A French Canadian.
1855. [We gave] our donkey into the keeping of a lively Canuck.—Knickerbocker Mag., xlv. 341 (April).
1857. My grandfather … got fifty [old French crowns] at once from a Kanuck in trading.—Id., xlix. 40 (Jan.).
1884. A “Kanuck,” or French Canadian, at the oar or “cordelle,” the rope used to haul a boat up-stream.—T. W. Higginson, The Great Western March, Harper’s Mag., lxix. p. 125 (June) (N.E.D.)
