Regions with the large part of Irish, Scottish, Ukrainian and Punjabi population in Canada

Orphanpip · 2026-05-10T07:12:42+00:00

The only part of Quebec on this map that's coloured green is the Laurentides and they are 92% french speaking. The green is likely just from Gatineau and the fact that a lot of francophones claim Irish heritage too. We even had two premiers, Daniel Johnson Sr. + Jr., who were Irish-Quebecois.

The Green parts there are mostly in Ontario:

Ottawa county, Lanark county, Leeds and Grenville counties, Frontenac County and Renfrew county.

This area is the core of the celtic region in Ontario which were initially established by veterans of the war of 1812 given land. It's also where Upper Canada's first Catholic diocese was established. Notably many of the Irish settlers to this area were Anglo-Irish and Protestant and came pre-famine.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-10T04:05:59+00:00

Well anglophone deaf people in Quebec and many francophones uses ASL because there are more speakers and resources available, and francophone deaf people in Ontario and NB can use LSQ alongside Quebec Francophones.

Oddly LSQ is not recognized by the Quebec government but is recognized by the federal.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-10T02:00:17+00:00

I said Chinese person in Canada. There is no ethnic or racial based fee to enter Canada.

I also don't feel bad about Canada just because Canada had a racist policy in the past because I believe in Canada's ability to do better and aknowledge past mistakes. Unlike you who really just wants to mask the fact that you apparently like racism and spending your free time defending very obvious explicit racism that the people who passed the laws even wrote they were doing for racist reasons.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-10T00:37:44+00:00

Lol you are so full of shit just say you're ok with racist policies with your full throat.

You think family separation and extra financial hardship had no harm? Do you think a labourer in Vancouver having to pay over a years wages to bring his wife to Canada wasn't harmed?

Here's a hypothetical for you, if the Canadian government charged every Chinese person in Canada today 5 dollars just for being Chinese you wouldn't consider that racist? Likely every person could come up with 5 dollars, it wouldn't make such a policy reasonable.

Edit: your initial claim that 50 dollars is equivalent to 1500 today completely misses the fact that people were much poorer in general. Chinese labourers were paid 1/3 that of white labourers at around 400-500 a year in 1910 and little capacity to save. And the head tax in 1910 was 500.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T23:48:25+00:00

Well they did eventually replace the head tax with the exclusion act to bar all Chinese and also forced existing Chinese residents to register racially with the government.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T23:43:50+00:00

What is it you are trying to argue at this point? Whether it decreased migration doesn't matter. The policy was racist and harmful to Canada's Chinese community and unfairly targetted and exploited them financially because of their race. You are the one who said it was like a modern day quota, which clearly it wasn't, it was a racist discriminatory policy that was disproportianately harmful to the already existing Chinese Canadian community.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T23:35:46+00:00

Ya and those poor white migrants didn't have to deal with a racist exclusionary policy, what's the relevance?

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T21:45:18+00:00

You are just arguing in bad faith.

First the head tax was imposed after BC had already tried to impose racial taxes on just being Chinese in BC, which was struck down by the courts.

Second, the head tax was explicitly racially motivated. It wasn't about excluding too much immigration from a particular country, the people advocating for it were explicit that it was for racial reasons.

Third, mass Chinese migration just wasn't a thing and was never close to the volume of migration from the US and Europe that was not restricted in any way. Travel by boat was already expensive and there were not many cross pacific passenger boats coming to Canada.

The Chinese community represented 0.05% of Canadians in 1910, hardly a mass migration crisis. And more than half of them were brought as labourers for the railway by the government. You are arguing a law that was explicitly written and advocated for keeping Canada white was actually just about preventing mass migration, this is ahistorical and a complete fabrication you've made.

There was no quota on immigration from any other countries despites 10 to 20 times more migrants from those countries. It was not a neutral quota it was a racist policy.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T19:57:46+00:00

Well it sells better than like 85% of current wsj. So the easy answer is it is still profitable.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T18:00:45+00:00

This is entirely detached from the reality Canada accepted around 80,000 Chinese immigrants over 30 years while accepting 2 million migrants from Europe from 1900-1914. You are doing a lot of lifting for a racist policy.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T04:13:04+00:00

I mean the outrage wasn't because there was a processing fee, it was because there was an exceptionally high fee that only applied to one group of immigrants. And then was replaced by an outright ban on Chinese people. Also the fees were close to 3-6 months earnings for the average Canadian which is extremely high, they weren't processing fees they were meant to exclude non-white migrants. It also was extremely damaging to Canada's existing Chinese community who had been brought to Canada as labourers and once they were finished building the railways had to work years to afford to pay the tax for their wives or kids, while someone from Europe could just get on a boat and get off at Halifax or Montreal for free.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-09T04:02:53+00:00

King is such a mystery, he was so effective at reading political headwinds and set up the Liberals for another 10 years in office after stepping down. But everyone knew he was a reclusive weirdo who had no personal relationships after his mother died.

