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chantecler chanticler [< Cdn F] 
n. a breed of white poultry developed by the Trappist monks at Oka, Quebec.
- 1936 Here I was met by the famous monk Brother Wilfred, the originator of the first all-Canadian chicken "The Chantecler." It took from 1908 to 1918 of continuous experimenting to produce this superlative fowl. The breeds crossed to result in the Chantecler were the Cornish, White Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte and White Plymouth Rock.
- 1947 They were very special chicks, Chanticler chicks, a distinctively Canadian breed of poultry. . . .
- 1936 Here I was met by the famous monk Brother Wilfred, the originator of the first all-Canadian chicken "The Chantecler." It took from 1908 to 1918 of continuous experimenting to produce this superlative fowl. The breeds crossed to result in the Chantecler were the Cornish, White Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte and White Plymouth Rock.