The Francophone population of Ontario 1871-1921 from census and marriage microdata

Kris Inwood, University of Guelph
Luiza Antonie, University of Guelph
Jeremy Foxcroft, University of Guelph
Chris Minns, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Fraser Summerfield, St. Francis Xavier University and RCEA
Tianning Zhu, London School of Economics

Previous work on the Francophone population of Ontario has highlighted regional differences in its size and importance relative to other groups and variation over time and space in the importance of continuing migration from Quebec (Ouellet 2012). This paper revisits Ouellet’s thoughtful survey with published census data using newly available individual-level census data that permit fine-grained generalizations. A systematic linking of Ontario’s marriage records to the census points, in an admittedly preliminary way, to the importance of phenomena inaccessible to Ouellet such as variations in the propensity of Francophones to marry non-Francophones and the circumstances in children of mixed unions are or are not identified by the census as speaking French. Fernand Ouellet, “Du Québec ver l’Ontario” and “Les Progrès de la Population Franco-Ontarienne”, pp 143-148 and 225-229 in Yves Frenette, Étienne Rivard and Marc St-Hilaire, eds., La francophonie nordaméricaine (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2012)

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 Presented in Session 195. Linking and Data Quality