Canadianization

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From Canadian +‎ -ization.

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Canadianization (countable and uncountable, plural Canadianizations)

  1. The process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.
    • 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:
      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, 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:
      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.
    • 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:
      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.

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