Canada has this mythological existence as The Place To Escape To, which has odd real world repercussions, especially for those of us who escaped here.
I met somebody at a bus stop once who was a descendant of one early Underground Railway escapee and a zillion Quebecois. In the early C.19 very few of them got here and they were just absorbed by the locals, but by the 1850s there was a whole ex-slave escapee community, near Lionel Groulx metro station, where there is a Union United church of that era.
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Date: 2013-04-07 11:52 am (UTC)I met somebody at a bus stop once who was a descendant of one early Underground Railway escapee and a zillion Quebecois. In the early C.19 very few of them got here and they were just absorbed by the locals, but by the 1850s there was a whole ex-slave escapee community, near Lionel Groulx metro station, where there is a Union United church of that era.