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British Columbia is still a fairly young part of the country. I've heard the oldest people there can trace their ancestry back 2 or 3 generations until they trace it outside the country. The diversity in the white population seems very thin.
Not only the name itself, but the feel of British Columbia, with the exception of the non-white population there feels very WASPy. I mean rich WASPy. Blue blood, old money, country club, pink shirt, chinos wearing, WASPyness. Think old school New England. I mean REALLY WASPy. Every white person I have met from BC has looked like someone out of Downton Abbey or something. I find it really weird as they're still Canadian.
A lot of us "wasp" folk from BC are of central/eastern European descent. Our families came out on railroads since they were less desirable for central Canada immigration. I'm from the Fraser valley and German/Slavic heritage was very common.
A lot of us "wasp" folk from BC are of central/eastern European descent. Our families came out on railroads since they were less desirable for central Canada immigration. I'm from the Fraser valley and German/Slavic heritage was very common.
I guess there are certain exceptions the closer you get to Alberta but coastal BC is still fairly WASPy isn't it? Vancouver and Vancouver Island are for sure, as far as the white population there goes anyway.
Vancouver Island is, but Vancouver has a.fairly diverse white population. Your definition is very narrow though. Newfoundland is definitely the most white Anglo Saxon protestant province, it's just they have very old roots there and are far from blue blood for the most part.
New Brunswick has the oldest residents in canada other than the natives. I am from NB. The whites there go back as far as 1634 (which is when my family came to Canada on the French side). I am also have Irish- they came to the maritimes in 1845 (or the Great Potato Famine brought on by the English and the Irish Holocaust). So I am 16th generation and my 8 nieces and nephew are 17th!
Forgot to mention the very first colony in North America was in Nova Scotia near where my nana is from, Yarmouth. The acadians and natives lived and worked in peace for 200 years until the English came and ruined everything! They started a very lucrative colony in timber, the fur trade that reached europe, salted cod industry. They shared their knowledge and resources to improve both of their conditions. I even think alot of the french lived in teepees!
Ontario is. WASP to me denotes old money wealth, and most of it is here.
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This. Old school Anglo-Montreal could also be a bit like this in the past, but many of the folks who'd fit into this category have drifted to Ontario over the last 50 years or so.
British Columbia is still a fairly young part of the country. I've heard the oldest people there can trace their ancestry back 2 or 3 generations until they trace it outside the country. The diversity in the white population seems very thin.
Not only the name itself, but the feel of British Columbia, with the exception of the non-white population there feels very WASPy. I mean rich WASPy. Blue blood, old money, country club, pink shirt, chinos wearing, WASPyness. Think old school New England. I mean REALLY WASPy. Every white person I have met from BC has looked like someone out of Downton Abbey or something. I find it really weird as they're still Canadian.
That's a lot of nonsense. Obviously you don't know much about BC's history, you evidently haven't met very many people from BC and even more obviously you've never been to visit BC and seen all of its towns and people up close and personal.
That's a lot of nonsense. Obviously you don't know much about BC's history, you evidently haven't met very many people from BC and even more obviously you've never been to visit BC and seen all of its towns and people up close and personal.
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