American vs. Canadian Ethnic Origin

[Farcebook]

I found this interesting. Taken from Wikipedia:





Most common ethnicity in each area.

[Murphy]

I am surprised that the Irish have not be represented on the Canadian map. Whilst it's true many of the emigrants were shipped down to the U.S from Canada after landing, I would have thought a couple stayed behind, not to mention the Protestant Irish who were welcomed in Canada.

[Allenson]

The Canadian map is quite interesting. The region showing Canadian ethnicity is of course Quebec/French Canada but also a fairly big block of eastern Ontario and also Atlantic Canada, the latter of which is a mixture of French, Scots, English & Irish by all accounts. That region is certainly the oldest part of Canada in terms of European colonization.

I have Scottish & Irish roots from Atlantic Canada.....

[Detfri]

Italians stay all in New York and Philadelphia. Indeed my relatives stay in New York, in particular in Staten Island (70% of them have Italian roots).
In Canada the Italians stay for the most in Toronto, all the Italians who have lived in Canada that I know stayed in Toronto. So I agree with the map.

[Aemma]

The Canadian map is quite interesting. The region showing Canadian ethnicity is of course Quebec/French Canada but also a fairly big block of eastern Ontario and also Atlantic Canada, the latter of which is a mixture of French, Scots, English & Irish by all accounts. That region is certainly the oldest part of Canada in terms of European colonization.

I have Scotish & Irish roots from Atlantic Canada.....

Yes, you should all read the map as Allenson presents, otherwise it won't make sense.

[Aemma]

Italians stay all in New York and Philadelphia. Indeed my relatives stay in New York, in particular in Staten Island (70% of them have Italian roots).
In Canada the Italians stay for the most in Toronto, all the Italians who have lived in Canada that I know stayed in Toronto. So I agree with the map.

Yes, quite true of Canada, RQ. Although we have a very nice Italian community in Ottawa too!

Little Italy is a neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, situated in Centretown West and the cultural centre of Ottawa's Italian community. Bounded by Albert Street to the north, Carling Avenue to the south, the O-Train tracks to the west, and approximately Bronson Avenue to the east, Little Italy intersects with Chinatown, whose business district centres on Somerset Street.

Little Italy was initially settled around 1900 by Italian immigrants. Following a fire at a small Murray Street chapel, the 1913 founding of St. Anthony of Padua Church at the corner of Booth Street and Gladstone Avenue cemented the immigrants' connections with the neighbourhood. In the years following World War II a second wave of Italian immigrants was joined by communities of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants in the area. In recent years with the integration of European immigrants the neighbourhood has found itself home to Asian immigrants, primarily from China and Vietnam.

In the 1960s a large section of the poorer neighbourhood was demolished, and replaced with the High School of Commerce, today the Adult High School.

Since 1974, each June the neighbourhood hosts the Italian Week festival, Ottawa's celebration of Italian culture.

Two area streets have been given commemorative Italian street names. Gladstone Avenue is also called Via Marconi, and Preston Street is called Corso Italia.

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It has the best restaurants.

[MagnaLaurentia]

The canadian map suck... for the eastern canada! Quebec, Ontario and the atlantics provinces are all red. This is not really representative.

Quebec: 70-80% French Canadian (Québécois) pure laine

North-East Ontario: French Canadian

North New-Brunswick: French Canadian (Acadiens)
South New-Brunswick: British/Irish Canadian

New-Brunswick is 193,470 French (26.9%); 165,235 English (23.0%); 135,835 Irish (18.9%); 127,635 Scottish (17.7%); 27,490 German (3.8%); 26,220 Acadians (3.6%); 23,815 "North American Indian" (First Nations) (3.3%); 13,355 Dutch (Netherlands) (1.9%); and 7,620 Welsh (1.1%).

Nova Scotia is Scottish (29.3%), followed by English (28.1%), Irish (19.9%), French (16.7%), German (10.0%), Dutch (3.9%), First Nations (3.2%), Welsh (1.4%), Italian (1.3%), and Acadian (1.2%).

Newfoundland and Labrador is English (39.4%), followed by Irish (19.7%), Scottish (6.0%), French (5.5%), and First Nations (3.2%).

[MagnaLaurentia]

Yes, quite true of Canada, RQ. Although we have a very nice Italian community in Ottawa too!



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It has the best restaurants.

The italian community is more bigger in Montreal!

Oh... and you now what? my mother is italian! haha

[Grumpy Cat]

Oh wait... what's this? Anglos complain about French-Canadians not feeling "Canadian" enough? But wait a minute... aren't all those places that are red have large French-speaking populations?

And oh... do I see a lot of places where they chose ENGLISH over Canadian?

[Óttar]

Canadian and American as ethnicities on here.

What do they do for mixes?