Definitions and Notes - Population by mother tongue, by census metropolitan areas (1996 Census)

Definitions

Mother tongue: the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.

Non-official languages: languages other than the two official languages of Canada: English and French.

Census metropolitan area (CMA): a very large urban area (known as the urban core) together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. A CMA has an urban core population of at least 100,000, based on the previous census.

View definitions for 1996 Census Metropolitan Areas: St. John's , Halifax , Saint John , Saguenay , Québec , Sherbrooke , Trois-Rivières , Montréal , Ottawa–Gatineau Ontario–Quebec , Ottawa-Gatineau (Quebec part) , Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) , Kingston , Oshawa , Toronto , Hamilton , St. Catharines–Niagara , Kitchener , London , Windsor , Sudbury, Thunder Bay , Winnipeg , Regina , Saskatoon , Calgary , Edmonton , Abbotsford , Vancouver , Victoria

Notes

1. Single response: the respondent reported only one language as mother tongue.

2. Multiple response: the respondent reported more than one language as mother tongue.