On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Do the Quebecois use the name "Habs" for the team, or is this
> name an Anglicism rejected by Les Canadiens?
>
> I appreciate the insights of Maragret and Mieke, but would like to know
> about attitudes and actual practice in French Canada.
Which reminds me of something else I was wondering (and about
which the museum exhibit was unclear): The exhibit mentioned that the
Canadiens were started because someone or other (sorry, hockey fans, I'm
fuzzy on just exactly who) wanted to see a Francophone team. Does this
mean that Francophones were not, um, welcome on the Anglophone teams? If
so, how unwelcome _were_ they? Were they prohibited outright from
belonging to Anglophone teams, or was it just "not done"? (Is that a
distinction without a difference?)
Marcy
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