Definition
The presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural, linguistic, and political force within the Canadian Confederation.
In Context
- "By highlighting the many fascinating French facts - those fabulous cultural idiosyncrasies that make the province so unique, though not in any political sense of the term — and vigorously denouncing all ethnical slights, the stent in the vein of English-speaking Canada's genetic hard-heartedness has been, thanks to literary anastomosis, rendered ineffective."