English Canada

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English Canada is a term used to describe either:

1. English-Canadians, a term for the English-speaking majority population of Canada.
2. The Canadian provinces which are majority anglophone. Today, this includes all of them other than Quebec.
3. English Canadian, in some historical contexts, is used to designate English-Canadians, Canadians of English origin (in contrast to Scottish-Canadians, Irish-Canadians etc.).
4. Among supporters of the two-nations theory, English-Canada is one of those two nations, the other being French Canada. English-Canada in this sense is often referred to either dismissively or ironically, depending on the speaker's point of view, as the "ROC" (Rest of Canada).

According to the 2001 Census of Canada, the population of English Canada is 25,246,220 using the first meaning, 22,513,455 using the second, and at least 5,978,875 using the third (the number of Canadians of English origin is likely much higher than 5.9 million, but 6.7 million people only reported their ethnicity as "Canadian", without saying from where their ancestors came).

[edit] See also

• French Canada
• Bilingualism in Canada
• Anglo
• Anglosphere
• Anglo-Saxons
• Anglo-Catholicism
• Anglo-Irish
• Anglo-Norman
• Anglo-America
• English-American