Scottish and Irish Diaspora - Populating Canada

[CMcG]

Withering family size is a trend here in Canada as well... my great-grandfather (like the good Irish Catholic that he was) had 13 children in his first family and another 11 with a second wife after the first one died in child birth! My grandfather had 5 kids and my father had just one (me).

My family tree has a great girth in the roots but they seem to be digging less and less deep as time goes by. A product of the modern world or a result of changes to the immigrant mentality once established in a new home?

[jhockin]

I hear what you are saying!
I got some 'family tree' info, on my MacNaughton ancestors, last year. Robert MacNaughton, born in Scotland about 1776; emigrated to Canada, with his family, and settled in Dalesville Quebec, about 1824. Following the family tree, there are now thousands of descendants ( or maybe 10's of 1000s?). No doubt, this why we hear that thre more people of scottish descent living outside of Scotland, than Scot living inside of Scotland - and more than lived in Scotland at the time of the '74.