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Originally Posted by someone123
Atlantic Canada (and Canada in general) has distinctions amongst old English-speaking groups.
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Now you've gotten me very curious about my gf's ancestry. (There's actually a nonzero chance that's my future kids' ancestry we're talking about...)
Chances are that at least some were Loyalists.
It also branches immediately in two because she's 50% English and 50% Irish. (FWIW, in modern Quebec she's basically got a pure ethnically 100% Anglo background but I know better than that.) I'm wondering if, statistically, Irish in modern North America are more likely to come from somewhere different than English. At first sight it's almost certain it's the case.
More specifically, I know that tons of Irish landed in Quebec in the late 1840s at the time of the potato famine, and in the following generations they ended up scattering to other areas of the province (preferably areas with an already existing Anglo element). So that's a likely source of ancestors (i.e. directly from Ireland ~165 years ago).
On the other hand, the English branch could be loyalists who followed the same path as the ones who came to the Eastern Townships of Quebec and NB.
But maybe they're not, and come straight from the post-1760 injection of English into Quebec. I actually think that's more likely. If I dug a tiny bit into the history of Anglo Gaspé I could probably quickly get answers that are statistically likely to be the correct ones for any given Anglo from there.
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