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Anglification
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the political concept of absorbing the French Canadians into the English- speaking community, a view held by many Canadians of British origins in the 1830's and 40's and finding expression in the Durham Report of 1839 and the Union Act of 1841.
Quotations
1843
If the great object of the Union is carried out--the Anglification of the French, of who the Tories entertain such a holy horror--we cannot conceive of any readier mode of accomplishing it, than the one which will have the greater tendency to bring the two races the most into each other's society.
1866
After sojourning some time in the country, and consulting the British party-leaders, his opinions underwent a change, for he became convinced that under such an arrangement as that just detailed, gradual anglification would have been impossible to effect.
1946
The gate to "Anglification" was to be opened by the simple device of the union of the two Canadas: the powerful contagion of English example would then do the rest.