• The West Island is home to Quebec’s largest concentration of native English-speakers, most of whom are bilingual;
• Historically, there was a linguistic division of the island of Montreal into French and English ‘halves’, with Francophones typically inhabiting the eastern portion of the island and Anglophones typically inhabiting the western half. The West Island’s population is approximately 234,000 and although the overwhelming majority of its residents are today bilingual if not multi-lingual (given the cosmopolitan nature of this vast suburban area), anglophones still make up a plurality of the West Island’s population.