X-Nico

5 unusual facts about English Canadian


Chiac

It is a more recent development of the French language, spurred by exposure to dominant English-language media (radio, television, internet) and increased urbanization to Moncton and contact with the dominant Anglophone community in the area since the 1960s especially.

English Canadian

Although it has many Francophone officers, in popular culture the mountie has been typically represented by an anglophone, such as Dudley Do-Right, Benton Fraser or Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

In the post war era, although Canada was committed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, English Canadians took considerable pride in the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Lester Pearson for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis and have been determined supporters of the peacekeeping activities of the United Nations.

In the 1970s authors such as Margaret Laurence in The Stone Angel and Robertson Davies in Fifth Business explored the changing worlds of small town Manitoba and Ontario respectively.

Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

Laurence was picked despite being a Canadian Anglophone with little experience singing in the French language.


Advisory Committee on Vice-Regal Appointments

The non-partisan committee consists of its chairperson—the Canadian Secretary to the Queen (presently Kevin MacLeod)—as well as two permanent federal delegates, one Anglophone (presently Robert Watt, citizenship judge and former Chief Herald of Canada) and one Francophone (presently Jacques Monet, constitutional scholar and member of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies); each serves for a time not exceeding six years.

English Canada

# English Canadian, in some historical contexts, refers to Canadians who have origins in England (in contrast to Scottish Canadians, Irish Canadians etc.).

Le Livre noir du Canada anglais

The books responded to perceived Quebec bashing in the English Canadian press following the airing of Heritage Minutes, the treatment of the 1995 Quebec referendum and the federalist advertising campaign that would later develop into the sponsorship scandal.

Luc Larivée

At one stage, he charged that anglophones would “more or less eventually disappear” from Quebec as a result of the PQ's language legislation.


see also

Hawtin

Richie Hawtin (born 1970), English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ

La Fin du monde est à 7 heures

Hosted by Marc Labrèche, the program was a satirical take on news and current affairs, somewhat similar in style to the English Canadian series This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

McKenty

Neil McKenty (born 1924), English-Canadian radio and television broadcaster and author

Western Standard

On February 13, 2006 the Western Standard attracted controversy when it became the first widely published English Canadian media outlet to republish the cartoons of Muhammad first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.