Editing Chatham-Kent (section)

===Language===
Although most of the population of Chatham-Kent is English-speaking, a few of its communities and Catholic parishes were settled by francophone (French-speaking) farmers in the mid-nineteenth century. These include Pain Court, Tilbury and Grande Pointe, where French is still spoken by a significant percentage of the population. These communities are designated French language service areas under Ontario's ''[[French Language Services Act (Ontario)|French Language Services Act]]''.

Approximately 8,500 residents of Chatham-Kent have French as a mother tongue and 1,500 have French as their home language. [[Essex County, Ontario|Essex County]] also has a relatively large francophone population, especially in the municipality of [[Lakeshore, Ontario|Lakeshore]]. Together, Chatham–Kent and Essex Counties make up one of the concentrations of [[Franco-Ontarian]]s in the province of Ontario.

Both elementary and secondary francophone schools exist across the municipality. A French socio-cultural organization, ''La Girouette'', which is based in Chatham, promotes French-Canadian culture and language in the area.

Knowledge of official language statistics:<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CD&Code1=3536&Geo2=PR&Code2=35&Data=Count&SearchText=Chatham-Kent&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=3536|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828003846/http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CD&Code1=3536&Geo2=PR&Code2=35&Data=Count&SearchText=Chatham-Kent&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=3536|url-status=unfit|title=Statistics Canada: 2006 Community Profiles|first=Statistics Canada|last=Government of Canada|date=March 13, 2007|archivedate=August 28, 2016}}</ref>
*English only: 92.2%
*French only: <0.1%
*English and French: 7.2%
*Neither English nor French: 0.5%