By city
Where the French exams are actually being sat.
Nine Canadian cities, with what candidates in each one actually search for, which immigration system applies, and what the timezone does to a weekly live class. We do not list test centres, and the page for each city explains why.
Montréal
QCEvenly split · Quebec route
The largest French-exam market in Canada by search demand, and the one where candidates most often have to decide between two entirely different immigration systems before they book anything.
Eastern time
Vancouver
BCMostly TCF
Strongly TCF-weighted demand on the wrong side of the country for Eastern-time classes, which makes scheduling the practical question here rather than which exam to sit.
Pacific time
Toronto
ONEvenly split
The most evenly split city in the country: candidates here search for the TCF and the TEF in almost identical numbers, so the choice of exam is genuinely open.
Eastern time
Calgary
ABMostly TCF
Heavy demand for a city its size, concentrated on the TCF, and served by fewer sittings than the Eastern metros.
Mountain time
Ottawa
ONMostly TCF
The most lopsided city in the data: candidates search for the TCF roughly six times as often as the TEF, which is unusual and worth understanding before you follow the crowd.
Eastern time
Edmonton
ABEvenly split
The fastest-growing French-exam demand in the country over the last year, and split exactly evenly between the two exams.
Mountain time
Drummondville
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
A small city that draws a disproportionate amount of TCF Canada searching, which usually means seats here open when the Montréal ones are gone.
Eastern time
Longueuil
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
On the south shore opposite Montréal, and searched for by name often enough to suggest people are looking for a seat here specifically rather than anywhere in the region.
Eastern time
Laval
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
Close enough to Montréal that most candidates end up choosing between sittings in both, which makes the calendar, not the city, the thing that decides where you sit.
Eastern time
Winnipeg
MBEvenly split
A small but rising market next to one of the oldest francophone communities in western Canada.
Central time
Halifax
NSMostly TEF
Rising demand, an Atlantic timezone that is ahead of everywhere else in the country, and provincial routes that treat French as a genuine advantage.
Atlantic time
Sherbrooke
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
A university city in the Eastern Townships, where a good part of the demand comes from students already in Quebec converting a study permit into permanent residency.
Eastern time
Gatineau
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
Across the river from Ottawa, which makes it the one place where the federal and Quebec routes are a bridge apart: check which one your application is actually on before you book anything.
Eastern time
Moncton
NBMostly TEF
The only officially bilingual province in Canada, where French is not a points bonus so much as the working language of a large part of the region.
Atlantic time
Saguenay
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
Demand here is almost entirely TCF and almost entirely Quebec-route, in a region where the nearest alternative sitting is a long drive away, so a missed date costs more than a rebooking fee.
Eastern time
Victoria
BCMostly TCF
Island candidates carry a ferry or a flight on top of the exam fee, which makes sitting it once and sitting it ready a materially different calculation from the mainland.
Pacific time
Kelowna
BCMostly TEF
The interior is the one BC market where the demand is TEF rather than TCF, and three hours behind Eastern time, which rules out most live classes run from Montréal.
Pacific time
Trois-Rivières
QCMostly TCF · Quebec route
Between Montréal and Québec, and worth checking precisely because candidates default to the two big cities and leave seats here unbooked.
Eastern time
Bathurst
NBMostly TCF
Northern New Brunswick is Acadian and officially bilingual, so candidates here often speak French daily and are sitting the exam to evidence a level they already have rather than to reach one.
Atlantic time
This is not a test-centre directory
We do not publish a list of test centres. The exam operators run the official locators, those lists change, and a wrong address for a paid exam costs a candidate real money. Use the operator's own finder for the current centres near you, then come back and work out the preparation.
Plenty of sites do publish those lists, and some of them are out of date in ways you only discover after paying. The exam operators maintain the authoritative registers, they are free to search, and they are linked from every city page here.
What these pages do carry is the part the operators do not: which exam your city actually leans towards and why that is a habit rather than a rule, whether the federal or Quebec immigration system applies to you, and what your timezone does to a weekly live class you are expected to attend for eight weeks running.
We have no campus in any of these cities
Français Prep is online only, everywhere. These pages exist because the practical questions genuinely differ by city, not because we have a room in one. If what you want is a physical classroom, our alternatives pages say so plainly and point you at the people who do.
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