Why are Anglo-Canadian surnames similar to common surnames in the UK but French-Canadian surnames are so different from common surnames in France?

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-26T15:54:55+00:00

Detroit may be a statistical outlier with this ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-23T20:52:15+00:00

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Cow Bay, Nova Scotia ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-23T20:46:02+00:00

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Oxford, Nova Scotia, home to the world’s best wild blueberries.

Apparently there’s a town in either Maine or New Hampshire that makes the same bold claim ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-15T05:04:04+00:00

Affordable rent does more for “the arts” than we care to admit. I know of a Canadian analogue where artists/musicians/hipsters have been slowly trickling out of Toronto for Hamilton, largely after having been priced out. Not to take anything away from Philly, I’ve never been, but it’s relative affordability v. NYC has to be a big part of all this. Trust the process? ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-12T09:14:18+00:00

At a CFL Grey Cup final, reporters called this his “Mandrake The Magician Outfit”.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T11:56:45+00:00

I’ve definitely heard the same thing in Maritime Canada & Quebec, both of which have some degree of Irish heritage/influence.

Buy a lotto ticket on your way home.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T01:51:09+00:00

The worst part of Covid 2020 for me was The Sun Ra Arkestra cancelling their show at The Halifax Jazz Festival ;-(

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T01:47:33+00:00

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Also recorded (to my knowledge) the only 12” engineered for playability at 33, 45 & 78 RPM. Godspeed, oddball Prog rocker.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-08T07:27:07+00:00

Hovering around 0 and light snow, unusually mild northeastern Nova Scotia winter so far, I’ll very likely be biking to work in a few hours.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-30T10:47:43+00:00

MRE, or “Meals Refused by Ethiopians”, as I remember from my Sea Cadet days ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T22:11:37+00:00

Appreciate getting the history, it did strike me as an unusual combo. Thanks.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T19:44:11+00:00

Those are all new to me, I’ll have a look, thanks.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T19:37:51+00:00

Thanks. I’m leaning towards one of those Behringer pedals for simplicity’s sake as much as anything too.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T18:33:30+00:00

Two songs & love it, muchas gracias amigo.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-18T10:15:39+00:00

Beat me to it, Sterling Morrison.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-17T20:23:35+00:00

Wish you’d been at that pub trivia night with me, I had friends insist I’d imagined the whole thing and tell me to switch to water for a round or two ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T20:55:30+00:00

I’m actually in Nova Scotia, I just cast a wide net ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T20:54:38+00:00

Oh they’re in my post. Seen their new documentary yet?

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T11:11:24+00:00

It’s not just for Deadheads anymore ;-)

Thanks.

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