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This page lists Canadian citizens or people of pre-Confederation colonies that formed to make or joined the country of Canada who are of partial ethnic or national French descent. Most have sub-categories listed here below.
More than two million people in Quebec have a name of Norman origin. [4] Anctil: a variant spelling of Anquetil. Bellemare: common family name in Mauricie. Bérubé: originates in the Pays de Caux. Carpentier: a surname from Picardy and Upper Normandy. Coté [4] Gagné [4] Gagnon [4] Hébert: Norman variant of Herbert. Normand; Talbot
People who claim some French-Canadian ancestry or heritage number some 7 million in Canada. In the United States, 2.4 million people report French-Canadian ancestry or heritage, while an additional 8.4 million claim French ancestry; they are treated as a separate ethnic group by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe general, World War II fighter ace; Paul de Gually (died 1737), French Huguenot soldier who became major-general in the British Army; Henri Guisan, Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II; Michel Hollard, French Resistance figure who told British Intelligence about the V-1. [463]
This category lists French Canadians: citizens of Canada who are first language francophone or who, despite being anglophone, self-identify as French Canadian or as a member of the various sub-ethnic groups, listed here as subcategories. (Note: French Canadians do not necessarily have ethnic French origins or ancestry.)
Canadian civilians killed in World War II (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Canadian people of World War II" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Minnie "Jerri" Mumford (1909–2002) – serving member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) during World War II; Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II; Henry Norwest MM & Bar (1884–1918) – sniper in World War I
Approximately 900,000 Quebec residents [1] [2] (French Canadian for the great majority) left for the United States between 1840 and 1930. They were pushed to emigrate by overpopulation in rural areas that could not sustain them under the seigneurial system of land tenure, but also because the expansion of this system was in effect blocked by the "Château Clique" that ruled Quebec under the ...