Francophone immigration beyond the Bilingual Belt: wasting a precious resource

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion, Summer-Fall, 2008 by Charles Castonguay

(19) Bernard Lord, Report on the Government of Canada's Consultations on Linguistic Duality and Official Languages (Ottawa: Canadian Heritage, 2008).

Charles Castonguay is an adjunct professor in the mathematics and statistics department at the University of Ottawa. The author wishes to acknowledge the support of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant while preparing this paper.

TABLE 1: FRANCOPHONES AGED 25-34 OUTSIDE QUEBEC BY PLACE OF BIRTH,
2001

                       BORN IN PROVINCE   BORN IN QUEBEC   BORN ABROAD
                             (%)               (%)             (%)

Newfoundland                  27                40              8
Prince Edward Island          S7                11              4
Nova Scotia                   52                25              4
New Brunswick                 85                 9              2
Ontario                       64                24              7
Manitoba                      76                10              3
Saskatchewan                  58                15              6
Alberta                       27                35              7
British Columbia              10                51             13
Territories                    0                58              4

Source: 2001 census custom tabulation.

TABLE 2: FRANCOPHONES AGED 25-34 BY PLACE OF BIRTH, CERTAIN
METROPOLITAN AREAS OUTSIDE QUEBEC, 2001.

            BORN IN PROVINCE (%)   BORN IN QUEBEC (%)   BORN ABROAD (%)

Halifax              22                    44                  5
Moncton              82                     9                  3
Ottawa               62                    25                  7
Sudbury              92                     6                  1
Toronto              32                    38                 21
Winnipeg             75                    10                  3
Edmonton             32                    30                  5
Calgary              13                    44                 10
Vancouver             9                    52                 19

Source: 2001 census custom tabulation.

TABLE 3: ANGLICIZATION RATE OF FRANCOPHONES AGED 45-54 OUTSIDE QUEBEC
BY PLACE OF BIRTH, 2001

                       BORN IN PROVINCE   BORN IN QUEBEC   BORN ABROAD
                             (%)               (%)             (%)

Newfoundland                  62                59             60
Prince Edward Island          66                63             43
Nova Scotia                   45                63             61
New Brunswick                 12                13             20
Ontario                       47                44             53
Manitoba                      67                56             46
Saskatchewan                  87                81             53
Alberta                       83                67             63
British Columbia              89                71             65

Source: 2001 census custom tabulation.

TABLE 4: ANGLICIZATION RATE OF FRANCOPHONES AGED 45-54 BY PLACE OF
BIRTH

            BORN IN PROVINCE (%)   BORN IN QUEBEC (%)   BORN ABROAD (%)

Halifax              89                    63                 49
Moncton              25                    23                 20
Ottawa               33                    31                 32
Sudbury              48                    36                 37
Toronto              78                    62                 59
Winnipeg             69                    57                 52
Edmonton             86                    63                 54
Calgary              90                    73                 68
Vancouver            85                    68                 61

Source: 2001 census custom tabulation.

TABLE 5: PROPORTION OF FRANCOPHONE WORKERS USING ENGLISH AS MAIN
LANGUAGE OF WORK, CERTAIN METROPOLITAN AREAS OUTSIDE QUEBEC, 2006

            TOTAL (%)   NON-IMMIGRANTS (%)   IMMIGRANTS (%)

Halifax        86               86                 79
Moncton        52               52                 52
Ottawa         63               63                 57
Sudbury        77               77                 41
Toronto        84               86                 80
Winnipeg       79               79                 65
Edmonton       90               90                 91
Calgary        91               91                 89
Vancouver      88               89                 86

Source: 2006 census summary table 97-555-XCB2006033.