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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
The French-speaking people of Canada, especially those of Quebec.
Quotations
1785
The conquest . . . has been the means of accelerating the advancement of the Canadian French. . . .
1840
The Canadian French, like their forefathers, profess the Roman Catholic religion. . . .
1958
The population [of Caraquet, N.B.] is of mixed origin: Norman French, with an infusion of native Indian, Canadian French, Acadian, English and Jersey French.
2
the kind of French spoken by French Canadians, especially those of Quebec, or by people descended from the French of Quebec.
Quotations
1816
Their language is a dialect of the Canadian French; and their general manners about half-way-house between the Indians and the white people.
1948
His native tongue is Canadian-French; the English that he speaks is crisp, vivid, terse, exact; the English that he writes can be woolly.