A thousand or so. It's not a long-established French community, it's more recent. They just started an annual festival earlier this year and it was very successful.
Their schools are a few blocks apart just outside of our north side's downtown core, and they have a community centre at the other end of that downtown but they're going to move it closer to the schools. Many times when I have walked through the neighbourhood these days, I hear more people speaking French than English. It's a nice little area. My high school was located just on the edge of it, I could see their high school from mine when it was being built 8 years ago. They live there because of the elementary school, not the other way around. It was put there in the 1970s I think. They didn't get their own high school until 2004, it has maybe 100 students at a time. Very nice, modern building.
It's one of the few institutional facilities that factored future growth into its construction. Typically, we build things as small as possible and intend to add onto them. Almost everything built by the government here, from hospitals to offices, is too small from day one.
The only French station here is the CBON repeater from Sudbury so the occasional French-language or bilingual ad is played on regular radio, especially during September and February school registration periods.
There are also quite a few bilingual people here, we were chosen by OLS (now called HGS) for a call centre site because of it. 16 bucks an hour to talk on a phone if you know French well enough. I don't.