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Originally Posted by urbandreamer
Was Hazel McCallion French Canadian? It says she was Anglican in the CBC article re: her death this morning at 101.
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From the CBC article:
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Hazel Journeaux was born on Feb. 14, 1921, in Port Daniel, Que., a very small town in the Gaspé Peninsula. The youngest of five children developed a life-long passion for hockey and eventually landed in Montreal for education and her first professional jobs. With the engineering firm Canadian Kellogg, she moved to Toronto in her late 20s.
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There are (rapidly diminishing) anglophone enclaves in the Gaspe, but her maiden name is of French origin, so it is reasonable to presume she grew up in a French Canadian family, with French being her mother tongue. The bit about her being Anglican is interesting though. Perhaps her mother was anglophone, and this could explain her denomination, and perhaps the language at home was English as well.
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