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Let Me Google It For You — Why Do They Speak French In Canada?

It’s all because of a bored European dude in the 16th century

Tommy Ueland
3 min readJul 11, 2020
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The concept: I will search the world wide web, aka Google, for the most searched topics. I will then translate all the findings into a short, down to the bone, no bullshit article about the topic at hand. I will not only stop at the first page, but I will go as far as the eight (maybe even the twelfth!) page on google to give you all you need. I will then make sure to edit away all the fluff and spice it up a little. Then you can go and impress friends, family, and sweethearts with your newly acquired awesome knowledge. Just remember where you read it, right here at Let Me Google It For You.

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Tl;Dr: Because of a French dude that was bad at navigating in 1543.

Canada as we know it

I will not start at the start, some 30 000 years ago when the first people lived there, but I will skip forward to the renaissances and to a bored European dude called Jacques Cartier. Yes, you‘re right, that’s probably the Frenches name in the world. Jacques was the typical adrenaline junkie of the time…

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Tommy Ueland
Tommy Ueland

Written by Tommy Ueland

Father, writer, aspiring blogger, connoisseur of everyday joy and professional procrastinator.

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