More on early 'Canuck' (repost from ADS-L)

[David Robertson]

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Subject:      Shtik (1960); Canuck (1843)
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CANUCK
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I've been thinking of the GLOBE AND MAIL lately, that great Canadian=20
newspaper, and harking back to my work on "Canuck." I don't know if I
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from Paper of Record.
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28 April 1843, MONTREAL TRANSCRIPT, pg. 2, col. 5:
NOT AT ALL PERSONAL.--The Editor of the _Statesman_ calls the Editor of
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_Chronicle & Gazette_ "A useless, good-for-nothing, leaden haeded mock
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loafer, who is 1-2 Yankee, 2-8th Scotch, 1-18th Canuck, 1-32nd English,
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the other part of the fraction, which it takes to make up the whole,
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mongrel;"...--_British Whig_.=20

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