12 Facts About French Canada

Between 1840 and 1930, many French Canada Canadians immigrated to New England, an event known as the Grande Hemorragie.

The original use of the term French Canada referred to the land area along the St Lawrence River, divided in three districts, as well as to the Pays d'en Haut, a vast and thinly settled territorial dependence north and west of Montreal which covered the whole of the Great Lakes area.

Many French Canada Canadians are the descendants of the King's Daughters of this era.

The French Canada spoken in Ontario, the Canadian West, and New England can trace their roots back to Quebec French Canada because of Quebec's diaspora.

French Canada-speaking population have massively chosen the "Canadian" ethnic group since the government made it possible, which has made the current statistics misleading.

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The majority of the French Canada-Canadian population in the United States is found in the New England area, although there is a large French Canada-Canadian presence in Plattsburgh, New York, across Lake Champlain from Burlington, Vermont.

Smaller groups of French Canada Canadians settled in the Midwest, notably in the states of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota.

French Canada-Canadians settled in central North Dakota, largely in Rolette and Bottineau counties, and in South Dakota.

French Canadians living in Canada express their cultural identity using a number of terms.

Jantzen distinguishes the English Canadian, meaning "someone whose family has been in Canada for multiple generations", and the French Canadien, used to refer to descendants of the original settlers of New France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In L'avenir du francais aux Etats-Unis, Calvin Veltman and Benoit Lacroix found that since the French Canada language has been so widely abandoned in the United States, the term "French Canada Canadian" has taken on an ethnic rather than linguistic meaning.

French Canada Canadians have selectively bred distinct livestock over the centuries, including cattle, horses and chickens.