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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
... 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.
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Forgot to reply to this (was suspended at the time...) but it is most definitely not reasonable at all. A French Canadian family in 1921 Absolutely. Does. Not. Ever. name a baby "Hazel". Regardless of the family name, they were obviously Anglos; that's guaranteed. Being Anglican is just the icing on the cake, had we needed one more clue.
It's not a Québécois surname at all, so my guess was Channel Islands. And I would have been right.
My Gaspé Anglo ex's grandma had a French-sounding (yet not Québécois) surname, and she was the Britishest person I ever met. Anglo-Norman family, no trace of Frenchness left except the surname. I know I mentioned it here already, but she had a huge framed pic of QEII in the house -- and it did not look out of character at all
I was sure it was the same thing here.