This is a list of francophone communities in Manitoba, i.e., municipalities and neighbourhoods with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The provincial average of Manitobans whose mother tongue is French is 2.8%, with a total of 36,740 people in Manitoba who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. While several communities in these have sizeable French minorities, no municipalities have francophone majorities.
There are several Franco-Manitoban communities throughout Manitoba, although the majority are based in either the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region or the Eastman Region.
The centre of the Franco-Manitoban community is the Saint Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, which also ranks as the largest francophone community in Western Canada.[1]
Municipality | Type | County, district, or regional municipality | Total population (French and non-French speaking)[2] | Percentage of population whose mother tongue is French | |
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Rural municipality | 3,854 | 8% | |||
Rural municipality | 3,344 | 6% | |||
Rural municipality | 4,568 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 3,918 | 27% | |||
Rural municipality | 2,437 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 2,517 | 16% | |||
Île-des-Chênes | Rural municipality | Eastman | 1,606 | 13% | |
Rural municipality | 6,725 | 11% | |||
Rural municipality | 3,563 | 5% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,186 | 3% | |||
Rural municipality | 2,904 | 28% | |||
Rural municipality | 8,120 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,278 | 29% | |||
Rural municipality | 3,049 | 3% | |||
Town | 1,975 | 5% | |||
Town | 5,947 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,770 | 13% | |||
Local government district | 1,558 | 3% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,843 | 8% | |||
Town | 1,239 | 6% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,344 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 7,469 | 18% | |||
Saint Boniface[3] | Neighbourhood (provincial riding) | Winnipeg | 22,345 | 24.4% | |
Rural municipality | 1,449 | 4% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,542 | 16% | |||
Village | 1,305 | 39% | |||
Rural municipality | 5,584 | 14% | |||
Town | 2,891 | 21% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,591 | 19% | |||
Rural municipality | 11,916 | 12% | |||
Rural municipality | 1,188 | 5% |
A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. Small francophone-minority municipalities include: Argyle (4%), Buffalo Point (7%), Ellice-Archie (15%) and Victoria Beach (4%).