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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: First Official Language Spoken (7), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2003 Representation Order), 2011 Census

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This table details first official language spoken , detailed language spoken most often at home , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in St. Catharines
Detailed language spoken most often at home (232) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Detailed language spoken most often at home 109,985 106,570 2,270 355 795 2,450 2.2
Single responses 107,395 104,190 2,145 270 790 2,280 2.1
English 99,345 97,905 1,435 0 0 1,440 1.4
French 735 45 690 0 0 690 93.9
Non-official languages 7,325 6,240 15 270 790 150 2.0
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wetsuweten 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlicho (Dogrib) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarcee 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mohawk 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitksan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuvialuktun 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages 1,980 1,610 5 80 285 45 2.3
Italian 680 515 0 15 150 10 1.5
Portuguese 60 50 0 0 10 5 8.3
Romanian 50 30 0 15 5 5 10.0
Spanish 1,195 1,015 0 60 120 30 2.5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Romance languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 540 505 0 15 15 10 1.9
Dutch 55 55 0 0 0 5 9.1
Flemish 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
German 460 430 0 10 15 5 1.1
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scandinavian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 0 0 5 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Gaelic languages 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,525 1,305 5 75 145 35 2.3
Belarusian (Byelorussian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 65 55 0 5 5 0 0.0
Bulgarian 35 35 0 5 0 0 0.0
Croatian 70 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Czech 50 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Macedonian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Polish 735 635 0 35 65 20 2.7
Russian 225 180 0 5 40 5 2.2
Serbian 60 45 0 10 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovenian 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 200 175 5 10 15 10 5.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 75 65 0 5 10 0 0.0
Armenian 85 70 0 5 15 5 5.9
Albanian 65 55 0 5 5 0 0.0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finno-Ugric languages 125 115 0 5 10 0 0.0
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 95 85 0 0 10 0 0.0
Turkic languages 25 20 0 5 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 25 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages 775 650 5 45 80 25 3.2
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages 755 630 5 45 75 25 3.3
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Arabic 735 615 5 45 75 25 3.4
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-Iranian languages 535 485 0 5 40 5 0.9
Indo-Aryan languages 340 310 0 0 30 0 0.0
Bengali 45 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Gujarati 55 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 40 35 0 0 0 5 12.5
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 25 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 150 140 0 0 10 0 0.0
Nepali 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 195 180 0 0 15 0 0.0
Kurdish 95 85 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pashto 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 85 80 0 0 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Dravidian languages 30 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 25 20 0 5 5 0 0.0
Telugu 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Korean 170 145 0 5 20 5 2.9
Sino-Tibetan languages 775 685 0 10 85 5 0.6
Chinese languages 770 680 0 5 80 5 0.6
Cantonese 95 80 0 0 20 0 0.0
Chaochow (Teochow) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fukien 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 225 210 0 0 15 0 0.0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Taiwanese 5 0 0 0 0 suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act x
Chinese, n.o.s. 445 395 0 5 45 0 0.0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai languages 120 85 0 5 25 0 0.0
Lao 110 80 0 0 25 5 4.5
Thai 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 175 130 0 10 35 0 0.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 70 45 0 5 15 5 7.1
Vietnamese 105 80 0 5 15 5 4.8
Malayo-Polynesian languages 180 180 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bisayan languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pampango 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 170 165 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 40 30 5 10 0 5 12.5
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bantu languages 30 20 0 5 0 5 16.7
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0 5 100.0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creoles 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Non-verbal languages 40 25 0 0 15 0 0.0
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Other languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 2,585 2,375 125 80 0 165 6.4
English and French 215 50 105 65 0 130 60.5
English and non-official language 2,300 2,295 5 0 0 5 0.2
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0 0 10 66.7
English, French and non-official language 55 20 10 20 0 20 36.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011040.

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