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Canadianist
< Canadian + -ist
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
1n. — Education
a researcher specializing in Canadian studies.
Type: 1. Origin — This term refers to an individual with a particular interest in the academic study of issues pertaining to Canada.
See also COD-2, s.v. "Canadianist".
See also COD-2, s.v. "Canadianist".
Quotations
1982
The deal was part of a department program providing grants for U.S. academics to become "Canadianists". Since 1976, 160 people have received as much as $7,500 each to spend three to six months in Canada developing study courses.
1986
Turrone is something of a specialist in things Canadian, or as Americans like to call it, a Canadianist.
1991
A Canadianist is a foreign academic who specializes in the study of Canada. There are more of them than you might think -- 4,500 around the world.
2003
Right. What's a Canadianist?
"This is a unique organization," said Catherine Bastedo-Boileau, [...].
"This is the only country to have an international council for the study of Canada."
2adj. — Politics
pertaining to Canadian nationalisism
Type: 1. Origin — The derivational suffix -ist in this case refers to a pro-Canada stance.
Quotations
1987
It is necessary to take Wieland's treatment of American nationalism into account when examining her highly Canadianist works of the early 1970s.
1999
Ricard's book is a reclamation of Roy for Quebec, where for many years she was held in esteem by dint of achievement and presence, but where she belonged uneasily as a result of her failure to embrace separatism. Careful to note his own disagreement with Roy's Canadianist leanings, Ricard devotes substantial argument in this book to rendering Roy's politics palatable to independantistes , an essential aspect of his project being to advocate a rightful high place for Roy in the literary history of Quebec.
References
- COD-2