French Ontario has more than a half million residents with French as a mother tongue, generally living in three regions: the east, the northeast, and the central southwest. The greatest proportion of Franco-Ontarians live in the east, while a relatively equal share live in the other two regions. ###>Viennent ensuite l'Ontario et le Nouveau-Brunswick avec respectivement 7,8 % et 3,5 % des francophones du Canada.