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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.
Provincial services may be accessed in French or English in designated areas under the French Language Services Act. Ontario has a regionalized language policy, where part of the province is English-only and other areas are bilingual. Province-wide services (such as websites and toll-free telephone numbers) are provided in both English and French.
Established in Toronto in 1902, Alliance Française Toronto (AFT) is a 100% Canadian non-profit and charity organization. Alliance Française Toronto has grown to become the largest French language school in Canada, the first Alliance in North America and the sixth worldwide with more than 6,500 students enrolling each year on the five campuses.
The present public French-language elementary and secondary school system originates from education reforms implemented by the province in 1968. [7] French-language rights for resident elementary and secondary school students in Ontario are afforded through the provincial Education Act and Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It was originally founded as the Office of Francophone Affairs (French: Office des affaires francophones) in 1986 by the government of David Peterson, [3] as an expansion of the former Office of the Government Coordinator of French-Language Services. [4] It was upgraded to a full ministry in 2017 by the government of Kathleen Wynne. [5]
The organization was created in 1910 as the Association canadienne-française d'Éducation de l'Ontario (ACFÉO) to lobby for French language education rights in the province. The organization and the Franco-Ontarian community at large faced a serious early crisis when the provincial government adopted Regulation 17 in 1912, effectively banning ...
The Université de l’Ontario français (abbreviated as UOF; lit. ' University of French Ontario ') [note 1] is a French-language public university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university campus is situated in the East Bayfront neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, near the Toronto waterfront.
It changed its name in 2006 from Association des conseillères et des conseillers des écoles publiques de l'Ontario (Ontario French-language school boards Trustees (in English)) to move from an individual membership to school board representation. In 2011, student registration in the provincial Public French-language schools has grown by 48% ...