Canadian American RV Culture Difference

Little Kopit wrote:

John & Angela wrote:


Of the 11 million French speakers in Canada about 6 million live in Quebec. Many live in Canada's only bilingual province, New Brunswick. It is more common to find bilingualism in New Brunswick. PEI also has a high French speaking (Acadian) population. Manitoba as well as Alberta have some comunities that are predominantly french speaking . They are however of course bilingual. Quebec is different. It's history has always been French and the outcome of a war doesn't change that. It is not a bilingual province, it is officially a unilingual province. French.

Most Canadian provinces have some significant populations of Francophones. Key areas missed above: Newfoundland and Labrador, especially the west coast ----- Check subject The French Shore; Nova Scotia - remember the transportation of Acadians from western Nova Scotia and also visit Cheticamp; Northern Ontario, and remember that the fur trade out of Montreal went into both areas of what is now western Canada and the USA. & of course, north eastern USA has populations of French background. Cousins who are Pothier's in Nova Scotia are Porters in Massachusetts. Check genealogical sources, such as Stephen White's Acadian Genealogy.

:C

Thanks for the additional contribution. I remember speaking French to some Newfoundlanders in the mid 90's. I had considerable difficulty as they spoke very fast and with their own interesting dialect. Lots of nouns I had never heard before but I seem to recall them using place names differently in phrases as well. It was a fun experience and I'm sure they got a kick out of the English guy trying to keep up with them in their own unique brand of French. Way fun.