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This report presents a portrait of the health of francophone seniors (65 years and over) in Ontario, as compared with the rest of the provincial population. The report is based on data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), a cross-sectional multi-stage survey that collects information related to health status, health care utilization and health determinants for the Canadian population. Eight CCHS cycles, undertaken between 2001 and 2009, and covering responses from 130,000 respondents were used to complete this report. A combination of consecutive cycles was used to increase the effective sample size and to describe more thoroughly the health of the aging francophone population in the three main regions of Ontario: Central/South-West, East/South-East, and North.