Canadian Englishn.

1811 National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 Dec. I have no doubt but the Canadian French are as good citizens as the Canadian English.

1882 T. Roosevelt Naval War 1812 I. iv. 150 [The seamen] were of exactly the same stock, with the sole exception that among and under, but entirely distinct from, the Canadian-English, fought the descendents of the conquered Canadian-French.

1946 Minnesota Hist. 27 209 Relatively few of the Canadian English..became miners.

2012 G. I. Leitsch in T. Bueltmann et al. Locating Eng. Diaspora vi. 101 The Canadian English ‘have not been considered an ethnic group’.

1857 Canad. Jrnl. Industry Sci. & Art Sept. 353 These and a thousand other examples which might be produced, fully justify the use of the term ‘Canadian English’, as expressive of a corrupt dialect growing up amongst our population.

1899 Mod. Lang. Notes 14 125/2 The comparison between the various English speeches—pure English, Canadian English, American English, etc., will prove useful to the reader.

1926 Motor Boating May 92 I surmised that ‘Hear’ in Canadian-English had the same meaning as ‘Amen’.

1986 M. Benson et al. Lexicogr. Descr. Eng. ii. 14 In Canadian English both AE and BE spellings may be found.

2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 Jan. r7 Canadian English, which insouciantly has absorbed words as needed from Canadian French and aboriginal languages, also pilfers from the vocabularies of newer arrivals.