French Canadian

  • distribution in

    • Canada

      TITLE: Canada: The Quebec question
      SECTION: The Quebec question
      ...autonomy dominated Canadian politics for the last decades of the 20th century. Through various historical constitutional guarantees, Quebec, which is the sole Canadian province where citizens of French origin are in the majority, has developed a distinctive culture that differs in many respects from that of the rest of Canada—and, indeed, from the rest of North America. Although there...
    • Maine

      TITLE: Maine (state, United States): Population composition
      SECTION: Population composition
      ...of them settled in the St. John valley—which now forms the northern border of Maine—while others made the long trip to Louisiana (where their descendants are called Cajuns). The later French Canadian migration from Quebec province began with the growth of the lumber and textile industries following the American Civil War. French is the primary language in much of the St. John...
    • New Hampshire

      TITLE: New Hampshire (state, United States): Population composition
      SECTION: Population composition
    • Vermont

      TITLE: Vermont: Population composition
      SECTION: Population composition
  • effect on Canadian history

    TITLE: Canada: The Quebec Act
    SECTION: The Quebec Act
    ...officers who administered the colony. Among the latter was General James Murray, who was appointed the colony’s first governor in 1763. Murray sympathized with the condition and difficulties of the French and ignored the demands of the recently arrived Protestants for an assembly, with the result that an agitation by the Protestants led to his recall. He was replaced in 1766 by General Guy...
    TITLE: Quebec (province, Canada): Early history to 1860
    SECTION: Early history to 1860
    TITLE: Canada: The first Riel rebellion
    SECTION: The first Riel rebellion
    TITLE: Canada: Quebec separatism
    SECTION: Quebec separatism
  • Quebecers or Québécois debate

    TITLE: Quebecers or Québécois?
    ...of a nation is defined, even the terms used to refer to some of the key parties are contentious. The term “nation” is used both in its sociological and political senses. For traditional French Canadian nationalists the nation is understood as a sociological community with a common language, culture, and shared history. The French Canadian nation includes all Francophones and...
  • role of Papineau

    TITLE: Louis-Joseph Papineau