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Originally Posted by Acajack
Gill can also be a French Canadian name.
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So Gill can be an all-Canadian name (okay, so that goes against the spirit of Canadian identity set out by Pierre Trudeau in his quote about how there's no such thing as an "all-Canadian boy or girl", which some took to be a foil to the idea of the "all-American" archetype, but whatever
) -- it's got the possibility of being English, French, Scottish and thus could pass for any of the "charter" or "old stock Canadian" surnames, in addition to belonging to a visible minority (Punjabi) that's also represented in Canada.
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Originally Posted by Pinion
Official most common surnames in Vancouver:
1. Lee
2. Wong
3. Chan
4. Smith
5. Kim
6. Chen
7. Gill
8. Li
9. Brown
10. Johnson
Disclaimer, this list is 10 years old... so almost as old as this thread.
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Probably the mix of the Anglo-Celtic (English, Irish) Lees and the East Asian Lees (Chinese, Korean) puts Lee on the top of the list.
Is someone with the name "Lee" (assuming no other background info) more likely to be assumed to be white or East Asian these days in Canada?
My impression is that I think of a
Canadian "Lee" as being an Asian Vancouverite or Torontonian but an
American "Lee" as being a white/European-descended Southerner.