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Originally Posted by Docere
Today of course a good share of Montreal Island anglos are second and third generation Italians and Jews. English ancestry is pretty uncommon in Montreal nowadays.
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Indeed.
Here is the board of trustees for Montreal's English language school board.
http://www.emsb.qc.ca/emsb_en/govern...missioners.asp
I count 8 Italian names, 1 Armenian, 3 Jewish, 1 Greek and 2 French Canadian names. No Smiths and no Wilsons to be found.
Ironically, a good chunk of the population in Montreal (and even moreso across Quebec) with ancestry from the British Isles are actually native French speakers today.