You beat me by 6 years. New France and all the fille du Roi. I'm descended from (Abraham of the Plains of Abraham), and another ancestor helped build the first church and hospital in Montreal.
Maybe we are related, my ancestor (from France) helped build Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal. His daughter is the first girl baptised in that church (1645).
Supper cool. We have ours back to about 1000 on one side and 1400 ish on the other. If I murdered about a billion people I might be next in line for the throne. Lol
LOL. I am related to five French kings, Queen Anne, and William the Conqueror. And not once have I been invited to a royal wedding or coronation. I’m pissed.
You must be in NFLD or Nova Scotia! I had my DNA done and almost all my DNA was Scotland, UK and Ireland but 25% of my DNA was East Europe Jewish. Apparently my grandmother had an affair with a Jewish man that produced my father. My father died before I found out this information, not sure how he would have taken it.
Newfoundlander here. My mother's family were Munn's from Scotland who founded the town of Harbour Grace. They were shipbuilders and merchants, owned a newspaper, dabbled in politics. They came in the early 1700's. A lot of scots immigrated to NL around that time. Probably not as many as from Ireland, but they were well established on the island nonetheless.
The Scottish tradition is still very vibrant in Nova Scotia, especially in Cape Breton! From the tartan to the dance and everything else in between we celebrate it all.
Filipinos are just like many other immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, France, etc. No need to feel grateful. It’s a right to be in Canada. It’s good that you’re thankful but I don’t remember a British immigrant being grateful to be here.
On my Mom's side I'm Cree and Métis (Cree grandmother, Métis grandfather). So the only immigrant heritiage on that side is the French and Scottish part of the Métis quarter.
On my dad's side it's Ireland as both his parents immigrated from there.
My father is Lebanese-born but immigrated in 1978 and my mothers family has been here long enough that she doesn’t really know where they originally came from, but certainly from the UK based on her maiden name.
We’re all Canadian though and we only identify as such.
Ancestors came from Scotland, Jacobite exiles. First thing they did when they landed in Nova Scotia was attack the first band of Mi’kmaq they saw.
Ours is the history.
My first paternal ancestor arrived from France in the 1600s and settled around Québec City. My maternal great-grandparents emigrated from France in the early 1900s and settled in the Prairies.
Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and Germany (mom's side to Quebec/Eastern Ontario and Southern Ontario to BC and dad's side to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to Manitoba (for the Newfie parts) to BC
I didn’t emigrate from anywhere but my family about 200-300 years ago came from Scotland (father’s side) and Brittany, France (great great grandmother’s side) and formed a Métis family once in Canada and eventually settling in Saskatchewan.
England BUT that's because my dad was German. As a released Prisoner of War, he met my British mum, and I resulted. England wasn't the best place for a German right after a war. The problem is that the part of Germany he was from was taken over by the Soviets, so he would have had a very short and nasty life as a slave if he had gone back home. So they decided Canada was a good alternative to move, and after a few struggles, had a pretty good life here in Canada.
Twice immigrants.
My parents immigrated from Pakistan originally. I immigrated from MK, England to Canada. Ironically, my grandmum had a British passport pre-partition she held on to.
Unfortunately, only Ugandans will understand the depth of the first statement.
My paternal great-great-grandfather (direct descendant line, same last name as me) came to Canada from Ireland as a young man in 1861. My mother's ancestors came from southeast England, sometime in the 1830s.
Great, Great Grandfather signed up for the British (Scotland) military tasks in Hamilton, Ont. He was still young enough to be needed in WW1 when it happened. His 17 year old son managed to become old enough to join as well. That guy survived both world wars and still didn’t make it out of National Steel Car. Safety is no joke.
My parents both were born in Ontario(same small town) they came to visit BC in the late 70s and decided to move right out.
Their parents are a little harder to figure out.
Dad's dad was born in Canada too, married a Dutch woman's after ww2, and moved her over here.
Mom's side is British/Scottish I think... Wilder for my mom's moms and Rogers for my mom's dad.
That's about all the knowledge of my lineage I have.
I'm in Nova Scotia.
