Canadianization

• Canadianisation

From Canadian +‎ -ization.

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, editor, 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.