Celine Dion: French-Canadian and L Subjects

celine dion: Noël also finds that Madonna and Celine Dion are distant cousins, though fails to mention that both are similarly related to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, according to Globe and Mail. Unlike many of Noël subjects, Madonna speaks some French, and sent her children to immersion school. Beyoncé French-Canadian heritage links her to the Acadian resistance hero Joseph Broussard , and to Marie-Josephte Corriveau , a convicted murderer whose corpse was famously displayed in an iron gibbet at Pointe-Lévy for several weeks in 1763. You know, I am French-Canadian too, she told a Montreal audience at a concert in 1987. In a 2013 census survey, about two million Americans claimed French-Canadian ancestry, which was less than two-thirds of 1 per cent of the population. Characteristically, Noël interprets this shout-out as the cry of a child of the diaspora asking for repatriation into the family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.