Canadian Frenchn.adj.

1755 J. Shebbeare Let. to People of Eng. 42 The map, which is always taken by the Canadian French from Quebec to Fort Lequesne.

1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay 195 A nation of Indians is marked down, called the Assinneboils; and that is the name by which the Canadian-French, still continue to call them.

1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 804 The pitch pine, P. resinosa is generally known in its native country by the name of Norway pine; sometimes, particularly among the Canadian French, red pine.

1882 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 147 Since then over 100,000 Canadian French have come into New England.

1931 H. A. L. Fisher in J. C. Squires If it had happened Otherwise 123 The general had set out on his errand, disguised as a Jesuit Father, and charged with letters and proclamations to the Canadian French.

1975 Honolulu Star-Bull. 16 May e3 As you know, the origin of Canuck has never been positively established... One guess is..that it is from Connaught, at first used by the Canadian French for the Irish among them.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. xiii. 140 The publicans..who followed them to the water's edge with many a hug, a kiss on each cheek, and a maudlin benediction in Canadian French.

1846 Littell's Living Age Sept. 576/1 They speak Canadian French more or less.

1950 French Rev. 23 391 No examples in the Canadian French were found for the subjunctive after interrogative verbs of declaring and knowing.

1974 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 19 147 It is clear that not every instance of the operation of vowel deletion in Canadian French results in a recoverable vowel.

1998 Canad. Geographic Mar. 29/1 This term for dried buffalo dung used as a fuel was borrowed from the Canadian French of fur trappers.

1835 A. Reed & J. Matheson Visit to Amer. Churches II. 307 The mass of the people are Canadian French.

1849 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 5 July There are said to be eight hundred inhabitants at the present, with a settlement of Canadian French farmers, numbering perhaps two hundred souls.

1880 N. Amer. Rev. June 552 Thus in a Canadian-French, an Irish, or German population of young people, we find relatively a far greater number of marriages than among the same class of native New-Englanders.

1951 T. V. Kalijarvi in A. M. Rose Race Prejudice & Discrim. ix. 88 The greatest force operating for group cohesion is the Canadian French tongue.

1997 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 5 There are rumours the Canadian-French singer will call it quits after this album to start a family.