French New Zealanders

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

French New Zealanders are New Zealanders who are of French ancestry or a French-born person who resides in New Zealand.

The French were amongst the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island.

Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first known Frenchman to have visited New Zealand, in 1769, and by the 1830s, French whalers were operating off the Banks Peninsula.

In 1835, Jean-Baptiste Pompallier was the first bishop of any denomination in New Zealand.

Religion[]

Source: 2013 Census^[2]

some notable people:

• Louis Servant ( 1807-1860 ): a chief priest of Catholic Church

• mrs jean Anderson: associate professor of French, Victoria university of wellington

See also[]

• Caldoche
• Canadian New Zealanders
• Demographics of New Zealand
• European New Zealanders
• Europeans in Oceania
• History of New Zealand
• Immigration to New Zealand
• Pākehā

References[]

External links[]

• Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: French

This France-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This New Zealand–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This article related to an ethnic group in Oceania is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t