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Sailors from Hawaii and other Polynesian islands worked on many of the big whaling ships that set out from the northeastern coast of the United States. It quickly became a slang expression that could be hurled at any foreigner, especially one who had a darker skin colour than Americans of British or Irish origin.

That applied to Polynesian sailors, and to many people from Lower Canada, or present-day Quebec, particularly those with a mixture of French and Indigenous ancestry. The word Canadien, at the time, referred exclusively to a speaker of French. The word entered the printed record in in the pages of a book by a British traveller named Henry Cook Todd. The American usage soon spread north across the border.

As the decades passed, a Canuck became simply a Canadian — regardless of language, ethnic heritage or skin colour. Occasionally, the word served as a nickname not only for Canadian people but also for the Canadian horse — one of the major breeds of horse in North America during the midth century.

The term had once been an example of American scorn, but Canadians were ready to transform that scorn into pride. It became a nickname Canadians applied to themselves. All three of these figures are patriotic, assertive and proud; they accept insults from no one.

Johnny Canuck sprang to life in , two years after Confederation , when the threat of invasion from the United States was still a concern. A cartoon in a Montreal humour magazine named Grinchuckle showed a stalwart, honest young hero kicking the conniving Uncle Sam back across the border. The cartoonists portrayed Janey Canuck as an embodiment of female virtue. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. Schedule Game Calendar Schedule Downloads.

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