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Yeah, there's Hearst and there's also Hawkesbury and Casselman in eastern Ontario between Ottawa and Montreal. The latter two have similar francophone shares of their population - just under 90% I think.
Francophone towns with anglophone names anywhere in Canada including Quebec were generally company towns. The company owners and bosses were anglophones and the labour and general population were primarily francophones. Often the population of these towns was mainly francophone from the get-go, or at least very early on.
Yeah, there's Hearst and there's also Hawkesbury and Casselman in eastern Ontario between Ottawa and Montreal. The latter two have similar francophone shares of their population - just under 90% I think.
I've read that Sudbury is something like 16 percent Francophone and Timmins nearly 40 percent. Not sure if you or anyone else has been there but I'm curious to know if you can actually get by with just French in any of these places (as a visitor, not career-wise). Do you get a hi-bonjour at stores?
I've read that Sudbury is something like 16 percent Francophone and Timmins nearly 40 percent. Not sure if you or anyone else has been there but I'm curious to know if you can actually get by with just French in any of these places (as a visitor, not career-wise). Do you get a hi-bonjour at stores?
Not really. It takes a much higher percentage of francophones in the population outside Quebec to get systematic bilingual services that the percentage of anglophones seemingly required for the same in Quebec.
Sudbury is actually probably about one third francophone. Timmins is about as you said. Cornwall is a quarter to a third. In none of these cities is French service anywhere near English service in Montreal. Same goes for Ottawa where 15% of the city is francophone, but Gatineau is literally right next door and 85% francophone. Yet French service in Ottawa is very hit and miss. English service in Gatineau is much easier to obtain.
The only places in Ontario where you can truly count on service in French are these places where the overwhelmingly majority of people are francophones: Hearst, Hawkesbury, Casselman.
As soon as the francophone share goes below even two thirds, French service in businesses, etc. becomes rarer and even starts to disappear.
I've read that Sudbury is something like 16 percent Francophone and Timmins nearly 40 percent. Not sure if you or anyone else has been there but I'm curious to know if you can actually get by with just French in any of these places (as a visitor, not career-wise). Do you get a hi-bonjour at stores?
I'm from Sudbury and now living in Gatineau, QC....annnnnd I don't really speak French. I feel like Sudbury has quite possibly more than 16% of its population Francophone. Laurentian University is one of few universities that delivers pretty well any of its programs in French. We also have a college that is entirely French-speaking. I always kind of felt like every fourth or fifth person around had the language at their disposal. Well, like, a Northern Ontario version of it, anyways.
The only places in Ontario where you can truly count on service in French are these places where the overwhelmingly majority of people are francophones: Hearst, Hawkesbury, Casselman.
As soon as the francophone share goes below even two thirds, French service in businesses, etc. becomes rarer and even starts to disappear.
Maybe Kaspuskasing too? It is 2/3rds French-speaking.
Of the cities that speak French, which are old towns like Quebec?
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