English Canada

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{{Short description|English-speaking population, territory, culture, or society within Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=August 2017}}
{{dicdef|date=March 2022}}
[[File:Bilinguisme au Canada-fr.svg|upright=1.1|thumb|alt=Map of Canada with English speakers and French speakers at a percentage|Approximately 98 percent of Canadians can speak either or both English and French:<ref>{{cite web |title=2006 Census: The Evolving Linguistic Portrait, 2006 Census: Highlights |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-555/p1-eng.cfm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429013140/http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-555/p1-eng.cfm |archive-date=April 29, 2011 |access-date=October 12, 2010 |publisher=[[Statistics Canada]], {{Text|Dated 2006}}}}</ref><small>{{Legend|#FFE400|English – 56.9%}}{{Legend|#D8A820|English and French – 16.1%}}{{Legend|#B07400|French – 21.3%}}{{Legend|#F5F5DC|Sparsely populated area ( < 0.4 persons per km<sup>2</sup>)}}</small>]]
'''English Canada''' comprises that part of the population within [[Canada]], whether of [[British Canadians|British origin]] or otherwise, that speaks [[English language|English]].

The term ''English Canada'' is also used for any of the following:
*Describing all the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provinces of Canada]] that have an [[anglophone]] majority. This is every province except [[Quebec]]. When used in this way, ''English Canada'' is often referred to as the "ROC" (rest of Canada). This type of usage excludes French-speaking areas in English-majority provinces like the East and North of [[New Brunswick]], [[Northern Ontario|Northern]] and [[Eastern Ontario]], [[Saint-Boniface, Manitoba|Saint-Boniface]] and the few small pockets of French localities in [[Western Canada]]. It also excludes areas where a third language is widely spoken, such as German, Russian or [[ Indigenous languages of the Americas|First Nations languages]].
*When discussing the culture, values and lifestyles of [[Canadian English|English-speaking Canadians]] as opposed to those of [[Canadian French|French-speaking Canadians]]. This usage is most often employed to compare English- and French-language literature, media, art and institutions.
*When discussing the [[Two Solitudes (Canadian society)|Two Solitudes]], in which English Canada (i.e. the anglophones of Canada) is one of two founding nations of Canada along with French Canada (i.e. the francophones of Canada), and in which these two societies share a country but rarely communicate with each other.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Forsey|first=Eugene A.|date=1962|title=Canada: Two Nations or One?|journal=The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science |volume=28|issue=4|pages=485–501|doi=10.2307/139291|issn=0315-4890|jstor=139291}}</ref> The term was often used during the [[Conscription Crisis of 1917|conscription crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?Lang=1&accessnumber=M965.199.3350&idImage=231258|title=Musée McCord Museum - To Which Voice Will He Listen?|website=collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=2021-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206223136/http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?Lang=1&accessnumber=M965.199.3350&idImage=231258|url-status=dead}}</ref> The population whose native language is neither English nor French are often included into one of the two [[Official languages of Canada|official languages]] or are classified as [[Allophone (Quebec)|allophones]].<ref name="allophone">{{cite web|date=8 May 2014|title=Allophone|url=http://www.parli.ca/allophone/|access-date=17 August 2017|website=parli.ca|publisher=Campbell Strategies Inc.|location=Toronto}}</ref>
*''[[English Canadians]]'', in some contexts, refers to Canadians who have origins in England, in contrast to [[French Canadians]], [[Scottish Canadians]], [[Irish Canadians]], etc.
*All of the English speaking parts of each province of Canada (Quebec also included in this definition), not including the predominantly French speaking parts.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

==See also==
{{Portal|England|Canada}}
*[[Demolinguistic descriptors used in Canada]]
*[[Official bilingualism in Canada]]
*[[French Canada]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Culture of Canada]]
[[Category:Culture of Quebec]]
[[Category:English-language culture|Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian people of English descent|*]]
[[Category:Linguistic geography of Canada]]
{{Canadian identity}}

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