They quickly spread to a number of New England cities, serving the French-speaking immigrants.
This was aided by industrialization, which led to an influx of French-speaking immigrants.
He introduced measures to encourage settlement and encouraged French-speaking immigrants to settle in the province.
It is popular among English and French-speaking immigrants.
In 1999, 12,600 French-speaking immigrants were admitted.
Its development was at least partly due to the influence of French-speaking immigrants.
Administratively if not formally, Quebec favours French-speaking immigrants.
But the province's immigration officials abroad seek to encourage French-speaking immigrants to chose Montreal over Toronto or Vancouver.
Quebec has pressed hard to attract French-speaking immigrants to promote the French language and culture, but the craving for independence has ebbed in recent years.
The trend of French-speaking Haitian immigrants to Canada was to settle in Quebec-95% of them.