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[colomon]

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[cochese]

There have been Fosters there for about 120 years now, ever since my great-great grandfather picked up his family and moved there from Ontario.

So you're ethnically Canadian?

[colomon]

If you want to look at it that way, sure. The Fosters lived there for about a hundred years before they came to the US, and at least one other branch of the family tree came from Canada as well. I'd always known my great-grandfather Solomon went to high school in Marine City, but when Jen and I were poking around the records a couple of years ago we discovered that he was a Canadian citizen at the time; he didn't become a US citizen until a few years after he married a nice Marine City girl.

I should add that they didn't move very far into the US -- Marine City is right on the Canadian border.

[cochese]

Are you involved in a lot of Canadian cultural fairs to celebrate your Canadian heritage?

[colomon]

Nah, mostly it's just a matter of proximity. Goderich is by far the closest multi-day Celtic workshop, just as Toronto is the closest big city (excepting Detroit).

Heck, when I was a kid, we used to go to Canada for things like hard-pack ice cream cones and Chinese food....