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This page lists Canadian citizens or people of pre-Confederation colonies that formed to make or joined the country of Canada who are of partial ethnic or national French descent. Most have sub-categories listed here below.
Approximately 900,000 Quebec residents [1] [2] (French Canadian for the great majority) left for the United States between 1840 and 1930. They were pushed to emigrate by overpopulation in rural areas that could not sustain them under the seigneurial system of land tenure, but also because the expansion of this system was in effect blocked by the "Château Clique" that ruled Quebec under the ...
In the Great Lakes, many French Canadians also identify as Métis and trace their ancestry to the earliest voyageurs and settlers; many also have ancestry dating to the lumber era and often a mixture of the two groups. The main Franco-American regional identities are: French Canadians: French Canadians of the Great Lakes (including Muskrat French)
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor.; Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal.
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
English Canadians, expectedly, were displeased and took to calling these soldiers "zombies" who they stereotyped as French Canadians who were "sitting comfortably" while their countrymen died. On April 27, 1942, Mackenzie King held a national plebiscite to decide on the issue, having made campaign promises to avoid conscription (and, it is ...
According to sociolinguist Charles Boberg, while most Canadians reporting their ethnicity in the 2000 census as "Canadian" were "old stock" descendants of French or British immigrant ancestors, descendants of 20th century Welsh, American, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Irish or Scots ancestors were more likely to consider themselves as Canadian ...
Jean Lefebvre (1714–1766), French-born, Canadian merchant. [296] François Lévesque (1732–1787), French-born Canadian merchant, justice of the peace and politician, of the Lévesque family of weavers originally from Bolbec, Normandy. [297] Charles Mallet (1815–1902), banker. [298] Gabriel Manigault (1704–1781), American merchant. [299]