English-speaking Quebecer
English-speaking Quebecer
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Total population
Mother tongue: 575,555 (7.7%)[1]
Home language: 744,430 (10%) [1]
Official Language Minority: 918,955 (12.9%)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Canada
Quebec
Montreal, Outaouais, Montérégie Eastern
Townships, Laurentians, Gaspé, Lower North
Shore, Nord-du-Québec
Languages
English, French
Religion
Roman Catholic (43%), Protestant (21%),
Christian Orthodox (9%), Jewish (7%), Muslim
(5%)
Related ethnic groups
English Canadian, Irish Canadian, Scottish
Canadian, French Canadian, Italian Canadian,
Greek Canadian, Arab Canadian, Chinese
Canadian, African Canadian
English-speaking Quebecers (also known
as Anglo-Quebecers, English Quebecers,
or Anglophone Quebecers;
in French
Anglo-Québécois, Québécois Anglophone,
or simply Anglo) refers to the English-speak-
ing (anglophone) minority of the primarily
French-speaking (francophone) province of
Quebec, Canada. The English-speaking com-
munity in Quebec constitutes an official lin-
guistic minority population under Canadian
law.[3]
Unlike other minorities, English-speaking
Quebecers are not an ethnic group,[4] with
large emigration to other provinces, inter-
marriage with francophones, and waves of
immigration renewing the face of the com-
munity every generation. This makes estimat-
ing the population difficult. According to the
2006 Canadian census, 575,555 (7.7% of pop-
ulation) in Quebec declare English as their
only mother tongue, 744,430 (10%) use
mostly English as their home language, and
918,955 (12.9%) comprise the Official Lan-
guage Minority, having English as their First
Official language spoken.[2]
Communities
See
also:
List
of
Anglo-Quebecer
communities
Montreal
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The English-speaking community of Montreal
is extremely diverse, having always been in-
fluenced by successive waves of immigration
into the city; even today 36% of anglophones
in Quebec were born outside Can