{"id":12959,"date":"2019-08-14T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/?p=12959"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:21:49","slug":"ontarios-diverse-francophone-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/ontarios-diverse-francophone-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s diverse Francophone community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario has the largest number of Francophones outside Quebec, somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000, depending on whether mother tongue or first official language spoken is used as the criterion to estimate their numbers. They represent approximately 4% of the province\u2019s total population.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-lire-la-suite\">\n<p>Francophone settlement occurred in waves. The first settlers were inhabitants of New France who moved into what is now Ontario from 1610 to 1760, to trade with Indigenous people and evangelize them. They laid the foundations for the cities of Kingston, Windsor and Toronto. However, Ontario was primarily settled by thousands of Anglophones who arrived from the United States in the 1780s, followed by a flood of British immigrants in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<h4>To learn more about the Franco-Ontarian community, visit these community portraits on the website of The Francophone Heritage, Cultural and Tourism Corridor:<\/h4>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/province_tax\/ontario-en\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ontario\u2019s diverse Francophone community<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/resource\/musee-village-patrimoine-de-cumberland\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francophone vitality in Orl\u00e9ans and the United Counties of Prescott and Russell<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/resource\/sudbury-un-pole-culturel-franco-ontarien-marquant\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudbury, a long-standing hub of Franco-Ontarian culture<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/resource\/le-nord-franco-ontarien-nature-culture-et-chaleur-humaine\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ontario\u2019s Francophone North: Nature, Culture, and Hospitality<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"div-lire-la-suite\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13968 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Logo-Corridor-H-color-e1565806757233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/corridorcanada.ca\/province_tax\/ontario-en\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Francophone Heritage, Cultural and Tourism Corridor\u00a0<\/a>(All rights reserved, RD\u00c9E Canada, 2018)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NOTRE LANGUE\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OF8Ufj9hhlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cr\u00e9dits: JP Bernier (All rights reserved, l&#8217;<i>Association fran\u00e7aise des municipalit\u00e9s de l\u2019Ontario, <\/i>mars 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario has the largest number of Francophones outside Quebec, somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000, depending on whether mother tongue or first official language spoken is used as the criterion to estimate their numbers. They represent approximately 4% of the province\u2019s total population. Francophone settlement occurred in waves. The first settlers were inhabitants of New France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-portraits","category-franco-ontarian-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/drapeau-frOntarien-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14682,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions\/14682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routechamplain.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}