p. Bouchard, Chantal (2011). Méchante langue: la légitimité linguistique du français parlé au Québec (in French). Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal. ISBN 978-2-7606-2284-5. Dulong, Gaston (1966). Bibliographie linguistique du Canada ...
Canadian French; Français canadien: Pronunciation [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃]: Native to: Canada (primarily Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, but present throughout the country); smaller numbers in emigrant communities in New England (especially Maine and Vermont), United States
The Société du parler français au Canada (SPFC) ("French Speech in Canada Society") was a learned society that endeavoured to study the French language spoken in Canada in the course of the 20th century. Founded on February 18, 1902 [1] by Adjutor Rivard and Stanislas-Alfred Lortie, [1] two Université Laval professors, it made important ...
The Charter of the French Language (French: La charte de la langue française), also known as Bill 101 (French: Loi 101), is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government. It is the central piece of legislation that forms Quebec's ...