Canada has one of the lowest population densities in the world: at present 32 million people live in Canada. Almost a third of the entire population lives in the great metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Nearly half the population of Canada is of British origin. They form the majority of the people in the Atlantic provinces and in Ontario. About 25% are of French origin. A quarter of the population is of neither French nor British origin. Most of these Canadians came from European countries, escaping from poverty, war or tyranny. At least one Canadian in twenty is of German origin, one in thirty of Italian, one in forty of Ukrainian, and one in fifty of Dutch descent. Today most of the immigrants come from Asia.[E1][I1]

The indigenous Amerindian and Inuit groups [E1][E2][F1][S1][I1] represent only 1.5% of the population.

The official languages are English and French [E1][E2][F1][F2][S1], although 61% of the population speak English as their native language while 24% speak French. The remainder have a native tongue other than French or English. Almost a hundred languages are spoken throughout the country.

Canada is a country of immigrants [E1][F1][I1] and therefore it is a multicultural blend of different people, different backgrounds, different races and different religions. Almost all ethnic backgrounds are represented in Canada, making Canada one of the most multicultural [E1][E2][F1] [F2][S1][I1] countries in the world.

French Canadians [E1][S1]

The fact of the French is the first point to be made about French Canadians. They live, work, love in French.
They are inhabitants of Canada who can trace their ancestry and cultural identity to colonists from France who settled the area that is now Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island during Canada's 17th and 18th century colonial period. Most are now located in Quebec, New Brunswick(the only bilingual province in Canada), Manitoba and Ontario, although they are present in smaller numbers throughout Canada. Six million of Canada's French speakers are found in the province of Quebec, where they constitute the majority language group, and another one million are distributed throughout the rest of Canada.