As autumn starts its annual sweep, few Americans and Canadians realize how fortunate they are in having the world's finest fall coloring.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

Only some 4 % of Canadians are employed in these fields, and they account for 6. 2 % of GDP.

Pop culture has depicted and parodied the efforts of both nations to solidify their cultural uniqueness — primarily by Canada, as its population and economy are roughly one tenth that of the United States — to deter international perception that Americans and Canadians are virtually identical.

English is the first language, or " mother tongue ", of approximately 24 million Canadians ( 77 %), and more than 28 million ( 86 %) are fluent in the language.

82 % of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the figure drops to just 7. 7 % as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French.

As such, Canadian English and American English are sometimes classified together as North American English, emphasizing the fact that the vast majority of outsiders even from English speaking countries ( and even Canadians and Americans themselves ), cannot distinguish Canadian English from American English by sound.

* In other cases, Canadians and Americans differ from British spelling, such as in the case of nouns like curb and tire, which in British English are spelled kerb and tyre.

* Canadians side with the British on the pronunciation of shone, often lever, and several other words ; been is pronounced by many speakers as rather than ; as in Southern England, either and neither are more commonly and, respectively.

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

Canadian culture is a term that explains the artistic, musical, literary, culinary, political and social elements that are representative of Canada and Canadians, not only to its own population, but people all over the world.

Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( Jean Rouch ) and the North American " Direct Cinema " ( or more accurately " Cinéma direct "), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles.

Canadians have a somewhat limited access to firearms, but are still able to purchase them with relative ease.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

* For travel to the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon directly from Canada, Canadians and foreign nationals holding Canadian identification documents are exempted from passport and visa requirements for stays of maximum duration of 3 months within a period of 6 months.

A three-country poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in July 2010 found that Canadians swear more often than Americans and Britons when talking to friends, while Britons are more likely than Canadians and Americans to hear strangers swear during a conversation.

When asked if Québécois are a nation, only 53 per cent of Canadians agreed, 47 per cent disagreed, with 33 per cent strongly disagreeing ; 78 per cent of French-speaking Canadians agreed that Québécois are a nation, next to 38 per cent of English-speakers.

In day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians generally still refer to the province itself as Newfoundland and to the region on the Canadian mainland as Labrador.

French-speaking Canadians varied in their reaction ; the land-owning seigneurs and clergy were generally happy with its provisions although the populace resented their loss of liberties.

On 4 February 1775 Governor Guy Carleton wrote to General Thomas Gage that he believed the Canadians to be generally happy with the Act, yet he also added:

To date, outside of academic circles, there has been little national debate on the Canadian monarchy, a subject about which most Canadians are generally unaware.

Canadians generally consider Snow Dome the hydrological apex of North America because they consider Hudson Bay an extension of the Atlantic Ocean, and because Snow Dome is higher than Triple Divide Peak and receives considerably more precipitation.

In addition until the Quiet Revolution, higher education was accessible to only a minority of French Canadians because of the generally low level of formal education and expense involved.

English Canadians generally supported the war effort as they felt stronger ties to the British Empire.

The 20 % of Canadians whose native language is neither English nor French are generally lumped into one of the two groups according to their knowledge and usage of the official languages.

:“ Canadians often think that their neighbour to the south exhibits wild swings of emotional attachments … with other countries ; that it is impatient, is prone to making sweeping judgments, and generally lacks sophistication and subtlety in its approach to the Soviet bloc and the cold war .”

Opponents of sovereignty generally believe it to be a dangerous idea due to the political, financial, personal and economic ties between Quebeckers and other Canadians.

What Eastern Canadians refer to as " cottages " ( seasonal-use dwellings ), are generally referred to as " cabins " in most of North America.

Although the term is generally considered to be Americentric in nature, the positive traits typical of this stereotype are also generally applied to neighboring Canadians.

US sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, for example, contrasted POGG with the American tripartite motto to conclude Canadians generally believe in a higher degree of deference to the law.

It has normally served as the senior award for Canadians, who are generally ineligible to receive knighthoods under Prime Ministerial policy ( see the defunct Nickle Resolution ).

In the Second World War, Canadians serving in Jamaica and Hong Kong wore Canadian pattern KD ; the I Canadian Corps troops in Italy wore KD supplied in theatre by the British, generally of British, Indian or US ( War Aid ) manufacture.

