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- noun Plural form of
French Canadian .
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Examples
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As a result, the English colonials did not have fond feelings towards the French Canadians, and the French Canadians were well aware it that.
It’s Patriots’ Day 2010
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And in 1837, both the French Canadians and various
The Great Shame & the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World 2000
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Governor Murray conducted his government on principles of justice and forbearance towards the French Canadians, and refused to listen to the unwise and arbitrary counsel of the four or five hundred "old subjects," who wished to rule the province.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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French-speaking inhabitants of Canada, and his memory is held as dear among the French Canadians as in his native province of Ontario.
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When the Indians harassed the English settlers in Nova Scotia, the government of that province recalled the raids of the Abenakis and French Canadians, and believed with some reason there was to be the same condition of things in the peninsula.
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Away from the St. Lawrence, however, and the path of the tourists, the French Canadians remain, relatively speaking, untouched by English customs.
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This guard was, no doubt, composed of Germans; one wonders to what extent they fraternized with the French Canadians.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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If Great Britain had followed the same method in dealing with the French Canadians, instead of loyal subjects she would have made rebels of them all.
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Onondaga river falls into Lake Ontario, had been amongst the first causes of serious enmity between the French Canadians and their New
The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach
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Micmacs, Hurons, and Iroquois -- representatives of the old Indian tribes of Canada -- French Canadians, men, women, and children, from the valleys of the Ottawa, and the St. Maurice, and all parts of Quebec, as well as tourists from the United St.tes.
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