| • | .]]Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County at the junction of the Saint John and Madawaska Rivers in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada only a few kilometres from the border with Quebec and on the border with the United States, opposite the town of Madawaska, Maine. Out of the eight cities in New Brunswick, Edmundston is the most francophone, with 98% of the city's population speaking French as a first language.
Edmundston is second to only Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, as the largest French speaking city in North America outside the province of Quebec. If the population of the adjacent town of Madawaska, Maine, was included, it would be the largest. There are higher concentrations of francophones in other Canadian cities such as Ottawa (122,665), Sudbury (45,420), Toronto (34,900), Winnipeg (26,855), Moncton (20,425) and Timmins (17,390), but French speakers there are in the minority.
Source: [wikipedia: edmundston, new brunswick]
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