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Does it trouble you that newly elected Liberal leader Stephane Dion has Canadian-French dual citizenship?
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The Canadian-French were recently described in a grave State paper as a
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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Geddes, James, Jr.: Canadian-French, 18901900, Kritscher Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Romanischen Philologie, bd. v., p. 214; bd. vi, p. 408; bd. viii, p. 217.
Bibliography 10. Non-English Languages in America. b. French Henry Louis 1921
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She _was_ French, then -- Canadian-French, I had no doubt.
Jacqueline of Golden River H. M. Egbert 1919
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She is Canadian-French and the only woman on the island who can cook any other way than frying.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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Canadian-French, clannish in spite of their long residence in
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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History records few struggles wherein the strength of a combatant was more utterly spent, with more entire devotion, than was the case with these Canadian-French provinces.
Benjamin Franklin 1888
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They were of exactly the same stock, with the sole exception that among and under, but entirely distinct from, the Canadian-English, fought the descendants of the conquered Canadian-French; and even these had been trained by Englishmen, were led by English captains, fought on ships built by English gold, and with English weapons and discipline.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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English weavers and spinners, with their hearty-looking wives and rosy children; then came the flock of Irish families, poorer and simpler than the others but learning the work sooner, and gayer-hearted; now the Canadian-French contingent furnished all the new help, and stood in long rows before the noisy looms and chattered in their odd, excited fashion.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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He shouted his words in the Canadian-French _patois_, opening a big knife in a threatening manner.
A Young Hero George Manville Fenn 1870
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