Official language minority communities with at least one school in the minority language

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Table 1: Population by first official language spoken and bilingualism, provinces and territories Canada (2021)
Province or territory French-speaking population English-speaking population Bilingual population (English and French)
Newfoundland-and-Labrador 2,283 (0.5%) 501,818 (99.4%) 25,950 (5.1%)
Prince Edward Island 4,558 (3.0%) 146,473 (96.1%) 19,385 (12.7%)
Nova Scotia 27,935 (2.9%) 928,020 (96.8%) 98,940 (10.3%)
New Brunswick 231,850 (30.3%) 531,070 (69.5%) 260,120 (34.0%)
Quebec 7,074,328 (84.1%) 1,253,578 (14.9%) 3,898,980 (46.4%)
Ontario 533,560 (3.8%) 13,228,670 (93.8%) 1,519,365 (10,8%)
Manitoba 38,378 (2.9%) 1,271,893 (95.9%) 110,435 (8.3%)
Saskatchewan 12,243 (1.1%) 1,095,598 (98.2%) 51,5970 (4.7%)
Alberta 72,203 (1.7%) 4,085,898 (96.8%) 258,335 (6.1%)
British Columbia 65,568 (1.3%) 4,727,268 (95.5%) 326,865 (6.6%)
Yukon 1,895 (4.8%) 37,805 (94.9%) 5,660 (14.2%)
Northwest Territories 1,213 (3.0%) 39,133 (96.5%) 4,295 (10.6%)
Nunavut 623 (1.7%) 34,003 (92.8%) 1,390 (3.8%)
Total 8,066,633 (22.0%) 27,881,223 (76.1%) 6,581,690 (18.0%)

Source: Official Languages Branch, Canadian Heritage, 2023, based on data from the 2021 Census of Canada, Statistics Canada, 100% sample, and Canadian Heritage institutional database, 2023

Note: The language definition used to determine the number of Anglophones and Francophones is the first official language spoken (FOLS). FOLS is a derived variable based on the responses to language questions in the Census of Canada.

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