Roy, King, Mitchell, Desjardins, and more: Why your surname may be the key to Canadian citizenship
For much of the last 300 years, a French-Canadian family could answer to two surnames at once. A man baptized Roy might be buried as a Desjardins. Their grandchildren might use both, or pick one, or quietly drop the other. If your family came from Quebec, you may have inherited the half that hides where
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For much of the last 300 years, a French-Canadian family could answer to two surnames at once. A man baptized Roy might be buried as a Desjardins. Their grandchildren might use both, or pick one, or quietly drop the other. If your family came from Quebec, you may have inherited the half that hides where […]
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