a. and sb. [f. CANADA1 + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or belonging to Canada or its people. B. sb. A native or inhabitant of Canada.

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1805.  L., in Naval Chron., XIV. 30. Canadian balsam … had been shipped.

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1825.  Scott, Lett., in Lockhart (1839), VII. 362. I can get the Canadian geese … from Mr. Murray.

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1868.  Mrs. Oliphant, Brownlows, I. 127. Somehow the Canadian had crept into his good graces too.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., IV. xiv. 415. The French Canadians of that day.

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