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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a Canadian.
See: British North American.
Quotations
1837
Canadians, or British Americans--J.B. Robinson, Markland, P. Robinson, C. Jones.
1866
Most people, perhaps, are not aware that any great number of British Americans have gained historical distinction; but this is because they do not know how little it takes to give a man a "place in history," or to constitute him a British American.