English-speaking Quebecer

English-speaking Quebecer

English-speaking Quebecers (also known as Anglo-Quebecers, English Quebecers, or Anglophone Quebecers, all with the optional spelling Quebeckers; in French Anglo-Québécois, Québécois Anglophone, or simply Anglo) refers to the English-speaking (anglophone) minority of the primarily French-speaking (francophone) province of Quebec, Canada. The English-speaking community in Quebec constitutes an official linguistic minority population under Canadian law.

Unlike many other minorities, English-speaking Quebecers are not an ethnic group, with large emigration to other provinces, an early and strong French language education program in English schools, intermarriage with francophones and waves of immigration renewing the face of the community every generation. This makes estimating the population difficult. According to the 2011 Canadian census, 661,535 (8.5% of population) in Quebec declare English as a mother tongue, 834,950 (10.7%) use mostly English as their home language, and 1,058,250 (13.5%) comprise the Official Language Minority, having English as their First Official language spoken.