French Canadian
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3.3
- noun
- /frɛntʃ kəˈneɪdiən/
- Canadian
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canadiense francés
- In Montreal, a French Canadian family gathered to celebrate the national holiday with music and food.
They're all, you know, French Canadian by by derivation.
- They're all, you know, French Canadian by by derivation.
- And I just wanted to mention too that one of the characters is called Vesa Kutsur and he's a French Canadian, like the author, like me.
- So my family on my mother's side, the family I was adopted into is a large French Canadian family called the Lemres.
- And the term palliative care came from a French Canadian surgeon, Balfour Mount, who said, you know, that term doesn't make sense in French because it means an Omhouse, Omhouse for the poor.
- We we read French Canadian books, which but never had to read Shakespeare.
Examples
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Jean-Claude Dupont has written a useful compendium of French-Canadian folktales, songs, and lore about breadmaking.
Academic text (1996) -
The young French Canadian is making quite an impression in his debut here at the Motor Speedway.
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Could you find that nice French Canadian man?
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And can you find a French Canadian talk show on the radio?
Fiction book (1995) -
Official numbers of French Canadian soldiers are in fact hard to come by since language is not mentioned on recruitment forms.
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The lights of the little French-Canadian city were coming on.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yes, you're a French Canadian.
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The people who owned the barn were the LaRivieres, an old French-Canadian family, who had a sign over the barn door.
Fiction book (1997) -
For rural French-Canadians of Hemon's day, making bread often took on profound spiritual significance.
Academic text (1996) -
In the lobby, he saw Louise Benoit, that beautiful French Canadian postdoctoral student from SNO.
Fiction book (2002)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly built from 'French' (language/nationality) + 'Canadian' (person from Canada), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a Canadian of French background or French-speaking Canadian. This compositional, demographically-based label is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent adjective+noun naming patterns.
Etymology
The noun French Canadian comes from people from France who moved to Canada long ago. It links French (the people and their language) with Canadian (people from Canada), so it means 'a Canadian whose ancestors were French and whose native language is French'.