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As I've told my kids, they are 1/4 Scottish (last name), 1/4 French (their mother tongue), 1/2 Irish (both grandmothers), and 100% Canadian. The Irish heritage goes back quickly to Ireland (2 and 4 generations). The Scottish is less pure, but largely Scottish/English since my first Canadian ancestors arrived in North America in 1814. The French goes back absolutely purely French to 1614, when my wife's ancestors first arrived in Acadia (I'm the second non-French and first non-Catholic to pollute her line). My father-in-law searched desperately to find some Amerindian blood in his family tree, but never could. So we are basically your run-of-the-mill European colonists, and definitely NOT of Cherokee or any other First Nation descent.
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