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Correction notice

Portrait of Official-Language Minorities in Canada – Francophones in Ontario
By Jean-Pierre Corbeil and Sylvie Lafrenière

Catalogue number: 89-642-X 2010001
Reference period: 2006
Original release date: May 14, 2010-10-01

Corrections have been made to this product.

The publication was reloaded on (October, 20), 2010

Errors were found in parts of the text, charts and tables. Moreover, in order to clarify the text we judge it necessary to add a few sentences to this document.

Resolution: 
The text and data in the tables and charts for both the HTML and PDF versions were corrected and replaced. 

Please note the following changes:

Chart 3.2.2 the title was changed to: Percentage of children under 18 years of age living in a family where at least one parent is of French-mother tongue, by mother tongue of parents, Ontario, 1971 and 2006

Chart 3.2.3 the title was changed to: Percentage of children under 18 years of age living in a family where at least one parent is of French-mother tongue, by mother tongue of parents, Ontario and regions, 2006

Chart 3.2.4 an English-French category was added

Chart 3.6.4, years in title were changed to 1996, 2001 and 2006

Table 3.4.5 data for language spoken at least regularly at home are now 544,030 – 4.5% and data for language spoken regularly at home are now 222,480 – 1.8%

Table 3.4.6 percentages were replaced:

	Complete transfer	Complete transfer	Partial transfer	Partial transfer	Total	Total
South-East	10.7	7.6	15.1	10.7	25.7	18.3
North-East	16.9	16.3	19.1	18.4	36.0	34.7

Table 3.7.2.1 The percentage in the Proportion of immigrants among the French-speaking population in 2006 was changed to 12.7%.

Table 4.1 The source was changed to Statistics Canada, Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities, 2006.

Table 4.2.2 The total population of lawyers in the rest of Ontario is now 12,435.

In section 3.2

The paragraph under chart 3.2.2 was changed to:

The proportion of children living in an exogamous family also varies according to the region of the province in which these families live (see chart 3.2.3). The propensity for children to live in a family with both parents having French as their mother tongue was greatest in the South-East (59%) whereas in Toronto and the "Rest" of the province, the corresponding proportions were 19% and 15% respectively. It is worth noting that while only 2% of the population of Toronto has French as a mother tongue, the propensity for children to live in an exogamous family (English-French) is roughly the same as observed in Ottawa (56%) and the North-East of the province (52%). At the same time, Toronto stands out from the other regions in that nearly one child in four lives in a family with one partner with French as a mother tongue and another with a mother tongue other than French or English.

A paragraph was added under chart 3.2.3:

Between 1971 and 2006, among couples with at least one partner with French as a mother tongue, the proportion of French-English and French-"other"-language exogamous couples greatly increased in Ontario, going from 39% to 56%, and 6% to 9% respectively, during this same period. Conversely, the proportion of endogamous couples with two partners with French as a mother tongue has substantially decreased, going from 54% in 1971 to 35% in 2006.

Under chart 3.2.4 in the second sentence of the first paragraph, we changed the two percentages: In 2006, 38% of French-mother-tongue mothers whose spouse had English as a mother tongue transmitted French to their children, compared to only 16% of French-mother-tongue fathers.....

Also in the last sentence of this first paragraph we changed the second percentage: ...couples were 12% and 10% respectively.

Under section 3.4

In the second sentence of the second paragraph, we replaced Francophones with Ontarians: Thus, in 1971, approximately 30% of Ontarians with French as a mother tongue...

On page 31 of the PDF, in the first paragraph we replaced the third sentence with: Data drawn from the Census of the population also show that 222,480 Franco-Ontarians reported speaking French on a regular basis at home, although not as their main home language.

In the last sentence of the same paragraph, 4.7% of the population was replaced with 4.5% of the population.

On page 32 of the PDF, we modified the second sentence of the first paragraph to:
For example, the language transfer rate in the South-East region is 18%, including 8% complete transfers and 11% partial transfers.

Under section 3.7.2

In the last sentence of the third paragraph, we modified the two percentages, the sentence was replaced by:
Furthermore, whereas the relative weight of the immigrant population within the province's Francophone population was approximately 13% in the last census, the relative weight of the immigrant population with English as its first official language spoken was roughly 28% of the Anglophone population (table 3.7.2.1).

Under section 4.2

On page 50 of the PDF, we modified the number of lawyers and notaries in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph to: According to the 2006 Census, Ontario had 9,500 lawyers or notaries....