DCHP-3

Canadianism

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

support for or devotion to the concept of Canada as a separate and distinct nation.

Quotations

1875
In other words, the feeling of Canadianism is not yet sufficiently strong to override all conflicting local feelings and interests.
1946
These deep realities will merge into a genuine Canadianism only as Canada itself becomes a political community, a nation with a life and a soul of its own.
1963
Within our sight is the one hundredth year of Confederation, an occasion that will either be marred by a deepening disunity or marked by a resurgence of a strong and vital Canadianism.
1bn.

the nature of Canadian identity or nationhood; the fact of Canada's existence as a distinct and separate nation.

Quotations

1911
Some Canadian club will some day claim the honor of having been the first to advocate the higher Canadianism.
1964
. . . Mr. Pearson . . . brought his emotions to bear on the question of national unity and the meaning of Canadianism as he saw it.
2n.

any linguistic feature, as of pronunciation, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, orthography, that is characteristic of Canadian English.

Quotations

1957
By all means let us have a list of Canadianisms and jargon, but do not let us honor it by the title of "Dictionary."
1962
Canadians have made do with imported French-English dictionaries, even though they take no account of such Canadianisms as Socreds and separate schools, the mounties and the muskellunge, or maple taffy in the snow.
3n.

any instance of behavior that is regarded as Canadian.

Quotations

1963
"How good and kind they all had been, chuckling at my Canadianisms and my provincial awkwardness. . . ."