Figure 1.--A French Canadian reader tells us, "I send you a photograph of my little girl with two of her friends in the 1980s. The little boy standing-up is Louis-Philippe Ladouceur who is football player with the Dallas Cowboys." HBC notes that through the 1950s there were differences between how French Canadians and American children dressed. Notably by the 1980s there was no longer any substantial differences. Notice the hair styles are also the same. |
Canada is composed of several distinct regions. First there are the easterly maritimes, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Second, there is Quebec, the center of French culture where many but apparently not a majority would like to leave English-dominated Canada and form there own country. Canadian reader has provided us an assessment of Quebec cultural trends. While Quebec is a majority-French speaking province, a French Canadian reader reminds us that there are English speakers in the province as well. At Port Daniel in Gaspesia lived English-speaking people. They were for the most part fishermen. Many came from the Channel Islnds (Guernesey and Jersey). Some families like the Robin spoke French even if protestants. Third there is Ontario--the tradituonal English center. Fourth there is the plains provinces, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Albeta, and the Pacific coast province of British Colombia. HBC believes that there there have been some regional diferences on these between these areas, but does not know enough yet about Canada to identify them. Since World War II, however, these regional differences have largely disappeared.
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