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# English Canadian s, a term usually meaning English-speaking or Anglophone Canadians, the official language majority in the country except New-Brunswick and Quebec as well. This usage is employed when comparing English- and French-language literature, media, or art. # The Canadian Provinces which are majority Anglophone . Today, this includes all of them other than Quebec . This usage is usually employed in the context of geopolitical discussions involving Quebec. Among supporters of the two-nations theory, English-Canada is one of those two nations, the other being French Canada or Quebec. English-Canada in this sense is often referred to as the "ROC" (Rest of Canada). # ''English Canadian'', in some historical contexts, is used to designate English Canadians, Canadians who have origins in England (in contrast to Scottish-Canadians , Irish-Canadians etc.). # 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 the nearly 6 million who reported as much, 6.7 million people reported their sole ethnicity as "Canadian", without further specification, though most likely English, French, Scottish, Irish, etc. or an admixture of multiple ethnicities which includes one or more of these). SEE ALSO
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