I moved from Brazil, my great great parents came from different parts of Europe, mostly Italy, Portugal, Germany and even some Arab peninsula countries, some native Brazilian in there too.
Mostly Russian (few other random cultures mixed in). I'm Canadian (west coast) and a lot of Russians came to the area a long, ***long*** time ago. Like I know that I'm the 4th generation in my family to have Russian ancestry but born in Canada.
My mum's family came from Scotland, but my dad's family was from two different countries. My grandmother was English from London England, and my grandfather was Sami from Boden Sweden. My dad was a child of immigrants parents but my mum's family went to the East Coast where those kinds of cultures thrive, so I'm three generations removed from my Scottish family, but it's not like you can tell.
East, West and South.
This is a big question. My immigrant genealogy covers the majority of three continents at this point.
They immigrated to Canada and the US at various points over the past 350 years and everyone intermarried.
When I was in school, our teacher would ask us our ethnicity, and kids would respond "I'm 1/128th this and 1/256th that." It was a stupid exercise.
France in the 1600's,
Scotland and Wales near the end of the first world war.
One of my Great grandmothers was a WW1 War Bride.
Imagine living your whole life in Wales, and then marrying a Canadian soldier, and moving to the middle of no-where Quebec.
both sides of my parents from Mexico, before that Spain on my dad’s side of the family. I’m not so sure on my mother’s side but I think we have a good amount of Indigenous given our genetic features.
From Germany to Russia in the mid-late 1700s, then from Russia to Canada about when the soviets took over. Both sides of my family, with similar dates.
The closest ancestor born elsewhere is my grandfather from Scotland back in the early 20th century. The rest came from mainly Britain with some from Germany and France mixed in generations before.
Ireland and England from my dad’s side, Ireland, American loyalists and Denmark on my mom’s side. I just found out I’m like 6 time descendant of the Mayflower 😆.
My earliest ancestors came from France to Quebec in the 1600’s. The most recent line came from Polish region of Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century (shortly before WWI).
Also two separate lines from Ireland in the 1800’s, and one from England.
France 410 years ago
Me too. Wonder if we're related
Me too. Also came from France in 1680.
You beat me by 6 years. New France and all the fille du Roi. I'm descended from (Abraham of the Plains of Abraham), and another ancestor helped build the first church and hospital in Montreal.
Maybe we are related, my ancestor (from France) helped build Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal. His daughter is the first girl baptised in that church (1645).
What is her name?
>Abraham of the Plains of Abraham [Abraham Martin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Martin) for the curious.
I can trace back to Jacques Brouilet from France, born 1610. So France and also Ukraine
Wow. Do you have the family history?
Yes. My grandmother was a genealogy researcher.
Supper cool. We have ours back to about 1000 on one side and 1400 ish on the other. If I murdered about a billion people I might be next in line for the throne. Lol
Better get started
LOL. I am related to five French kings, Queen Anne, and William the Conqueror. And not once have I been invited to a royal wedding or coronation. I’m pissed.
Scotland, Scotland, Scotland — everyone came from Scotland
You must be in NFLD or Nova Scotia! I had my DNA done and almost all my DNA was Scotland, UK and Ireland but 25% of my DNA was East Europe Jewish. Apparently my grandmother had an affair with a Jewish man that produced my father. My father died before I found out this information, not sure how he would have taken it.
Lol, my mum is a Bluenoser and her Scottish culture never went away.
Once a maritimer always a maritimer 😆😆👏👏
Yup lol. Me acting like I don't care while being covered in nautical tattoos and giving my kids Gaelic names.
I'm in Nova Scotia - my DNA came back 99% Scottish, 1% Irish lol
Nova Scotia — Cape Breton specifically. NFLD had very little immigration from Scotland— primarily Irish and English and interestingly, Portuguese.
Newfoundlander here. My mother's family were Munn's from Scotland who founded the town of Harbour Grace. They were shipbuilders and merchants, owned a newspaper, dabbled in politics. They came in the early 1700's. A lot of scots immigrated to NL around that time. Probably not as many as from Ireland, but they were well established on the island nonetheless.
