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Originally Posted by Crawford
On that Canada map, should I read "Canadian" as "Francophone"? It seems to follow the rough contours of Francophone Canada, I think?
And are Francophone Canadians primarily of French descent, at least per Census definitions? If so, why are those Ontario Francophone geographies "French" as opposed to the Quebec "Canadian"?
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In most of Quebec, almost everyone is of "Canadien" stock.
In Ontario, "French" is an ancestry to distinguish from "English" and so on. There's a sizeable francophone minority in Ontario, particularly in eastern and northeastern Ontario but also around Windsor.