French America (French: Amérique française) is the French-speaking community of peoples and diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. Quebec is the center of the community, but it may also include the rest of Canada (notably Ontario, Manitoba, and New Brunswick), Saint Pierre et Miquelon, New England, the Mid-Western states, Louisiana, California, New York, Florida, Mexico (state), Mexico City, Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Veracruz in North America. Haiti, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; French Guiana and Argentina in South America. The Ordre des francophones d'Amériques is a decoration given in the name of the community to its members. It can also be described as the Francophonie of the Americas.