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French Canadians


French Canadians are by far Canada’s largest minority, with some 7.2 million (20.6 per cent) Canadians having French as their mother tongue in the 2016 Canadian Census. French Canadians are considered to be one of the country’s three founding nations, along with English Canadians and indigenous peoples. Most are Catholic and trace their heritage to French colonists who settled in the Atlantic region and along the St Lawrence River in the 1600s and 1700s. French is one of Canada’s two official languages, along with English, and it enjoys special protection under the Canadian Constitution. Many French-speakers consider the homeland of French culture in North America to be the province of Quebec, where the large majority (6.2 million in the 2016 Census) of native French–speakers are based. Not all French-speakers are of French descent, especially in modern-day Quebec, and not all people of French-Canadian heritage are exclusively or primarily French-speaking.

Read more at:
https://minorityrights.org/minorities/french-canadians/

The History of Canada under French Regime 1535 - 1763
By H. H. Miles, LL.D., D.C.L., (1872) (pdf)

The Campaign of 1815
Paper read by Mr. R. E. Kingsford, M.A., at a meeting of the Canadian Institute (pdf)


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