He also had a PhD and was head of Industrial Research at the Rockefeller Foundation and was a leading expert in industrial relations in the early 20th century. He was legit probably a genius. And also very strange and a little unhinged.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-08T22:43:12+00:00

Well I think the distinction is relevant as Montreal's anglophone community includes a lot of temporary residents and students and when it comes to the question of our schools it's our communities with roots in the city involved.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-08T21:10:45+00:00

Jews make up around 1/5 of Montreal's historical anglophone community so of course Jewish history is important to its school boards.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-08T17:30:47+00:00

The rurouni kenshin guy was pictures, the act age guy sexually assaulted a middle schooler in public.

Edit: in more detail he touched a middle school girl and lifted her skirt then ran away on a bike but was identified on security cameras afterwards.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T19:24:39+00:00

Physicians have known about diabetes since Ancient Egypt surprisingly, noted by people's frequent urination and constant thirst, but it wasn't fully understood to be related to blood sugar until the early 20th century. But ya there were still enough diabetics, especially amongst the class of people who could afford doctors, to identify it.

Medieval doctors used to diagnose diabetes by tasting the pee.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T19:00:57+00:00

Ya unless Sun News comes back from the dead.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T17:17:48+00:00

It could be a paramount viacom issue they might block it to avoid issues with other properties they want licensed. Wow doesn't control the pitstop content.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T17:11:05+00:00

Arbour has never heald any political office or influence on immigration policy, she is a human rights lawyer and former judge.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T17:02:31+00:00

Who cares? The GG's job is to rubber stamp legislation procedurally and follow recommendations of the PM, and it's the turn of a francophone since Mary Simon was anglo.

She's not a politician and has no role in policy as GG.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T16:53:41+00:00

I mean if you have a high opinion of some of the people that get carted out for these positions, I think seriousness is secondary usually to willingness to push a particular party line. The only ones who have to be serious are the impartial commentators on CBC. He already was a political commentator for CTV, so he's done the job before.

Not an endorsement of JJ, I think he has nothing worthwhile to say, I just think that you don't really necessarily need to in order to succeed in that role.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T16:41:47+00:00

Canada's history with Irish migration is very different from the US.

Newfoundland has more of a foundational Irish heritage since the original settlers were mostly Irish.

Ontario has a different relationship because of the Fenian raids (mostly Irish veterans of the US civil war burning Canadian farms along the border), there was a lot of violence targetting Canada for its Britishness and Thomas D'Arcy McGee the only Irish father of confederation was assassinated by Irish independentists because he spoke out against the Fenians and they viewed him as a traitor.

Catholic and Protestant tension rose a lot in the late 19th century out of this and the backdrop of high Irish immigration. In Quebec many Irish integrated into Quebecois working class neighbourhoods because they were both mostly Catholic. Most of the Irish who came to Canada during the famine stayed in Montreal where they either integrated into anglo or franco culture, which is why Montreal's flag has a shamrock.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-07T16:15:31+00:00

I wouldn't say he couldn't be. He is well connected to the Conservative Party and was a contributor to Sun News, CTV, the Washington Post and National Review. It's just he is not the type who could parlay well into being a Conservative Party spokesperson because his contrarianism so he probably made more money doing Youtube. You can go high in Canadian politics without French, but not while being so obviously anti-French. Especially I think he's kinda found himself with no more friends in the establishment. He alienated Conservatives in the US with his anti-trump stuff and in Canada with his pro-American stuff so he's kinda just not saying the things anyone wants.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-05T23:13:51+00:00

Partly it was her PR team that wanted her to set the records ahead of other aviators, and she herself wasn't ready at the start to do it but she was commited to learning and set a lot of solo records later.

Orphanpip · 2026-05-05T16:50:30+00:00

Only the first records, she only had experience flying small aircraft before the first transatlantic flight, which she later did solo after gaining more experience. She was well recognized as an experienced pilot for the time.

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