DCHP-2

Canadian French DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1

  The French-speaking people of Canada, especially those of Quebec.

  • 1785  The conquest . . . has been the means of accelerating the advancement of the Canadian French. . . .
  • 1840  The Canadian French, like their forefathers, profess the Roman Catholic religion. . . .
  • 1958  The population [of Caraquet, N.B.] is of mixed origin: Norman French, with an infusion of native Indian, Canadian French, Acadian, English and Jersey French.

• 2

  the kind of French spoken by French Canadians, especially those of Quebec, or by people descended from the French of Quebec.

  • 1816  Their language is a dialect of the Canadian French; and their general manners about half-way-house between the Indians and the white people.
  • 1948  His native tongue is Canadian-French; the English that he speaks is crisp, vivid, terse, exact; the English that he writes can be woolly.