Canadian Americans

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Canadian Americans
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Canadian ancestry by census division (2023)
Total population
French Canadians : 255,600 alone or 933,700 incl. combination
Canadians: 255,000 alone or 580,500 incl. combination [1]
Regions with significant populations
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Languages
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Religion
Christianity[2]
Related ethnic groups
Americans, American Canadians, Canadians
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A French-Canadian family from Montréal in 1913

Canadian Americans (Template:Langx) are American citizens (or in some uses residents) whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian, American Canadian origin, or citizens of either country who hold dual citizenship.[3] Today, many Canadian Americans and American Canadians hold both US and Canadian citizenship.

The term Canadian can mean a nationality or an ethnicity. Canadians are considered North Americans due their residing in the North American continent. English-speaking Canadian immigrants easily integrate and assimilate into northern and western U.S. states as a result of many cultural similarities, and in the similar accent in spoken English.[4] French Canadians, because of language and culture, tend to take longer to assimilate.[5] However, by the 3rd generation, they are often fully culturally assimilated, and the Canadian identity is more or less folklore.[6] This took place, even though half of the population of the province of Quebec emigrated to the US between 1840 and 1930.[7] Many New England cities formed 'Little Canadas', but many of these have gradually disappeared.

This cultural "invisibility" within the larger US population is seen as creating stronger affinity among Canadians living in the US than might otherwise exist.[8] According to US Census estimates, the number of Canadian residents was around 640,000 in 2000.[9] Some sources have cited the number to possibly be over 1,000,000.[10] This number, though, is far smaller than the number of Americans who can trace part or the whole of their ancestry to Canada. The percentage of these in the New England states is almost 25% of the total population.

In some regions of the United States, especially New England or the Midwest, a Canadian American often means one whose ancestors came from Canada.[11]

Canadian American Day

The Connecticut State Senate unanimously passed a bill in 2009, making June 24 Canadian American Day in the state of Connecticut. The bill allows state officials to hold ceremonies at the capitol and other places each year to honor Americans of Canadian ancestry.[12]

Aboriginal Canadian Americans

As a consequence of Article 3 of the Jay Treaty of 1794, official First Nations status, or in the United States, Native American status, also confers the right to live and work on either side of the border. Unlike the U.S., Canada has not codified the Jay Treaty. Canadian courts readily reject the Jay Treaty free passage of goods right.[13]

Study

Some institutions in the United States focus on Canadian-American studies, including the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine,[14] the Center for Canadian American studies at Western Washington University,[15] and the University at Buffalo Canadian-American Studies Committee.[16]

Notable people

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Over Half of White Population Reported Being English, German or Irish". Census.gov. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cortés, Carlos E. (August 15, 2013). Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-5063-3278-9.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cain, Patrick (April 4, 2014). "How to get rid of your U.S. citizenship". Global News Canada. Archived from the original on July 18, 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Veta: Good vocabulary - Accent training online - American Accent". veta.in. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011.
  5. ^ l'Actualité économique, Vol. 59, No 3, (september 1983): 423-453 and Yolande LAVOIE, L'Émigration des Québécois aux États-Unis de 1840 à 1930, Québec, Conseil de la langue française, 1979.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barkan, Elliott Robert (1980). "French Canadians". In Thernstrom, Stephan; Orlov, Ann; Handlin, Oscar (eds.). Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA / London: Harvard University Press. p. 392. ISBN 0674375122. OCLC 1038430174.
  7. ^ l'Actualité économique, Vol. 59, No. 3 (September 1983): 423–453 and Yolande LAVOIE, L'Émigration des Québécois aux États-Unis de 1840 à 1930, Québec, Conseil de la langue française, 1979.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Program No. 65 "Who's Canadian"". This American Life. Chicago Public Radio. May 30, 1997. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2009.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brittingham, Angela; de la Cruz, G. Patricia (June 2004). "Ancestry: 2000" (PDF). Census 2000 Brief. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2004. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stewart, Alice R. (1987). "The Franco-Americans of Maine: A Historiographical Essay". Maine Historical Society Quarterly. 26 (3): 160–179.
  11. ^ Mark Paul Richard, From 'Canadien' to American: The Acculturation of French-Canadian Descendants in Lewiston, Maine, 1860 to the Present, PhD dissertation, Duke University, 2002; Dissertation Abstracts International, 2002 62(10): 3540-A. DA3031009, 583p.
  12. ^ Edmonton Sun, April 21, 2009
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nickels, Bryan. "Native American Free Passage Rights Under the 1794 Jay Treaty: Survival Under United States Statutory Law and Canadian Common Law". Boston College. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canadian-American Center". University of Maine. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Center For Canadian American Studies". WWU. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canadian American Studies Committee, University at Buffalo". buffalo.edu. Archived from the original on September 17, 2011.

Further reading

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