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Old Posted Aug 27, 2020, 6:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Docere View Post
Irish ancestry is undercounted in Newfoundland. The vast majority of Catholics in Newfoundland - about a third of the population and over 40% in St. John's - are of Irish ancestry.

St. John's Newfoundland I suspect is more Irish than Saint John New Brunswick.
That may be so but without a source and a similar digging beneath the surface for Saint John, it's hard to take much away from what you wrote. All one can conclude is that they're both heavily Irish.
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