Loonies and Toonies: A Canadian Number Book

Loonies and Toonies: A Canadian Number Book — page 5
In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies England and France waged a bitter rivalry for control and resources of a vast new land which was to become Canada Because of the crucial role of both founding nations Canada has two official languages English and French we use 2 languages Marc says vite One girl's But in English Most Francophones live in the province of Quebec but there are pockets of French speaking people all over the country Twenty three of every 100 Canadians list French as their mother tongue That's why in Canada writing on everything from cereal boxes to hundred dollar bills is in French and English Our First Nations people retain 50 lan guages of their own including Algonquin Inuktitut and Athapascan tWO