14 Facts About English Canadians

The term English Canadians-speaking Canadian is sometimes used interchangeably with English Canadians Canadian.

Categorically as an ethnic group, English Canadians comprise a subgroup of British Canadians which is a further subgroup of European Canadians.

The province received immigrants from non English Canadians-speaking sources such as Germans, many of whom settled around Kitchener .

Larger numbers of English Canadians-speaking settlers arrived in the Eastern Townships and Montreal after the American Revolution.

Many English Canadians-speaking Quebeckers left Quebec following the election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 resulting in a steep decline in the anglophone population; many who have remained have learned French in order to function within the dominant Francophone society.

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The sacrifices and accomplishments of Canadians at battles such as Vimy Ridge and the Dieppe Raid in France are well known and respected among English Canadians and helped forge a more common sense of nationality.

English Canadians-speakers are in the minority only in Quebec and Nunavut.

Except in Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces, most Canadian English Canadians is only subtly different from English Canadians spoken in much of the mid-western and western United States.

Languages besides English Canadians are spoken extensively in provinces with English Canadians-speaking majorities.

However, many Canadians who identify other ethnic origins for the purpose of the census might identify as 'English Canadian' in the broader sense of 'English-speaking Canadians' and possibly share some cultural affinities with the group identifying itself as 'English Canadian' in the more limited sense.

So-called 'English Canadians' include a large segment who do not identify as Christian.

Jackson, captured images of the wilderness in ways that forced English Canadians to discard their conservative and traditional views of art.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is often claimed by English Canadians Canada because of his residence on Cape Breton Island, although he was born in Scotland and later moved to the United States.

Traditional music in much of English Canadians-speaking Canada has sources in the music of Scotland and Ireland, brought to Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces in the 19th century.