French Canadians
French Canadian (Canadien or Canadien français in French) refers to a nation or ethnic group that comes from Canada in the period of French colonization in the 1600s. They are the main French-speaking population of Canada. It may also refer to people of French descent living in Canada, or native speakers of French in Canada.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 5,077,215 in Canada (self-identified by ancestry, 2011 Census)[1] c. 10,000,000 (French-speaking Canadians) c. 2,100,842 in United States | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Canada, especially Quebec, New Brunswick, and Northern or Eastern Ontario, significant minority found in the United States (French Canadian Americans), mostly found in Louisiana, New England, New York and Michigan | |
| Languages | |
| French, English | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholic, minority Protestant | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| French, Bretons, Acadians, Cajuns, Métis, French Americans, French Canadian Americans, French Haitians, Brayons |
French Canadians Media
Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall by Frances Anne Hopkins
Habitants by Cornelius Krieghoff (1852)
Distribution of the proportion of French Canadian across Canada.
Distribution of French in the United States
Major ethnicities in Canada, 2021.
English (en): Linguistic map of the province of Quebec (source: Statistics Canada, 2006 census)* francophone majo
Map of French language ability in Ontario according to the 2021 census.
Distribution of French Americans in the United States (c. 2000)
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada. 2011 National Household Survey: Data tables. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
Other websites
Media related to French Canadians at Wikimedia Commons
- Multicultural Canada website Archived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine includes seven full-text searchable French Canadian newspapers from Ontario and Quebec
