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List of francophone communities in Ontario

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This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed.

The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. The majority of Franco-Ontarians in Ontario live in eastern and northeastern Ontario. While most communities in these areas have sizeable French minorities, several municipalities have francophone majorities.

Most such places are designated as French language service areas under the provincial French Language Services Act, meaning that Government of Ontario services must be available in French.

Municipality Type County, district, or regional municipality Total pop.[1] %Francophone[1] # of Francophones
Alfred and Plantagenet Township Prescott and Russell 9,949 71% 7064
Armstrong Township Timiskaming 1,199 52% 623
Beckwith Township Lanark 9,021 5% 451
Black River-Matheson Township Cochrane 2,572 23% 592
Blind River Town Algoma 3,422 14% 479
Bonfield Township Nipissing 2,146 20% 429
Callander Municipality Parry Sound 3,964 9% 357
Carleton Place Town Lanark 12,517 5% 626
Casselman Village Prescott and Russell 3,960 71% 2812
Central Manitoulin Municipality Manitoulin 2,235 4% 89
Champlain Township Prescott and Russell 8,665 59% 5112
Clarence-Rockland City Prescott and Russell 26,505 57% 15108
Chapleau Township Sudbury 1,942 33% 641
Chisholm Township Nipissing 1,312 10% 131
Cochrane Town Cochrane 5,390 33% 1779
Cornwall City Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 47,845 19% 9091
Deep River Town Renfrew 4,175 5% 209
East Ferris Municipality Nipissing 4,946 19% 940
East Hawkesbury Township Prescott and Russell 3,418 58% 1982
Elliot Lake City Algoma 11,372 12% 1365
Englehart Town Timiskaming 1,442 7% 101
Espanola Town Sudbury 5,185 12% 622
French River Municipality Sudbury 2,828 39% 1103
Greater Sudbury City Single-tier municipality 166,004 23% 38181
Greenstone Municipality Thunder Bay 4,309 21% 905
Hawkesbury Town Prescott and Russell 10,194 72% 7340
Hearst Town Cochrane 4,794 84% 4027
Francophone majority Summation 107,031 63% 67,238
Huron Shores Municipality Algoma 1,860 5% 93
Ignace Township Kenora 1,206 7% 84
Iroquois Falls Town Cochrane 4,418 33% 1458
Kapuskasing Town Cochrane 8,057 63% 5076
Kirkland Lake Town Timiskaming 7,750 12% 930
Lakeshore Town Essex 40,410 5% 2021
Laurentian Hills Town Renfrew 2,885 6% 173
Laurentian Valley Township Renfrew 9,450 5% 473
Manitouwadge Township Thunder Bay 1,974 12% 237
Marathon Town Thunder Bay 3,138 9% 282
Markstay-Warren Municipality Sudbury 2,708 30% 812
Mattawa Town Nipissing 1,881 25% 470
Merrickville–Wolford Village Leeds and Grenville 3,135 6% 188
Moonbeam Township Cochrane 1,157 71% 821
Nipissing Indian reserve Nipissing 1,640 14% 230
North Bay City Nipissing 52,662 11% 5793
North Dundas Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 11,304 8% 904
North Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 10,144 35% 3550
North Grenville Municipality Leeds and Grenville 17,964 6% 1078
North Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 7,400 26% 1924
Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands Town Manitoulin 2,641 5% 132
Ottawa City Single-tier municipality 1,017,449 13% 132268
Pembroke City Renfrew 14,364 6% 862
Penetanguishene Town Simcoe 10,077 8% 806
Petawawa Town Renfrew 18,160 10% 1816
Russell Township Prescott and Russell 19,598 38% 7447
Sables-Spanish Rivers Township Sudbury 3,237 9% 291
St. Charles Municipality Sudbury 1,357 41% 556
Smooth Rock Falls Town Cochrane 1,200 58% 696
South Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,330 25% 3333
South Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,570 14% 1900
Temiskaming Shores City Timiskaming 9,634 28% 2698
Terrace Bay Township Thunder Bay 1,528 4% 61
The Nation Municipality Prescott and Russell 13,350 63% 8411
Timmins City Cochrane 41,145 33% 13578
Tiny Township Simcoe 12,966 7% 908
Wawa Municipality Algoma 2,705 17% 460
Welland City Niagara 55,750 7% 3903
West Nipissing Municipality Nipissing 14,583 56% 8166

A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. These include the francophone-majority municipalities of Dubreuilville (79%), Fauquier-Strickland (68%), Mattice-Val Côté (82%), Opasatika (63%), and Val Rita-Harty (71%).

Small francophone-minority municipalities include Baldwin (11%), Billings (10%), Brethour (10%), Calvin (10%), Casey (42%), Chamberlain (6%), Chapleau Cree Fox Lake (8%), Charlton and Dack (5%), Cobalt (13%), Coleman (25%), Dokis (10%), Dorion (5%), Evanturel (9%), Gauthier (17%), Harley (28%), Harris (30%), Head, Clara and Maria (6%), Hornepayne (10%), Hilliard (21%), Hudson (18%), James (19%), Jocelyn (7%), Kerns (11%), Larder Lake (19%), Latchford (11%), Matachewan (17%), Matachewan (15%), Mattagami (5%), Mattawan (26%), McGarry (38%), Nairn and Hyman (9%), Temagami (13%), The North Shore (15%), Papineau-Cameron (22%), Spanish (18%), Thornloe (28%), and White River (13%).

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References

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  1. ^ a b "2021 Census Profile". 29 March 2023.