List of francophone communities in British Columbia

This is a list of francophone communities in British Columbia. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of British Columbia are listed.

The provincial average of British Columbians whose mother tongue is French is 1.2%, with a total of 57,420 people in British Columbia who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. While several communities in these have sizeable French minorities, no municipalities have francophone majorities.

The majority of Franco-Columbians reside in communities within the southwest coast of British Columbia (including the Lower Mainland). The rest of Franco-Columbians resided in Vancouver Island and the central coast of British Columbia or in the Okanagan-Thompson region.

Municipality Type County, district, or regional municipality Total population[1] Percentage of population whose mother tongue is French[1]
Colwood City Capital 18,961 2%
Comox Town Comox Valley 14,028 3%
Courtenay City Comox Valley 28,420 2%
Cumberland Village Comox Valley 4,447 2%
Esquimalt District municipality Capital 17,533 3%
Fernie City East Kootenay 6,320 3%
Golden Town Columbia Shuswap 3,986 4%
Invermere District municipality East Kootenay 3,917 3%
Kaslo Village Central Kootenay 1,049 3%
Keremeos Village Okanagan-Similkameen 1,608 2%
Kitimat District municipality Kitimat-Stikine 8,236 2%
Lions Bay Village Greater Vancouver 1,390 2%
Mackenzie District municipality Fraser-Fort George 3,281 2%
Nelson City Central Kootenay 11,106 3%
Osoyoos Town Okanagan-Similkameen 5,556 3%
Pemberton Village Squamish-Lillooet 3,407 5%
Powell River City qathet 13,943 2%
Radium Hot Springs Village East Kootenay 1,339 3%
Revelstoke City Columbia Shuswap 8,275 5%
Rossland City Kootenay Boundary 4,140 4%
Squamish District municipality Squamish-Lillooet 23,819 3%
Tofino District municipality Alberni-Clayoquot 2,516 4%
Ucluelet District municipality Alberni-Clayoquot 2,066 3%
Whistler Resort municipality Squamish-Lillooet 13,982 4%

A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. Small francophone-minority municipalities include: Becher Bay (2%), Canal Flats (8%), Cayoosh Creek (8%), Chopaka (6%), Daajing Giids (2%), Esowista (6%), Greenwood (2%), Hazelton (2%), Lytton (2%), Matsqui (2%), Port Alice (2%), Priest's Valley (4%), Slocan (5%), Stewart (3%), Switsemalph (2%), T'Sou-ke (2%) and Tahsis (6%).

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  1. ^ a b "2021 Census Profile". 29 March 2023.