Nearly 900,000 English, Foreign-Language Quebecers Have Left Province Since 1966: StatCan

StatCan’s report says the migration number could have been higher but the English-speaking population in Quebec was relatively small to begin with.

A person holds a Quebec flag on St-Jean-Baptiste Day in Montreal, on June 24, 2023. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Nearly 900,000 English and other non-French-speaking Quebecers have left the province since 1966, according to a Statistics Canada report.

The report’s authors said the migration could have been more substantial, but there was a relatively low number of English-speaking people in Quebec to begin with.