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What provinces are classified as Canada (Fr)?

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Re: What provinces are classified as Canada (Fr)?

Posted: 13 Jul 2005 11:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
As I understood the directions, if Mama et Papa spoke French back home in Canada, then the kids' entry would be "Canada-French" no matter what province they lived in. Everyone else gets recorded as "Canada-Eng", even if they spoke Hungarian around the house, according to the instructions for 1930.

So, Pierre la Blatte would be enumerated as C/F even if he lived in Manitoba, and Jack Moosehead would be enumerated as C/E even if he lived in Quebec.

While most of the French-speaking people in Canada live in Quebec, they move around, just like Americans do; you can find Yankee twangs in Texas and Texas drawls in Maine, if you look around.

There may have been a subtle anti-Catholic bias to the distinction, since they couldn't ask about religion. Most French Canadians are Catholic, most English ones are Protestant.
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kob35irish 13 Jul 2005 7:53AM GMT 
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