• 3.2 Language policies of Canada's provinces and territories. 3.2.1 Officially bilingual or multilingual: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the three territories.
  • Canada has two official languages at the federal level of government: English and French. That’s a small increase of 350,000 over the 2006 Census of Canada...
  • Official languages of Canada. Redirect to: Official bilingualism in Canada.
  • Learn more about Canada’s languages and the tools and programs in place to help protect, celebrate and strengthen linguistic duality in Canada.
  • Further information: Historiography of Canada. Indigenous peoples. Colour-coded map of North America showing the distribution of North American language...
  • English and French are the two official languages of Canada, and they are the most widely spoken languages in the country.
  • The aboriginal languages of Canada — much like the aboriginal people themselves — were almost entirely wiped out by European settlers.
  • A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867, while retaining ties to the British crown.
  • The FOLS definition is derived from three federal census questions: knowledge of Canada’s official languages, mother tongue, and home language.
  • The areas of Canada where French is spoken. In the rest of the territory, English predominates, which is the majority language of the country.