WClaude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
WThe ceinture fléchée [sɛ̃tyʁ fleʃe] is a type of colourful sash, a traditional piece of French-Canadian clothing linked to at least the 17th century. The Métis also adopted and made ceintures fléchées and use them as part of their national costume. French-Canadian and Métis communities share the sash as an important part of their distinct cultural heritages, their cultural distinctions, their nationalities, their national costumes, their histories and their resistance. While the traditional view is that the ceinture fléchée is a French-Canadian invention, other origins have been suggested as well. According to Dorothy K. Burnham who prepared an exhibit on textiles at the National Gallery of Canada in 1981, and published an accompanying catalogue raisonné, this type of finger weaving was learned by residents of New France from Indigenous peoples. It is believed that French settlers-habitants were influenced and inspired by "Wampum Belts" and learned specific finger-weaving patterns from Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands. With European wool-materials, the syncretism and unification of French and Indigenous finger-weaving techniques resulted in the making of Arrowed Sashes. L'Assomption Sash is the oldest known sash design; produced by French habitants or artisans in Québec.
WThe Foreign Protestants were a group of French Lutheran and German Protestant immigrants to Nova Scotia. They largely settled in Halifax at Gottingen Street and Dutch Village Road as well as Lunenburg.
WFrench Canadian music is music derived from that brought by the early French settlers to what is now Quebec and other areas throughout Canada, or any music performed by the French Canadian people. Since the arrival of French music in Canada, there has been much intermixing with the Celtic music of Anglo-Canada.
WHabitants were French settlers and the inhabitants of French origin who farmed the land along the two shores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf in what is the present-day Province of Quebec in Canada. The term was used by the inhabitants themselves and the other classes of French Canadian society from the 17th century up until the early 20th century when the usage of the word declined in favour of the more modern agriculteur (farmer) or producteur agricole.
WThe Musée de l'Amérique francophone is situated in Old Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Its mission is for the development and promotion of French culture in North America, and houses a number exhibits that showcases the history of French America. The museum collection has been managed by the Musée de la civilisation since 1995.
WPichenotte (peash'-nut) is a Canadian French word meaning 'flick', which is derived from the European French word pichenette (peash'-net), also meaning 'flick'. In Canadian French, pichenotte refers to several disk-flicking games, which may also be played with small cue sticks, including such games as crokinole, carrom, and pitchnut. These folk games are in the public domain, and are not subject to copyright like a commercial board game. They are not patented games, however, the name Pichenotte is a registered trademark in the United States. "Crokinole is a popular Canadian board game ....also commonly called pichenotte." "The Carrom game... throughout Quebec is known as 'pichenotte'" The German Knips Brat community states "pichenotte is another name for crokinole" The Canadian game board collection at the Quebec Museum of Civilisation in Quebec City includes both the square carrom-type board and the round crokinole-type game Crokinole is also called 'pichenotte' throughout much of North America such as Tavistock, Ontario, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Albuquerque, New Mexico.