Quote Originally Posted by cessna152towser View Post
It is remarkable how the family has thrived and multiplied in Canada while they have withered away in Scotland, is it something in the Canadian water?
I think it is the immigrant experience. People had larger families to try to have as many wage earners as they could. My Dad was the youngest of six brothers, all of them had good sized families, one of his brothers had seven children, I am the oldest of four, and have three adult children of my own.

Near as I can tell, we are likely Highland Scots who left after Culloden and went to Ireland, my family emigrated to Nova Scotia, then the US through Boston, ending up in Western Maryland. We were miners back then. My grandfather moved to Western PA to the steel mills and my core family is mostly there. I have been in touch via Facebook with a woman in NS who tells me there are a lot of us still in Canada, and my wife and I are planning a 30th anniversary trip to the Maritimes to check it out.

BTW, there IS something in that Canadian water. They make FABULOUS beer! eh?