| NOVASCOTIA | Province of Canada first settled by the French as Acadia |
| QUEBEC | Largest province of Canada by area, settled by the French in 1608 and ceded to Britain in 1763 (6) |
| MAIR | A founder of the Canada First nationalist movement |
| AREPARTANDPARCELOF | "Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament" (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz) |
| EDENHOPE | First settled by RC and G Hope from River Eden in Scotland, what is the administrative centre of the |
| IBIZA | Island in the Mediterranean, first settled by Phoenicians in 654 BC (5) |
| CITADEL | Cited by the French as their city fortress (7) |
| HOOPLA | Bear rejected by the French as fair game |
| MATAHARI | Exotic Dutch dancer, executed by the French as a German, 1917 (4,4) |
| TRESTLE | Rex takes part in challenge set by the French as a framework (7) |
| GENTLE | Man regarded by the French as kindly (6) |
| IGNOBLE | To play bingo is regarded by the French as vulgar (7) |
| BACON | Cured gammon-, ham- or pancetta-like flitch, known to the French as lard and imagined as the reddish tips of the egg yolk-yellow flowers of the birdsfoot trefoil (5) |
| SANJUAN | Capital first settled by Ponce de Leon |
| NORMANDY | Former province of northern France, settled by the Vikings in the 10th century (8) |
| BEERSHEBA | "From Dan to ____" is a biblical phrase indicating the area settled by the tribes of Israel |
| IONIA | Region of western Asia Minor once settled by the Greeks |
| AZUR | CA'te d'__; the French, as it were, for the French Riviera (4) |
| VINTO | N.B. site of Canada's first coal mine |
| GRAHAMTOWERS | Bank of Canada's first governor (1934-55) |
