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	French-Canadian Genealogical Research in Houghton County, Michigan
		French Canadians and their children began to migrate from Houghton County to seek better jobs in the industrial areas of Michigan's lower peninsula and in neighboring states.
		French Canadians in New England also lived in heterogeneous communities, but these cousins were surrounded by constant reminders that they had settled in the homeland of the Puritan Yankees.
		Some adventurous French Canadians deserted the dying fur trade and moved into the Copper Country in the mid-1840's, as soon as the copper range was opened.
	habitant.org /houghton/fcgenealogy.htm (13763 words)

	French-Canadian Genealogical Research in Houghton County, Michigan
		French Canadians and their children began to migrate from Houghton County to seek better jobs in the industrial areas of Michigan's lower peninsula and in neighboring states.
		French Canadians in New England also lived in heterogeneous communities, but these cousins were surrounded by constant reminders that they had settled in the homeland of the Puritan Yankees.
		Although the Jesuits had a mission at Keweenaw Bay in the seventeenth century, and the French made several efforts to mine copper during their rule, the Copper Country had not been an area of settlement for colonial French Canadians as was the Detroit River region.
	www.habitant.org /houghton/fcgenealogy.htm (13759 words)

	Quebec South
		Even more than other groups, French Canadians came to occupy a space between two nations: keeping up ties with both, reluctant to abandon their birth place, and with one of the lowest naturalization rates of any immigrant group.
		French-Canadians in the U.S. "The Americans may say with truth," Canadian social critic Gordon Smith observed a century ago, "that if they do not annex Canada they are annexing the Canadians." In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, English- and French-speaking Canadians went south to the United States in unprecedented numbers.
		Other immigrants would arrive to work at the mills, but in cities like Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts, Lewiston, Maine, and Manchester, New Hampshire, French Canadians would be dominant (see map).
	www.duke.edu /~mahealey/quebec_south.htm (4722 words)

	Canadian dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In French, the currency is also called le dollar; Canadian French slang terms include piastre or piasse (equivalent to "buck," but the original word used in eighteenth-century French to translate "dollar") and huard (equivalent to "loonie"), since huard is French for "loon", the animal appearing on the coin.
		Since about 85 per cent of Canada's external trade is with the United States, Canadians are mainly interested in the value of their currency against the United States dollar (USD).
		The standard set of faces has Canadian symbols (primarily wildlife) on the reverse, and an effigy of Elizabeth II on the obverse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_dollar (1214 words)

	French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840-1930 - Readings - Quebec History
		In fact, it would be normal to consider that French Canadians, who only find their language and religion dominant in a part of the continent, would be the least likely to engage in the migration process.
		Franco-Ontarians frequently moved to Michigan and Illinois while Franco-Manitobans and other Western French Canadians often opted for Minnesota and Wisconsin.
		A useful beginning for examining French Canadians’ views of the United States, particularly through its literature is Jacques COTNAM, "Americans Viewed Through French Canadian Eyes" in Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/readings/leaving.htm (7369 words)

	!!!!!!!CANADA!!!!!!!!!!
		He was a French explorer and when he arrived in Canada he named it New France.
		Famous People of Canada Famous Canadians Famous Canadians Famous Canadians Famous Canadians Famous People of Canada
		They are customs officials, judges, mailmen for out of reach settlements, although their many duty remains the same, to keep law and order.
	www.angelfire.com /ks/sideburnz/canada.html (435 words)

	French Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the exception of the Acadians who have a distinct shared history, most French Canadians find their ancestry among agriculturalists from France who colonized the area that is now Quebec during Canada's colonial period starting in the 17th century.
		It took the 1774 Quebec Act for them to regain the French civil law system, and in 1791 French Canadians in Lower Canada were introduced to the British parliamentary system when an elected Legislative Assembly was created.
		The Acadians of New Brunswick and Métis are not classified as French Canadians, but as distinct francophone peoples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French-Canadian (926 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Military History - French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War
		There existed among French Canadians a tradition of suspicion and even hostility towards the British Empire, and, while sympathetic to France, Britain's ally, few French Canadians were willing to risk their lives in its defence either.
		Yet, by the Armistice in 1918, nearly half of all Canadians who served during the war had been born in the British Isles.
		A mere 13 of 258 infantry battalions formed during the course of the war were raised in French Canada, and all struggled to attract and retain recruits.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/disp/dis001_e.html (2760 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fall River
		Among the latter are Americans, Irish, French-Canadians, Portuguese, Poles, and Italians, with some few Greeks and Syrians.
		Of the secular clergy 57 are English-speaking, 30 French-speaking, 15 Portuguese, 5 Poles, and 1 Italian.
		The heavy immigration in years past of the Irish and French-Canadian people has caused them to far outnumber the Catholics of other nationalities; but this immigration is now at a standstill, while that of Portuguese and Poles is steadily on the increase.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05771a.htm (909 words)

