Old Stock Canadians
Vieux Stock canadiens (French) | |
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One version of the Canadian Red Ensign. The banners on the shield represent the ancestries usually associated with 'Old Stock Canadians' (English, Scottish, Irish, French). | |
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| Canada and the United States | |
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Christianity
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| Old Stock Americans, English, French, Québécois, Acadians, Irish, Scots, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants |
Old Stock Canadians is a term referring to Western European Canadians whose families have lived in Canada for many generations (prior to Confederation). It is used by some to refer exclusively to English-speaking Canadians with British Isles settler ancestors, but it usually refers to British/Irish Canadians and French Canadians as parallel old stock groups. Ethnic French Canadians, who descend from French settlers in New France (prior to the Conquest of New France in 1760), are sometimes referred to as pure laine, often translated as "dyed in the wool", but with the same connotation as old stock.