DCHP-2
Johnny Canuck DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
a native or citizen of Canada.
See also: Canuck (meaning 3)
- 1910 "Thar ain't no Johnny Canuck kin arrest me."
- 1953 There were baseball, football & lacrosse games during other seasons, but in winter there was nothing but idleness for red-blooded, sports-loving Johnny Canucks.
1b
a Canadian soldier.
- 1957 John comes into many nicknames, here are a few of them. John Bull . . . Johnny Canuck, a Canadian soldier, and Johnny Raw, a new recruit.
2
a personification of Canada.
- 1909 Failing any or all of these [desired trade goods], it was in vain that the Factor displayed before them the wares of John Bull, Uncle Sam, or Johnny Canuck, or any seductive lure made in Germany.
- 1959 Millions of Asians, Africans and Europeans who'll never see a travelling hockey team or a cartoon of Johnny Canuck, have only one image: the men and women of our foreign service.
- 1964 That's the spirit of USA which Johnny Canuck will never catch up with.
- 1967 As far as I know, Johnny made his first appearance as a cartoon character in an 1869 copy of Grinchuckle (page 12), a new Montreal journal that billed itself as "a magazine of mirth and opinion." The cartoonist had already translated Johnny into a Western hat and vaguely British field uniform and used him as a symbol for young Canadians regardless of language.
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- 1910 "Thar ain't no Johnny Canuck kin arrest me."
