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To: LoneClone who wrote (45858)	7/28/2007 12:53:55 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78426

Canada never had the opportunity of population mass, or trade that the US had. It was a very corrupt and strictly controlled government with most immigration in early years restricted to British Isles. Irish tended to favour Lower Canada, as they were a bit anti-English. Strange to relate that far after the Boyne. They even spoke Irish back then. Much Quebecois music bear their influence. Perhaps 25% of the last names in Quebec are Irish. Wolfe's army which was largely Irish settled there, overwhelming the local population in numbers. So blood wise I would estimate the Quebecer at less than 30% pure french. What most do not realize is that the race has very similar celtic roots so they are not that distinguishable. The Jesuits enforced French, but many of the two groups could speak a similar language, Bretagne which was Cornish and Irish are different branches of Celtic. Many of the first fr. under the Louis came from Bretagne, the seafaring celtic stronghold of the nation. You will get a lot of argument from Quebecers but the first fr. immigrants to Quebec, about 5,000 of them, were Flemish Huegenots who spoke German and French and were protestant. Only a concerted effort by Louis XIII prevented them from being the mainstay of Canada in those days. When this rather large minority was run out of France with some of my ancestors in the late 1500's , they became the business class of merchants who ran Belgium and were the founders of its mining and diamonds industry 300 years later. EC<:-}