Lots of Scotland in nl. Just not as much as England and Ireland.
My Scottish family settled in Eastern Ontario (glengarry county) but I married a Nova Scotian and moved to NS.
The Scottish tradition is still very vibrant in Nova Scotia, especially in Cape Breton! From the tartan to the dance and everything else in between we celebrate it all.
Mostly the same except a few came from England, Germany, Ireland and France. But yeah, mainly Scotland.
My family was kicked out of Scotland for stealing goats
We were kicked out cuz we were Catholics marrying Protestants. Magine
They were the scapegoats, no doubt.
England. France. Scotland. Ireland. No wonder I hate myself some days, all of my lineages hate another part of my lineages.
I'm not sure that's true, I'd say three of those places get along and all hate the other place.
Just think of the Auld Alliance.
My parents immigrated from Wexford, Ireland.
As we say in Ireland, your a Wexican!
Ireland, France, native
My grandparents came from Czechoslovakia when they were still 1 country.
Same with my grandpa. Emigrated here in 1914. His dad was Czech and his mom was Roma.
Philippines. Thank you for taking us in
Filipinos are just like many other immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, France, etc. No need to feel grateful. It’s a right to be in Canada. It’s good that you’re thankful but I don’t remember a British immigrant being grateful to be here.
Filipino nurses are everywhere the health care sector would collapse without them even in the UK and Australia.
We are very happy to have you!
Ukraine and Germany
Sweden! Like …. 140 years ago.
Mine too but 120 years ago
Me too
Hello fellow Swede!
On my Mom's side I'm Cree and Métis (Cree grandmother, Métis grandfather). So the only immigrant heritiage on that side is the French and Scottish part of the Métis quarter. On my dad's side it's Ireland as both his parents immigrated from there.
My moms side France mid 1600s, my dad's side England and Ireland in 1834, and England 1913.
That's similar to me!
they're all from scotland
My mom came from China. My dad's parents came from China. My dad and I were born in Canada.
Cantonese/ toisan?
I'm not really sure. My dad's parents kind of came from villages and my mom came from the city.
Came from the Netherlands in 1981
My family came in 1953, on a boat to Pier 21 in Halifax.
Mother and Grandfather were British, Grandmother Acadian with a Mikmaq ancestry from what I was always told, Fathers side were all Acadian.
West Africa in the 90s
Hong Kong. I was born there because my family went back for business. I moved here myself because I wanted to get away from my family.
Woot! Another Hong Kong 🇭🇰 family. I was born here in Canada, but my family is from there.
UK
Scotland on my Mom’s side, Ireland on my Dad’s.
Same here. I have a Scottish mom (if you have one you know what that means) and a very witty Dad.
Ukraine/Poland mid 1800s
Hmm, just searched the comments and I'll be the first to say Guernsey! Half my family came from there, rest is German.
Channel Islands represent!
Germany, two years ago!
Parents were refugees from Laos and thailand and met in canada
UK and Ireland
Interesting, are you descendants of Ulster-Scots?
from the west of England to the west coast of BC
Dad's side: Guangdong 1895/1950, Mum's side: Ireland 1960s
My father is Lebanese-born but immigrated in 1978 and my mothers family has been here long enough that she doesn’t really know where they originally came from, but certainly from the UK based on her maiden name. We’re all Canadian though and we only identify as such.
Hungary.
Ukraine and Poland
Ancestors came from Scotland, Jacobite exiles. First thing they did when they landed in Nova Scotia was attack the first band of Mi’kmaq they saw. Ours is the history.
English bastards stole our land and kicked us to Ireland for the same reason.
Pakistan. I identify as Canadian but moved here around 2011 😊✨ This is my true home now and I would never move back 🙂↔️
Bavaria, in Germany.
Spain
I am Indigenous so they were always here
Canada. Natives represent 👊
My first paternal ancestor arrived from France in the 1600s and settled around Québec City. My maternal great-grandparents emigrated from France in the early 1900s and settled in the Prairies.
