Canadianization

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noun

The process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nounCanadianization (countable and uncountable, plural Canadianizations)

plural Canadianizations · alternative Canadianisation

  1. countableuncountableThe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.

    The Canadianization of their children may have had certain negative effects for immigrant family relations, but it worked well in the interests of assimilation and nation building.

    2006, Cynthia Comacchio, The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950, Wilfred Laurier University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 57
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    While a few works in this second category have analyzed the strategies of churches in promoting the Canadianization of first-generation immigrants, like most institutional studies they provide the view from the head office.

    2006, Roberto Perin, “The Churches and Immigrant Integration in Toronto, 1947-65”, in Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert, editors, Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 274

    A multi-ethnic and a multi-cultural city which once had distinct ethnic neighborhoods but with "Canadianization" of younger population and their desire to be suburbanites, the degree of segregation has relatively decreased.

    2008, R. C. Tiwari, “Poverty in Winnipeg: A Study in Urban – Social Geography”, in George Pomeroy, editor, Global Perspectives on Urbanization, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 213

Origin

Translations

Dutch Canadianisatie
  • Canadianisatiethe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian
Esperanto kanadigo
  • kanadigothe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian
French canadianisation
  • canadianisationthe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian
German Kanadisierung
  • Kanadisierungthe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian
Italian canadizzazione
  • canadizzazionethe process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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