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This is a list of notable people who are from Quebec, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This category lists French Canadians: citizens of Canada who are first language francophone or who, despite being anglophone, self-identify as French Canadian or as a member of the various sub-ethnic groups, listed here as subcategories. (Note: French Canadians do not necessarily have ethnic French origins or ancestry.)
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.
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)
Shooting the Rapids, 1879 by Frances Anne Hopkins (1838–1919). Voyageurs (French: [vwajaʒœʁ] ⓘ; lit. ' travellers ') were 18th- and 19th-century French and later French Canadians and others who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade.
Jean Lefebvre (1714–1766), French-born, Canadian merchant. [294] François Lévesque (1732–1787), French-born Canadian merchant, justice of the peace and politician, of the Lévesque family of weavers originally from Bolbec, Normandy. [295] Charles Mallet (1815–1902), banker. [296] Gabriel Manigault (1704–1781), American merchant. [297]
These writers may be Acadian, Franco-ontarian or from any other Canadian province. Some of these writers did move to Quebec at a later stage in their careers, and hence may also be listed at List of Quebec writers , although others did not.
French Canadians, Québécois, Breton, Basque, Mi'kmaq Newfoundlanders, Acadians, Cajuns, French Americans, Métis, French Franco-Newfoundlanders , also known as Franco-Terreneuvians (or just Terreneuvians ) in English or Franco-Terreneuviens in French, are francophone and/or French Canadian residents of the Canadian province of Newfoundland ...