However, since January 1, 2004, a Mexican citizen must follow a similar procedure to Canadians, but they must first obtain a US TN-2 visa at a US consulate ( generally in Mexico ).

In Canada, the spelling system can be said to follow both British and American forms, and Canadians are somewhat more tolerant of foreign spellings when compared to other English-speaking nationalities.

Furthermore, Canadians – both Inuit and non-Inuit – sometimes use the word Inuktitut to refer to all of the Inuit language variants, including those of Alaska and Greenland.

In Canada, both French-and English-speaking Canadians refer to both the European and North American conflicts as the Seven Years ' War ( Guerre de Sept Ans ).

By this point the sport's more serious organization was drawing internationally with notable Canadians such as John Eaves which went on to win world titles, Francois Brosseau and Michel Daigle who both went on to train many other successful Canadian freestyle skiers.

Buchan conveyed to Buckingham Palace and British prime minister Stanley Baldwin Canadians ' deep affection for the King, but also the outrage to Canadian religious feelings, both Catholic and Protestant, that would occur if Edward married Simpson.

Other early-1980s NAPLPS technology was deployed in Canada, both as a way for rural Canadians to get news and weather information and as the platform for touchscreen information kiosks.

While the Charter has enjoyed a great deal of popularity, with 82 % of Canadians describing it as a " good thing " in opinion polls in 1987 and 1999, the document has also been subject to published criticisms from both sides of the political spectrum.

Groulx was later remembered both for his strong case in favour of economic reconquest of Quebec by French Canadians, defense of the French language, and pioneer work as the first chair of Canadian history in Quebec ( Universite de Montreal ; see Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec, Toronto University Press, 1997 ).

Fellow Canadians Joe Thornton ( then of the Boston Bruins ) and Joe Sakic ( Colorado Avalanche ), who each wore the number 19 for their respective NHL clubs and who were now eligible to wear it for team Canada due to Yzerman's enforced absence, both refused the number out of respect for their injured countryman.

Since many of the new Canadians were also veterans of Loyalist regiments, they brought both the British sympathies and the military training to establish competent professional forces to oppose the perceived American threat.

While the organization and capitalization of the North West Company came from Anglo-Quebecers, both Simon McTavish and Joseph Frobisher married French Canadians.

Numerous French Canadians played key roles in the operations both in the building, management, and shareholding of the various trading posts scattered throughout the country, as well numbering among the voyageurs involved in the actual trading with natives.

For example, Fischtein, Herold and Desmarais ( 2005 ) found that acceptance of toplessness in a sample of Canadians varied depending on both personal factors ( such as the respondent's gender, age, and religion ) and contextual factors ( i. e. toplessness in streets, parks, or beaches ).

The act was problematic for both English speakers and French speakers ; the French Canadians felt they might be overshadowed by English settlement and increased rights for Protestants, while the new English-speaking settlers felt the French Canadians still had too much power.

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was deliberately constructed straddling the border for access for both Canadians and Americans.

When he was in residence, Vanier would pray twice daily in the chapel that was eventually fit into the palace's second floor and, at a time when the Canadian federation was under threat from separatists factions in Quebec, Vanier delivered numerous speeches, in both French and English, and infused with words praising the co-habitation of Anglophone and Francophone Canadians ; in one of the last orations he gave, he said: " The road of unity is the road of love: love of one's country and faith in its future will give new direction and purpose to our lives, lift us above our domestic quarrels, and unite us in dedication to the common good ...

Upper Canadians were given a choice in the matter of union, which they accepted ; Lower Canada had no say, and as a result many French Canadians were opposed to both the union and Sydenham himself.

That September, Via published a single timetable with information on both CN and CP trains, marking the first time that Canadians could find all major passenger trains in one publication.

During World War I ( against threat of Communism from 1914 to 1920 ) and World War II ( perceived threat by Japanese Canadians after Pearl Harbor from 1942 to 1945 ) the Act was enacted for the duration of both of the two world wars.

A small number of non-whites from outside the United States have also played in the NFL through the years, with notable examples from the past including running backs Rueben Mayes and Tim Biakabutuka ( both Black Canadians ) and Christian Okoye ( Nigerian ) and current examples including defensive linemen Israel Idonije ( also a Black Canadian ), Amobi Okoye ( also Nigerian ), and Osi Umenyiora ( Black British ) as well as fullback Jehuu Caulcrick ( Liberian ).

The park is now equally staffed by both Americans and Canadians.