	Search: french-canadians - FOX News
		Approximately 2.8 million French Americans are descended from French Canadians who migrated to the United States.
		There is no reason to believe that the French Canadians outside of Quebec will be involved in militant...
		French-Canadians insist that their language is French, and this...
	search.foxnews.com /info.foxnws/redirs_all.htm?pgtarg=wbsdogpile&qcat=web&qkw=french-canadians (664 words)

	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Overall about 22% of Canadians speak French as a first language and 18% are bilingual.
		About 12% of the world's francophones are Canadian, and French is one of Canada's two official languages, with English; various provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms deal with the right of Canadians to access services in English and French all across Canada.
		The earliest extant text in French is the Oaths of Strasbourg from 842; Old French became a literary language with the chansons de geste that told tales of the paladins of Charlemagne and the heroes of the Crusades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_language (3830 words)

	★ Montreal => Canadians OR Canedians OR Canadiens
		Canadians OR Canedians OR Canadiens" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:12 px;text-decoration: underline;color: #000000;">
		Is that in French or Canadian or it is a mix of French and Canadian?
		But the name is Montreal Canadiens, which is the french spelling.
	www.canada-city.ca /canada-hockey/posting.php?messageid=20 (88 words)

	French Canadian - Open Encyclopedia
		It took the 1774 Quebec Act for them to regain the French civil law system, and in 1791 French Canadians in Lower Canada were introduced to the British parliamentarism system when an elected Legislative Assembly was created.
		This is, in fact, offensive to many Canadians of French descent.
		The Acadians and Métis are not classified as French Canadians, but as distinct francophone peoples.
	open-encyclopedia.com /French-Canadian (721 words)

	Genealogy - Acadian and French Canadian
		French-Canadians, in genealogy, generally refers to descendants of the French who settled the Québec area, beginning in the early 17th century.
		Outside of genealogy, I guess any Canadian with a French name or who speaks French would be considered a French-Canadian.
		There are French-speaking Canadians all over Canada, and there are descendants of French-Canadians all over the world.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/lwjones (1038 words)

	Nationalism
		Canadian historian George Woodcock notes it in this manner, "Canadians make up for their physical weakness by assuming an air of moral superiority towards the Americans, not unlike that which Scots assumed towards the English".
		Canadians can retain all the positive aspects of the Canadian identities that exist across the land, and move beyond the rather negative ones that have been constructed to contrast themselves from USAmericans.
		Canadians are acutely aware that when they enter the United States, that while they can pretend to be USAmericans, they do not have all the rights of US citizens, including the right to live, work and travel in the United States without restriction.
	www.unitednorthamerica.org /antination.htm (1038 words)

	Canadian French Language
		Although intellectuals turn toward France for cultural inspiration (some university-educated French Canadians may not even know English), the pronunciation and usage of standard French is sometimes derided by French Canadians; this may be because their English compatriots are taught Parisian at school.
		Even today, however, French is not as socially prestigious as English; the activities of the separatist movement are evidence of the feeling of grievance that many French Canadians still have.
		French is mother tongue for more than 6,000,000 in Canada (24 percent of the total population according to 1986 census).
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/French-Canadian/Canadian.html (373 words)

	Quebecois
		The Québécois are the most numerous group of French-Canadians, though communities of French-Canadians can be found across the country, especially in Manitoba, Ontario, and the Maritimes ; French-speaking cultural groups elsewhere in Canada include the Métis and Acadians.
		The best-known lect of Québécois French is the so-called joual dialect, which combines traditional Quebec accent and vocabulary with a distinct vocabulary unto itself, including many anglicisms (adapted English words) and many latter-day French words that are not used in France as well.
		For example, the Parti Québécois, a provincial political party devoted to the sovereignty of Quebec, has long pursued policies promoting the use of French over other languages.
	www.wikiverse.org /quebecois (373 words)

	Québécois
		The Québécois are the most numerous group French-Canadians though communities of French-Canadians can be across the country especially in Manitoba Ontario and the Maritimes ; French-speaking cultural groups elsewhere in Canada the Métis and Acadians.
		The best-known lect of Québécois French the so-called joual dialect which combines traditional Quebec accent vocabulary with a distinct vocabulary unto itself many anglicisms (adapted English words) and many French words that are not used in as well.
		by Parti Québécois leaders especially Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard have been widely interpreted as assuming Québécois are francophone although these inferences are Nevertheless for an anglophone to describe himself herself in French as Québécois would be unexceptionable; in Canadian English would be contrary to general usage.
	www.freeglossary.com /Quebecois (373 words)

