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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Franco-Ontarians settling Ontario from Quebec?
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Migration from what is now Quebec (over time - the same territory with no borders whatsoever, then Canada East, then Lower Canada, then Quebec) formed and still forms the basis of the Franco-Ontarian population, but I've never been able to find figures on how many people actually moved.
The migration of French Canadians out of Quebec to the NE US from about 1850 to 1950 has been estimated at as much as 1 million people.
This specific migration is estimated to have spawned about 8-10 million (Franco-)American descendants today.
At the moment there are about 500,000 Franco-Ontarians. Not all but the vast majority of them are descended from people who once lived in what is today Quebec*.
About as many Ontarians or maybe slightly more are descendants of French Canadians from Quebec but are no longer francophones.
So I am positive the francophone migration from Quebec to Ontario, which has been ongoing (at varying clips) for several centuries, was nonetheless way less than the migration to the NE US.
*Overall, about 18-20 million descendants of New France are estimated to be living in Canada and the U.S. today. They're roughly equally divided between the two countries. About 7 million of them can still be called "francophones", and almost all of those are in Canada.