* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

* 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist ( b. 1896 )

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Conversely in francophone Canada, one hundredth of a Canadian dollar is informally called a sou ( penny ), though cent is official in both English and French.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ) is a public organisation in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.

* Township ( Canada ), known as canton in Canadian French

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

# Telstar Deluxe ( 1977 ): aka " Video World Of Sports ", same as the Telstar but brown pedestal case with wood panel, made for Canadian market with French and English text.

* 1913 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director ( d. 2001 )

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation ( d. 1885 )

* 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker ( b. 1929 )

* 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian

* 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote ( d. 1839 )

* 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, French Canadian actress

* 1952 – Germain Houde, French Canadian actor

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Research Project Team composed of Eritrean, Canadian, American, Dutch and French scientists, discovered in 1999 a site with stone and obsidian tools dated to over 125 000 years old ( from the paleolithic ) era near the Bay of Zula south of Massawa along the Red Sea coast.

1828 – January 9, 1901 ) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

* French Canadian fiddling including " crooked tunes ," that is, tunes with irregular beat patterns.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

In the 17th century, the French had a monopoly on the Canadian fur trade.

However, two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, learned from the Cree that the best fur country was north and west of Lake Superior and that there was a " frozen sea " still further north.

The French continued their fur trade on the river under Spanish license.

Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.

Nez Percé is an exonym given by French Canadian fur traders who visited the area regularly in the late 18th century, meaning literally ' pierced nose '.

French fur traders operated in the area, and France built forts along the Allegheny River.

In 1920, Flaherty secured funds from Revillon Frères, a French fur trade company to shoot what was to become Nanook of the North.

* July 7 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer ( b. c. 1657 )

French fur traders and trappers traveled throughout the St. Lawrence and Mississippi watersheds, did business with local tribes, and often married Indian women.

Michif ( also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree ) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women ( mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe ) and fur trade workers of European ancestry ( mainly French Canadians and Scottish Canadians ).

The majority of these fur traders were Scottish and French and were Catholic.

Later the movement of the fur trade brought about more unions between French and Cree.

It is possible that the city was named after early settler Mary Lloyd, but now the name is thought to be derived from French fur trappers ' naming of Marys Peak after the Virgin Mary.

Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, as far as the Rocky Mountains, they did not usually settle down.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

In the French colonial regions, the focus of economy was the fur trade with the natives.

In the north, the Hudson's Bay Company actively traded for fur with the indigenous peoples, and had competed with French, Aboriginal, and Metis fur traders.

The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders.

The French were trying to gain advantage in the struggle for the North American fur trade against the English, who had recently established the Hudson's Bay Company.

Fort Pierre itself was named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader of French origin.

In the early 19th century, European settlement started at a greater pace, after exploration during previous decades by French trappers and British and American fur traders.