Canard

Canard is French for duck, a type of aquatic bird. In English and in French a canard may mean an unfounded rumor or story.

Canard may refer to:

Places

• Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada, a group of hamlets and villages
• Canard River, a river in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Rivière-aux-Canards (River of the ducks), a village in New France (now Canada) from 1670 until 1755

Persons

• Marius Canard (1888–1982), French Orientalist and historian
• Nicolas-François Canard (c. 1750 – 1833), French mathematician and economist

Aviation

• Canard (aeronautics), either a small wing mounted in front of an aircraft's main wings, or an aircraft so configured
• Aviafiber Canard 2FL, a single seat recreational aircraft of canard design
• Blériot V canard, an early French aircraft built by Louis Blériot in 1907, and one of the first monoplanes
• Fabre Hydravion or Le Canard, a French experimental floatplane which first flew in 1910
• Voisin Canard, aircraft developed by the Voisin brothers

Other

• Antisemitic canard, a false story inciting antisemitism
• Canard Pars, fictional character from the Japanese science fiction manga series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
• Canard PC, a French magazine devoted to computer gaming
• Le Canard enchaîné ("The Chained Duck"), French satirical newspaper

See also

• Canardo (disambiguation)
• Kenard, a character in the television series The Wire