I have to go back 4-6 generations for a non-Canadian family member, but once I do so it’s a mix of North and South German, English, Irish, and Swedish
From France in the 1600s
France - Scotland - Haiti
Vietnam, any Nguyen here?
Winner winner chicken dinner
Please tell me how to pronounce your last name so I can stop embarrassing myself!
Was born in Saudi Arabia, but my family is of Pakistani origin.
Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and Germany (mom's side to Quebec/Eastern Ontario and Southern Ontario to BC and dad's side to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to Manitoba (for the Newfie parts) to BC
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*me mum
France :)
Ukraine and Northern Ireland.
Saudi Arabia
Kuch bolunga toh vivad ho jayega
India, but we lived in Dubai. Stayed in India for 2 months before emigrating.
India and Scotland
England, Wales and Scotland.
Scotland, Ireland, England.
Singapore. Fell in love with a Canadian and moved here for him. My family is still in Singapore.
Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine)
Parents from Pakistan
Does it count as immigration if you're a refugee? I was born in a refugee camp in Asia.
50% french 25% scottish 25% spanish
Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Ireland 🇮🇪
I didn’t emigrate from anywhere but my family about 200-300 years ago came from Scotland (father’s side) and Brittany, France (great great grandmother’s side) and formed a Métis family once in Canada and eventually settling in Saskatchewan.
Ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland, mid-1800s, both groups escaping either famine or religious/political persecution
Both of my parents were Scottish 🏴 but met and married in Toronto 🇨🇦
Directly from the UK.
England BUT that's because my dad was German. As a released Prisoner of War, he met my British mum, and I resulted. England wasn't the best place for a German right after a war. The problem is that the part of Germany he was from was taken over by the Soviets, so he would have had a very short and nasty life as a slave if he had gone back home. So they decided Canada was a good alternative to move, and after a few struggles, had a pretty good life here in Canada.
One Grandparent is from Jamaica in the 60’s and the rest of family came from the USA in the late 1880’s.
Croatia
Scotland, England and USA (loyalists).
Ireland. During the famine
Germany. I'm the first generation in my family to be born in Canada.
Twice immigrants. My parents immigrated from Pakistan originally. I immigrated from MK, England to Canada. Ironically, my grandmum had a British passport pre-partition she held on to. Unfortunately, only Ugandans will understand the depth of the first statement.
Ireland, Scotland, England, France ranging from 1600 to 1900.
My paternal great-great-grandfather (direct descendant line, same last name as me) came to Canada from Ireland as a young man in 1861. My mother's ancestors came from southeast England, sometime in the 1830s.
Soviet Union
Trinidad and Tobago
India and Germany. Getting downvoted for saying India? Gotta love this racist country of mine.
Stay strong. I feel you.
Philippines 🇵🇭
Netherlands
My step dad was from there. Awesome guy. Hardest worker ever. Made my Mom very happy.
Nigeria 🇳🇬
Igbo ? There are a lot in Canada and in the US ! I love nigerian food
Yes, Igbo 😆 drop by whenever in toronto for some Igbo food treat.
Parents are from Punjab, India. I was born in BC.
France. 350 years ago. I have approximately 10k french ancestors that lived in Canada.
My great grandparents immigrated from Ireland and England in the early 1900's.
Ireland Scotland and the USA (before that Scotland and Norway)
Great, Great Grandfather signed up for the British (Scotland) military tasks in Hamilton, Ont. He was still young enough to be needed in WW1 when it happened. His 17 year old son managed to become old enough to join as well. That guy survived both world wars and still didn’t make it out of National Steel Car. Safety is no joke.
Dad's dad was from Ukraine (dad's mum from Canada), mum was born in England (and is still a British Subject).
UK and Ukraine.
Devon UK
England, Wales, Malta
Hungary, Scotland, Italy
England
Parents were both born in Greece.
Father's side: France in 16xx Mother's side: Ontario
Aberdeen, Scotland
A British jail cell.....
Half German - Half Shepherd lol
Paternal side: Ireland and Norway/Sweden Maternal: England
UK
Austria, and Germany to the German farming settlements on the Volga River, Russia area and then to Canada
Scotland, my parents are first generation, neighbours used to ask what language my parents spoke 🤣🤣🤣
Westphalia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, East Bank Ukraine
Macedonia
Scotland, Ireland, France on one side. The Netherlands on the other.
