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From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <>
Subject: Re: #7 Re: [DNA] `Ultra-Norse`..who is making up this stuff? / Normandy study
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:12:06 -0300
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> Your HALF of the six million I suggest is 3 million.
>
> The most recent Canadian census available is is 2001. Those of primary
> French identification are 4,668,410. Those who identified themselves
> as
> `Canadian` (first) were 11,682,680. You`ve got another 98,670 hardcore
> bush-ranger types who insist on only identifying as `Québécois`.
> This is not even the current total, and without delving into the
> `Canadian` pool at all, I am at 4.75 million and your 3 million is long
> since surpassed. This is without taking into account that all the
> above populations have grown in size since 2001. Out of the remaining
> 11.5million in 2001, there were more than
> 1.25 million who are french speaking / french origin in large, to reach a
> figure of 6 mil., without even taking into account that these figures are
> currently out of date.
>
> Now,...I concede to you that the whole canadian census is wrong, you are
> correct, and we can drop this...forever.


It is not that the census information is wrong. You seem to
be misinterpreting it. The data can be found at:

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo26a.htm

The Stats Canada background information on the question is
at:

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Reference/dict/pop040.htm

You started this point as an example of how 10000 French
settlers in the 1600s had grown to about 6 million today.
Here you are using data that takes in people that had
nothing to do with Canada in the 1600s. In the census
a person could check as many groups as they thought
pertained to the heritage of their "ancestors" which is
both male and female. For the significant number of
20th century immigrants from France, Haiti, Lebanon, and
other former colonies of France (lots of African immigrants
here) what do you think many of them checked? Haiti,
French, etc. (multiple responses). Again many of these
multiple responses these have nothing to do with 17th century
French settlers you originally referred to.

I think we are pushing the goodwill of the list here.
You can contact me further by private email if you
wish.

Best wishes!

Peter


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