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French Canadian or Francophone Canadian (also Canadien in Canadian English or in French) generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France (Canada) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, French Canadians constitute the main French-speaking population of Canada.
During the mid-18th century, Canadian colonists born in French Canada expanded across North America and colonized various regions, cities, and towns. Today, the majority of French Canadians live across North America, including the United States and Canada. The province of Quebec has the largest population of French Canadian descent, although smaller communities of French Canadians exist throughout Canada and in the American region of New England, where between 1840 and 1930, roughly 900,000 French Canadians emigrated to the United States and New England, in particular.
Other terms for French Canadians that continue to reside in the province of Quebec, are Quebeckers or Québécois. French Canadians constitute the second largest ethnic group in Canada, after English Canadians and before Scottish Canadians and Irish Canadians.
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
Ferguson was born in the Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland to Robert and Janet Ferguson, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied". When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School. At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
Actors: Mark Chatel (producer), Micheline Marchildon (actress), Jean-Marc Pacelli (writer), Vincent Poirier (actor), Isabelle Major (editor), Olivier Nadon (actor), Olivier Nadon (actor), Isabelle Major (director), Stéphane Guertin (actor), Madeleine Meilleur (actress), Ronald Caza (actor), François Boileau (actor), Mehdi Hamdad (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Ron Haddrick (actor), Chris Haywood (actor), Tom Selleck (actor), Basil Poledouris (composer), Alan Rickman (actor), Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Roger Ward (actor), Simon Wincer (director), Don Bridges (actor), Michael Carman (actor), Laura San Giacomo (actress), Tony Bonner (actor), Jerome Ehlers (actor), William Zappa (actor), Christine Robson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.
Keywords: 19th-century, aborigine, action-hero, american, arms-dealer, assassin, australia, australian-aboriginal, australian-aborigine, australian-outbackActors: Tom Dugan (actor), Reginald Denny (actor), Hardie Albright (actor), Roland Drew (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), James Craven (actor), Walter Brooke (actor), James Bush (actor), James Cagney (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),
Plot: Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girl-friend of one of them. After listening to Churchill's famous "Blood, Sweat and tears" radio address he and some other pilots decide to join the RCAF - and his superior is always the pilot who's girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like to obey he gets troubles.
Keywords: aerial-photography, air-raid, airforce, airplane, airplane-accident, asian-stereotype, aviation, aviation-instructor, blackout, bush-pilot