List of francophone communities in British Columbia
April 12, 2024
This is a list of francophone communities in British Columbia. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of British Columbia are listed.
The provincial average of British Columbians whose mother tongue is French is 1.2%, with a total of 57,420 people in British Columbia who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. While several communities in these have sizeable French minorities, no municipalities have francophone majorities.
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