1. Canada

2. What IS Canada? This is most likely a discussion you have had with your friends/family/school mates already. 1) Think on you own (silently) what Canada is. 2) In a small group or in pairs discuss what Canada is. Write down ideas 3) We will talk about it together

3. REsults Multicultural Free healthcare fantasy of canada: ride polar bears cold free peace keeping nation place of refuge originally owned by FN Lots of Nat Res Home -- Nice people

4. What Was Canada? Think back to grade 7 history!!! Lets discuss that. Who discovered Canada? What different European groups ‘settled’ Canada?

5. Canada ca. 1700

6. Biggest French Speaking Populations By Percent - Quebec 81.8%, New Brunswick 29.7%, Ontario 2.5%, PEI 2.1% By Population - Quebec 6,085,152, Ontario 304,707, NB 232,975, Alberta 21,374, Manitoba 20,515 Canada total - 6,691,928 people, or 21.4% That means when you are traveling outside of Canada every 5th Canadian you meet will be a Francophone

7. Language Distribution

8. Manitoba Manitoba has a notable French population mostly around Winnipeg with several communities out in the country About 663 Winnipeggers are French-only speakers 72,997 Winnipeggers speak both French and English fluently

9. New Brunswick Is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Approximately 232,975 people of the NB population are Francophone This is roughly 33% of the population of NB

10. Nova Scotia There is also a large population of Acadians in NS - Appx 32,540 French speakers

11. PEI PEI has a Francophone population of 5,345 which isn’t that big, but neither is PEI. It represents about 4% of the population.

12. French Centres Within Ontario Sudbury - 16.3% Francophone Ottawa - 14.9% Francophone and 37% bilingual

13. Mississauga Total native speakers of French in Mississauga is currently 7835 Side note - Mississauga is named such because of a vote between Sheridan and Mississauga (which is a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited this area of Ontario)

15. French speaking Countries of the World Dark Blue - Regions where it is mother tongue Middle Blue - Regions where it is official language Light Blue - Regions where it is second language Green - Regions where it is a minority language

16. Je Me Souviens The motto of Quebec and what is written on the license plates of cars in Quebec. It means simply: I remember. What are they remembering?

17. Homework Pg. 46 in your course package.