Canadianist

plural Canadianists

1. One knowledgeable about Canada or Canadiana, or a specialist in Canadian studies.

   In many respects the historian and diplomat, Yakovlev, is the U.S.S.R.’s major Canadianist, and Gorbachev his most prominent pupil.

   1990, Lenard J. Cohen, “The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Transition: Trend and Implications for Canada”, in Maureen Appel Molot, Fen Osler Hampson, editors, Canada Among Nations 1989: The Challenge of Change, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, page 32

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   It should have a little lug-sail with about 32 ft. of sail area. It the sailor-man who is not an experienced Canadianist asks, “What will that do?” I can answer him. In 1891 I descended the Trent 100 miles by this bit of canvas.

   1906, The World's Work, volume 8, London: W.H. Page, page 202

   Smith was a Canadian specialist and he had fought hard for the post; but when he left the department he was not replaced by another Canadianist.

   1990, J.L. Granatstein, Robert Bothwell, Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, page 402