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Canadian French is an umbrella term for the different dialects of French spoken in Canada and the rest of North America, including Quebec French, Vermont French, and Acadian French.

French is one of Canada's two official languages; the other is English and is the language of the majority (see Canadian English). First-language speakers of French make up about 23% of the population of Canada and 90% of them live in Quebec.

1 Quebec

Quebec is the only province whose sole official language is French, and is the only province of Canada where this population is not in decline. Quebec French is substantially different in pronunciation and vocabulary, though easily mutually comprehensible, with the French of the Académie française. This is due to the long history of French in Canada and the fact that French immigrants to Canada kept speaking the French of the Ancien Régime while in France the French revolution led to the standardization of bourgeois Parisian French .

2 Maritimes

French is one of the two official languages of the province of New Brunswick. Acadian French is spoken in the Canadian Maritimes ( AcadiaThere is a also a U. national park called Acadia National Park . national flag of Acadia, adopted in 1884. Acadia (in French Acadie , named after the mythical Arcadia, was the name given by the French to a territory including today's Canadian Maritime pro), and is ancestor of CajunCajuns are an ethnic group consisting essentially of the descendants of Acadians who came from Nova Scotia to Louisiana as a result of their refusal to swear allegiance to the British Crown. The word "Cajun" is a corruption of the French pronunciation of French. New Brunswick has the largest Acadian population, and is the only province that is officially bilingual.

3 Ontario

French is the native language of nearly half a million French-Canadians in Northern OntarioNorthern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario, Canada, which lies north of Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario covers 1 million square kilometres and constitutes 90 per cent of the surface area of Onta, however a third of them no longer speak the language at home. The mining boom of the early 20th century attracted many French-speaking Quebecers to Northern Ontario. The province has no official language, however it is de facto an English-speaking province. Government services are provided in French "where numbers warrant" as with the federal government.