Pure laine

The French term pure laine, literally meaning pure wool (and often translated as true blue or dyed-in-the-wool), refers to those whose ancestry is exclusively French-Canadian. Another similar term is de souche (of the base of the tree, or root, old stock as in "Old Stock Canadians").

Pure laine

The French term pure laine, literally meaning pure wool (and often translated as true blue or dyed-in-the-wool), refers to those whose ancestry is exclusively French-Canadian. Another similar term is de souche (of the base of the tree, or root, old stock as in "Old Stock Canadians").