Re: How about Sisters?

Victoria Barrett wrote:
> Cool, I had no idea! Lyndon eh? I'm guessing he was born around
> 1964/68. ;)
late 60s sounds about rate - maybe 69 ?  he was mid to late 20s when 
playing the hex in 1985.


> Ooh, you'd think the Quebecquois would be all over soccer in Canada,
> but I suppose their emigration from France in the early 1800's

well the immigration was mostly pre-1750s.  After the Plains of Abraham 
there wsn't much reason for an adventurous French chap to do the "go 
west young man" thing.  Since then it has been a case of multiplying 
rapidly. Many Québecois my age come from families of 15 kids or so, 
though currently the birth rate is so low that they are worried about 
being diluted out by "laine impure" and offering big baby incentives.

So anyway, the Francophone settlement of Canada (not only Québec) 
predates the era when sports got organised. And hockey always has been 
and remains big there.  There are lots of "founder effects" as we 
geneticists say for names in Québec - a lot of names we take for granted 
are very very rare in France.  (Dion, Dionne, Cournoyer, Tremblay, etc.)

> preceeded the continental obsession with football?
>
> Either way, it's the one New World immigrant descendant group other
> than Irish-Americans (any others?) who are simply not
> soccer-obssessed.

The various groups that settled the prairies in the late 1800s and early 
1900s (Russians, Ukrainians, Hutterites etc.) have no particular 
affinity for football at all.