Canadian Provinces and Territories Translated to French

Canadian Provinces and Territories Translated to French Canada is officially a bilingual country, so each Canadian province and territory has both an English and a French name. Notice which are feminine and which are masculine. Knowing the gender will help you choose the correct definite article and geographical prepositions to use with each province and territory. In Canada, since 1897, names on official federal government maps have been authorized through a national committee, now known as the  Geographical Names Board of Canada  (GNBC). This includes both English and French names  since both languages are official in Canada. 10m of 33.5m Canadians Speak French According to the countrys  2011  Census of Population, in 2011, close to 10  million in a total national population of 33.5  million reported being able to conduct a conversation in French, compared with less than 9.6  million in 2006.  However, the proportion of those being able to speak French declined slightly to 30.1% in 2011, from 30.7% five years earlier. (The total Canadian population is estimated to have grown to  36.7  in 2017 since the 2011 Canadian census.) 7.3m of 33.5m Canadians Call French Their Mother Tongue Approximately 7.3  million Canadians reported French as their mother tongue  and 7.9  million spoke French at home at least on a regular basis. The number of Canadians  with French as their first official language spoken increased from 7.4  million in 2006 to 7.7  million in 2011. Canadas francophonie  is centered in Quebec, where  6,231,600, or 79.7 percent of Quebecers, consider  French their mother tongue. Many more speak French at home:  6,801,890, or 87 percent of the Quebec population. Outside Quebec, three-quarters of those reporting they speak French at home live in  New  Brunswick or Ontario, while the presence of French has grown in Alberta and British Columbia.​ The 10 Canadian Provinces   French English L'Alberta Alberta La Colombie-Britannique British Columbia Le Manitoba Manitoba Le Nouveau-Brunswick New Brunswick La Nouvelle-Écosse Nova Scotia L'Ontario Ontario Le Quà ©bec Quebec La Saskatchewan Saskatchewan La Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador ÃŽle-du-Prince-Édouard Prince Edward Island The 3 Canadian Territories French English Le Nunavut Nunavut Les Territoires du Nord-Ouest Northwest Territories Le Yukon (Territoire) Yukon (Territory) ​