	The French Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico
		After the Civil War the number of French-Canadians arriving in the United States increased dramatically and by 1900 there were over 134,000 French-Canadians in Massachusetts alone.
		French emigration to America resumed in the mid-nineteenth century with political refugees fleeing the failed 1848 French revolution.
		Because French immigration to Louisiana was restricted to Roman Catholics, French Protestants (Huguenots) tended to settle in English colonies.
	www.abqarts.org /cultural/survey/french-cs.htm (3862 words)

	North American French
		By 1870, French Canadians represented one-sixth of the population and by 1880, two-thirds of it.
		Jane Smith, associate professor of French at the University of Maine, and Cynthia Fox, associate professor of French studies at the State University of New York at Albany, are teaming to fill that void.
		Residents of French Island in Old Town used to speak French as their primary language, but now it is rare to find anyone who still speaks it.
	www.umaine.edu /Research/bdn20020121.htm (1818 words)

	uni.ca - Origins of Quebec separatism
		The coming of hydroelectric power and the wood-pulp industry as a result of the successful national policy of protection in creating Canadian manufacturing plants in Quebec and Ontario created a labour force that brought French Canadians as workers into the cities, particularly Montreal.
		Until that time French Canadians had lived by agriculture and seasonal work in the timber trade.
		French Canadian nationalism was also the outcome of profound economic and social changes that had taken place in Quebec since about 1890.
	www.uni.ca /sep_origins.html (1818 words)

	The Habitant's Home Page
		In Canada, the early French Canadians settlers who cleared the land and farmed it were known as habitants.
		My booklet on French Canadians in Michigan, part of the Discovering the Peoples of Michigan series published by Michigan State University Press, is now available.
		This is an historical work that traces the two distinct waves of French Canadian immigrants to Michigan during the colonial period of the eighteenth century and the industrial period of the nineteenth century.
	habitant.org (525 words)

	American-French Genealogical Society: Links
		French Canadians in the 1842 Oregon Census -- List of French Canadians in Oregon census of 1842, often ignored or left out of contemporary listings.
		French Canadian-Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin -- Founded in 1982, the FCGW fosters and encourages interest and research in French Canadian and Acadian genealogy, heritage and culture.
		French Canadian Interest Group, of the Southern California Genealogical Society - - The primary purpose of the French-Canadian Interest Group is to research our own French-Canadian ancestors as well as to help others research theirs.
	www.afgs.org /genepges.html (3207 words)

	Quintin Publications Métis and First Nations Catalog
		French-Canadians of the West: A Biographical Dictionary of French-Canadians and French Métis of the Western United States and Canada by Peter J. Gagné.
		Since goals frequently conflicted, the war was as notable for cultural conflict with the French as for military engagements with the British.
		An alphabetized extraction of the applications for the Treaty with the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, and the Mississippi, concluded at La Pointe, Wisconsin, September 30, 1854.
	www.quintinpublications.com /metis.html (2944 words)

	France and England Clash in Quebec
		You say that the [French] Canadians use their privileges too freely for a conquered people, and you threaten them with the loss of those privileges...You absurdly ask whether the [French] Canadians have the right to exercise these privileges in their own language.
		During the Seven Years’ War, the British had numerical superiority over the French in both troops and settlers in the Americas, and wanted to increase their territorial holdings.
		Its inhabitants were ordered to abandon their French tradition and to follow British norms.
	www.frenchteachers.org /general/DOEgrant/Quebec/england.htm (894 words)

	North American French
		The term is still used in Québec for French Canadians who immigrated to the United States and their descendants.
		However, some kind suggestions and advice I received from both Americans and Canadians on the soc.genealogy.french Usenet News group has convinced me that a better term was needed.
		The term North American French is what I use to designate people of French ancestry living in Canada or the United States of America.
	habitant.org /franco.htm (1378 words)

	Quebec Nationalism - Quebec History
		French Canadians were not only a nation, they were a vast working class people dominated by Anglo-American capital.
		Only after long and protracted battles was French accepted on the stamps of Canada or on its currency, both symbols of the bicultural and bilingual nature of the country; meanwhile, few French Canadians rose in the civil service or in the army, and discrimination was rampant.
		These were the legal [French civil law], familial [large family, traditional role of the mother] or institutional elements [seigneurial system, classical colleges, co-operative movement] that characterised the nation and had to be preserved if the nation was to last.
	www2.marianopolis.ca /quebechistory/events/natpart3.htm (1378 words)

	uni.ca - History of Quebec nationalism
		French Canadians inside Québec (not Québec itself) are a nation within Canada, plain and simple (see definition, words page).
		What citizens concerned about Canadian unity must understand is what underlies the strategy of the separatists, for it is shared by a vast majority of French Canadians.
		French has status of official language in the Parliaments of Ottawa and Québec, and before Federal and Québec courts.
	www.uni.ca /history.html (1378 words)

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