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English Canadian

American  

noun

  1. an English-speaking Canadian.


English Canadian British  

noun

  1. a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of English Canadian

First recorded in 1810–20

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Maclean’s magazine called it “a whimsical swirl of opera, hockey and romance that busted open the narrow horizons of English Canadian cinema.”

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2010

It was adapted into an English version by a team of English Canadian catechists who have now joined their French brothers in the writing of grades 4, 5 and 6.

From Time Magazine Archive

As far as U.S. influence is concerned, I would go further than your Essay and say that there is no visible, or even perceptible, difference between an American and an English Canadian.

From Time Magazine Archive

The streets, the shops, the cafés, were crowded with English, Canadian, and Australian soldiers.

From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

He put a large sum of English, Canadian and American money—including much of his own—into the work of building up a great establishment which was just on a paying basis when the war broke out.

From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

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