Showing posts with label British Columbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Columbia. Show all posts

10/01/2008

Vancouver, Canada: More Speakers of Chinese than of French

In the Vancouver Sun, last Monday:

Vancouver has strong ties to other Pacific Rim communities, with statistics indicating a higher proportion of residents speak Mandarin or Cantonese fluently than speak French.
More than 125,000 Metro Vancouver residents said Cantonese is their native tongue, according to the 2006 census, and roughly 69,000 said it's Mandarin.
Only 24,130 residents said French is their first language.