why there are french in canada?

Question

i dont mean ppl from french that come to canada as tourist, but those who live there..
how come there are huge number of french ppl at canada?
is canada was once colonised by france before?
to say that they were immigrant also cant since canada and french are far....

so french canadians have bigger population than real canadians?

Answer 1

Jeez, where have you been ? Canada ( with capital C ) was colonized both by english and French. There was a war, as usual, and England won. Nevertheless, the French who were already there stayed there. Canada is a bicultural and bilingual contry

Answer 2

France colonised what is now Quebec (and Labrador in Newfoundland, and maybe parts of what are now New Brunswick and/or Nova Scotia) in the 1600s. They sent over governors, priests, and women called "les filles du Roi" (the daughters of the king) to marry the fur-traders who moved there and couldn't find their way back. The fur-traders and filles du Roi got married and had dozens of kids and settled on farms in a pretty-much serf-like way. In 1759 the British decided they wanted more land (they had all the land surrounding the French-owned areas) so they attacked. Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city and France said, yeah, whatever, take it. **** it's cold there. The British tried to teach the French Canadians to be good English Protestants but they just kept on making babies and speaking French to them and making them go to Mass so the Brits figured let'em, we have all the money anyway. When Canada became a country, they included in the constitution (actually it wasn't officially a constitution until 1982) the provision that Quebec could stay French and French speakers in other provinces could stay French, just as long as they stayed Catholic and didn't develop a work ethic and want better jobs. The French-speakers kept up that bargain but it meant having tons of babies, up until the 1960s when they stopped having tons of babies and going to church and decided instead that they should be able to get better jobs and even go into politics. Bombed a few mailboxes in October 1970 and more or less got their way.
And yeah, some people move to Canada (especially Quebec) from France or Switzerland or Belgium or French-speaking parts of Africa, but most of the French-speakers there are descended from the original Filles du Roi.


Edit: Not sure what "real Canadians" are, but French Canadians make up about 25% of the population. If I had to guess, I'd say 40% of Canadians are of British extraction, and maybe 15% Irish. Lot of eastern European in there and plenty of other nationalities. My husband says all Canadians can identify their ethnic make-up to the nearest 1/16th. He's 16/16 Swiss and I'm 8/16 English, 6/16th Scottish and 2/16th Northern Irish. So you can figure out the kids.

Answer 3

Mainly, the french Canadians are found in the province of Québec
and in Manitoba. But they're also found in New-Brunswick (Acadie) and in Ontario.
Québec province was the first territory discover when the France & England were searching a road to Asia. The french people were the first to colonize Québec but in no time England send some people also. During several decades, French people would be found more in North of the St-Laurent "fleuve" and the english more south of it... So, in majority, Canadians are descendants of England, France and of course, Indians who already live there before the europeans came.

Answer 4

Canada was jointly settled by the English and French, thus the initial populous was immigrant from both countries.

The french and English immigrants kept their respective cultures and language, and both are listed as official languages.

French Canadians are real Canadians, however they are fewer in numbers.

Answer 5

Many places in Canada were French colonies.
England colonized the US area while the French colonized the Canada area and Spain got the lower (now Latin) countries.

Answer 6

they are french Canadians....
back in the day when England and France were colonizing the Americas, both people settled. Some french descendant people still live in the Quebec region (where Montreal is).
There are also french descendants living in Louisiana (Cajun people)

Answer 7

France colonized many those territories, dont you see the funny names of some cities there that hasnt to do anything with english, and also many parts of what is now the US, for example Lousiana, dont you think that the name New Orleans has something to do with France, or havent you heard of the maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc, because there were or there are a city in france named Orleans.

Answer 8

The French Revolution and they stayed up in Canada. My relatives who are french live in places like Montreal and Toronto.

Answer 9

Canada was a french colony. I hope that answers your question.

Answer 10

the Canadians are the only ones that would take the stinky bastards