13 Facts About French Canadians

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

French Canadians get their name from Canada, the most developed and densely populated region of New France during the period of French colonization in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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

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

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

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

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 Canadians Canadien, used to refer to descendants of the original settlers of New France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Confederation united several former British colonies into the Dominion of Canada, and from that time forward, the word "Canadian" has been used to describe both English-speaking and French Canadians-speaking citizens, wherever they live in the country.

French Canadians later emigrated in large numbers from Canada to the United States between the 1840s and the 1930s in search of economic opportunities in border communities and industrialized portions of New England.

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

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