Table 2.1
Population by mother tongue, Manitoba, 1951 to 2006

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Table 2.1
Population by mother tongue, Manitoba, 1951 to 2006

Table summary
This table displays the results of population by mother tongue. This information is grouped by year (appearing as row headers) and by mother tongue, total, french, english, other languages (appearing as column headers), calculated using number and percentage as a unit of measure.
Year Mother tongue
Total French English Other
languages
number number % number % number %
1951 776,540 54,200 7.0 467,890 60.3 254,450 32.8
1961 921,685 60,900 6.6 584,525 63.4 276,260 30.0
1971 988,245 60,485 6.1 662,130 67.0 265,630 26.8
1981 1,013,700 51,620 5.1 731,500 72.2 230,575 22.7
1991 1,079,390 50,775 4.7 793,325 73.5 235,285 21.8
1996 1,100,295 49,100 4.5 822,260 74.7 228,940 20.8
2001 1,103,695 45,935 4.2 831,815 75.4 225,950 20.5
2006 1,133,515 45,515 4.0 845,595 74.6 242,400 21.4
Notes: Except for the 1951 to 1971 censuses, multiple responses were equally redistributed among the three main linguistic groups. Due to the random rounding of numbers, some totals may not correspond to the sum of the numbers presented in the table.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1951 to 2006.
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