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Anglification Hist. 
n. the political concept of absorbing the French Canadians into the English- speaking community, a view held by many Canadians of British origins in the 1830's and 40's and finding expression in the Durham Report of 1839 and the Union Act of 1841.
- 1843 If the great object of the Union is carried out--the Anglification of the French, of who the Tories entertain such a holy horror--we cannot conceive of any readier mode of accomplishing it, than the one which will have the greater tendency to bring the two races the most into each other's society.
- 1866 After sojourning some time in the country, and consulting the British party-leaders, his opinions underwent a change, for he became convinced that under such an arrangement as that just detailed, gradual anglification would have been impossible to effect.
- 1946 The gate to "Anglification" was to be opened by the simple device of the union of the two Canadas: the powerful contagion of English example would then do the rest.
- 1843 If the great object of the Union is carried out--the Anglification of the French, of who the Tories entertain such a holy horror--we cannot conceive of any readier mode of accomplishing it, than the one which will have the greater tendency to bring the two races the most into each other's society.