I know the native St. Lawrence Iroquois were called the Canadians by the French as early as Cartier's time, and the word Canada was a synecdoche for New France which once stretched as far as Alberta and the Gulf of Mexico, but did anyone living in any of the colonial "Canadas" identify themselves as "Canadians", or just French/English people colonising a foreign land? I guess my question is similar to asking whether people in New France specified that they were from New France rather than just being French, the way someone might specify that they're Texan rather than just American. In other words, did they proudly call the New World their home, or was it more like an outpost until dominion?