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French Canada

• 1 that part of Canada which was formerly known as New France; the province of Quebec.

  • 1844  We thus see proof abundant, that in twelve Counties in French Canada, there is not merely a division, but a considerable division.
  • 1966  A recent survey of sex-attitudes in French Canada indicated that the male presence in the home is practically nil.

• 2 the people of Quebec collectively.

  • 1888  We said, a couple of weeks ago, that French Canada, without distinction of party, was opposed to the scheme of Imperial Federation.
  • 1916  Quebec .. . must have a leader of French Canada outside the old parties in the person of Henri Bourassa.
  • 1964  Pearson . . . gave French Canada perhaps the strongest voice it has ever had in a Federal Cabinet

• 3 French-speaking Canadians collectively.

  • 1895  French Canada and the Separate schools forsooth, when will those frothy writers and talkers give us a rest on this seemingly inexhaustable subject and confine themselves to something practical, something of immediate interest?
  • 1961  "No one seriously imagines," Premier Jean Lesage assured the Quebec legislature a fortnight ago, "that French Canada ends at the territorial limits of Quebec province." In fact, Lesage does not even concede that French Canada ends at the territorial limits of Canada.
  • 1964  There are another 1,750,000 viewers in French Canada.
  • 1966  "French Canada extends from the Maritimes to British Columbia. But you people insist on keeping us in the reserve of Quebec. . . ."