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- noun Plural form of
Canary Islander .
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French colonists who were expelled from Acadia in the 1700s became two-stepping Cajuns, Canary Islanders brought Spanish flavor to the mix, and the coffee-colored roux of the native-born Creoles combined both imperial French and enslaved African cultures.
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Coming Black Death: BP Destroys Both Nature and the Human Spirit 2010
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French colonists who were expelled from Acadia in the 1700s became two-stepping Cajuns, Canary Islanders brought Spanish flavor to the mix, and the coffee-colored roux of the native-born Creoles combined both imperial French and enslaved African cultures.
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Coming Black Death: BP Destroys Both Nature and the Human Spirit 2010
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The show is called Lost in the Atlantic, which might give you some sense of how things turned out for Görlitz and the crew of 40-foot Abora III (Abora is said to have been a powerful deity among Canary Islanders and Görlitz has used the name for two previous iterations of reed boats he piloted across the Mediterranean).
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SID: And the culture and they tell me that they have the same dialect, not as the Canary Islanders now, but the Canary Islanders of 1778.
Alive In Truth 2005
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And the Canary Islanders that are dancing, they go over and see our young people dancing their dances.
Alive In Truth 2005
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It was nothing but low-lying clouds, such as those the Canary Islanders had mistaken for _terra firma_.
Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne
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Mar_, commonly known as _Sábana la Mar_, founded by Canary Islanders in 1756.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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The sparsely scattered oceanic islands of the Atlantic, owing to excessive isolation, were all, except the near-lying Canaries, uninhabited at the time of their discovery; and the Canary Islanders showed great retardation as compared with their parent stock of northern Africa.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Its nucleus was a large immigration of Canary Islanders.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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And their eyes are very fine and not small, and they are not black at all, but of the color of the Canary Islanders.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891
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