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Originally Posted by isaidso
15% of Canadians identify as Irish-Canadian. This number jumps between 20-30% in Atlantic Canada.
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St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland is probably the most "Irish" place outside of Ireland by descent.
Newfoundland Irish are actually pre-Famine, so it's a rather different situation from New England where you had a massive Irish influx 200 years after the ancestors of the Yankees came.
And it's actually undercounted in the census, since a lot write "Canadian." The city is 45% Catholic but only one-third report Irish origins. Virtually all Catholics there are of Irish ancestry.