LANG Committee Report
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APPENDIX A
Minority-language populations in Canada, 2001
|
Territory/Province |
Total |
Mother tongue |
|
|
Number |
% |
||
|
Newfoundland |
508,080 |
2,360 |
0.5 |
|
Prince Edward Island |
133,400 |
5,890 |
4.4 |
|
Nova Scotia |
897,565 |
35,380 |
3.9 |
|
New Brunswick |
713,755 |
236,665 |
33.3 |
|
Quebec (anglophones) |
7,125,545 |
591,365 |
8.7 |
|
Ontario |
11,285,540 |
509,265 |
4.5 |
|
Manitoba |
1,103,690 |
45,920 |
4.2 |
|
Saskatchewan |
963,160 |
18,645 |
1.9 |
|
Alberta |
2,941,130 |
62,240 |
2.1 |
|
British Columbia |
3,868,856 |
58,891 |
1.5 |
|
Yukon |
28,550 |
945 |
3.3 |
|
NWT |
37,110 |
1,000 |
2.8 |
|
Nunavut |
26,645 |
400 |
1.6 |
|
TOTAL (official-language minority communities) |
29,633,026 |
1,568,966 |
5.4 |
|
TOTAL (francophones excluding Quebec) |
22,513,495 |
980,270 |
4,4 |
| Source: | Statistics Canada, 2001 Census: Analysis series. Profile of Languages in Canada: English, French and Many Others, December 2002, p. 26. |