Ireland, landed in 1763
Poland 🇵🇱
Oddly low number of Polaks in this thread
We need to lay low so other polacks don't find us
Russian
My parents both were born in Ontario(same small town) they came to visit BC in the late 70s and decided to move right out. Their parents are a little harder to figure out. Dad's dad was born in Canada too, married a Dutch woman's after ww2, and moved her over here. Mom's side is British/Scottish I think... Wilder for my mom's moms and Rogers for my mom's dad. That's about all the knowledge of my lineage I have.
My mum is English and my dad is from Grenada
Germany and England. Alarmingly white. lol.
We immigrated to Canada from Whitehaven Cumbria in England. Just the immediate family; the rest are still in the UK.
I'm in Nova Scotia. I moved from Brazil, my great great parents came from different parts of Europe, mostly Italy, Portugal, Germany and even some Arab peninsula countries, some native Brazilian in there too.
England. I was born a coalminers daughter and we came to Canada for a better life. It's been pretty great.
I might not look it, but England.
Mostly Russian (few other random cultures mixed in). I'm Canadian (west coast) and a lot of Russians came to the area a long, ***long*** time ago. Like I know that I'm the 4th generation in my family to have Russian ancestry but born in Canada.
Belarus
Eastern Europe while it was still communist lol, and probably like wales or Ireland in the 1800s on the other side.
New Zealand
India
My ancestors didn’t immigrate they colonized; it was in the 18th century.
Where the first human bone was found
My mum's family came from Scotland, but my dad's family was from two different countries. My grandmother was English from London England, and my grandfather was Sami from Boden Sweden. My dad was a child of immigrants parents but my mum's family went to the East Coast where those kinds of cultures thrive, so I'm three generations removed from my Scottish family, but it's not like you can tell.
Ukraine. They all came from Ukraine.
India 2011
India. But Canada is home now 🫠
East, West and South. This is a big question. My immigrant genealogy covers the majority of three continents at this point. They immigrated to Canada and the US at various points over the past 350 years and everyone intermarried. When I was in school, our teacher would ask us our ethnicity, and kids would respond "I'm 1/128th this and 1/256th that." It was a stupid exercise.
UK, Ireland and Europe.
Italy, UK, and France.
France in the 1600's, Scotland and Wales near the end of the first world war. One of my Great grandmothers was a WW1 War Bride. Imagine living your whole life in Wales, and then marrying a Canadian soldier, and moving to the middle of no-where Quebec.
Scotland, Germany, England. All around the mid-late 1700s
UK and Ireland
both sides of my parents from Mexico, before that Spain on my dad’s side of the family. I’m not so sure on my mother’s side but I think we have a good amount of Indigenous given our genetic features.
My parents and older siblings moved here (GTA) from Sweden in the 70s. I was the first one to be born here in Canada.
From Germany to Russia in the mid-late 1700s, then from Russia to Canada about when the soviets took over. Both sides of my family, with similar dates.
The closest ancestor born elsewhere is my grandfather from Scotland back in the early 20th century. The rest came from mainly Britain with some from Germany and France mixed in generations before.
75% Irish, 20% Scottish, 2% Welsh, 2% Norse, then rounding errors.
Ireland in the 1880s on my mom’s side and Poland in the early 1940s on my dad’s side.
Europe, early 1900s
England and Ireland on my mom’s side, Poland on my dad’s side
Sweden, family roots in Finland.
Scotland
Ireland and England from my dad’s side, Ireland, American loyalists and Denmark on my mom’s side. I just found out I’m like 6 time descendant of the Mayflower 😆.
Mom’s side from Belfast by way of Montego Bay in 1948. My dad’s side from Bordeaux in 1650’s.
Father and mother came from Sweden
UK & Italy
My earliest ancestors came from France to Quebec in the 1600’s. The most recent line came from Polish region of Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century (shortly before WWI). Also two separate lines from Ireland in the 1800’s, and one from England.