Derivation of "pasiooks"?

[James Crippen]

"Pasiooks" means "French". But I can't figure out how it gets to CJ
from French. What French word or words does it derive from? Or is it
in fact from a native language?

My guess was that it somehow came from "voyageur", but I'm not
terribly confident of this. If it came from that I would have expected
"poyachee" or something.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Masi,
James

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