DCHP-3

anti-Canadian ((adj.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj. — Hist.

opposed or prejudicial to the interests of the Canadian French.

Quotations

1808
The comparison I have made between the Canadians and an ignorant headstrong youth, will no doubt be deemed by them highly Anti-Canadian, yet I think it will hold good in every point.
1850
Several officers of the militia . . . publicly dissuaded their militiamen from attending muster, haranguing them . . . against the existing administration, as inimical to the rights and interests of the "peuple canadien!" and as essentially anti-Canadian.
2adj. — [Edit specific label]

opposed or prejudicial to the interests of Canada and Canadians.

Quotations

1882
This is sheer ignorance, and if it were not ignorance, it would be prejudicial to the Dominion, Anti-Canadian, un-British, disloyal, for anything that threatens the integrity of the Confederation, threatens our promising commonwealth.