French Canadian

[amazon510]

The French accent is a good clue.  Of couse some Irish settlers to Quebec became integrated with the French speaking population and so were French speaking despite having English/Irish names.  I think most of the Irish are in Montreal.  If you do any research in Quebec I'd start there. 

The previous post regarding Irvings and New Brunswick is also a good tip.  I quickly googled old KC Irving (there is very wealthy family of Irvings from New Brunswick, KC was the founder of the business).  KC was from Bouctouche, New Brunswick.  Bouctouche is in the French (Acadian) part of New Brunswick.  You could start in Bouctouche and work out from there.

J.

[Christopher Robin]

Hi J

Thanks, so much.

Kind regards

Chris   

[frirish]

  I think most of the Irish are in Montreal. 

They populated much of the Eastern Townships and West Quebec as well.
Here's a link to a list of all the Irish Catholic churches in Quebec:
http://www.pbalkcom.com/valcartier/Research%20Guides/irish_catholic_churches_in_q.htm
Frirish

[IMBER]

  As you say all the surnames are British, but his mother could of
been French Canadian or even his grandmother. But that points to him being born
in Canada !!. Otherwise if he moved to Canada he should of had a English accent.

They look more like Lowland Scottish if anything.  I doubt whether the huge numbers of Scots who moved to Canada would thank you for describing their accent as English.  Any chance of a link with a Canadian Scottish regiment?  Just a thought.

[Christopher Robin]

All I know is that he was in Worthing for a long time during WW2, but have no idea what regiment.
I think he worked at "Courtlands" a large property in Worthing used by the 2nd Div Canadian army.
He was billeted close by in Grand Ave, I even know the house. But there are no records locally substantiating which regiment was billeted there.  All location statements which may help are held in Canada. It is proving very difficult to access these.
http://www.canadianrootsuk.org/vowles.html

Cheers  Chris

[frirish]

chris
someone is writing a book about troops in Worthing:
http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-general/36620-canadian-servicemen-regiments-wwii.html
Some of the men have been identified so perhaps you could contact them!
Cheers!
Frirish

[Christopher Robin]

Frirish

Thanks for the link, the writer is a friend and we are working on the book together. 
Have interviewed a number of Canadian Vets still living in the Worthing area also war brides etc.
Taking a long time and hard work to gleam info for book.

Cheers

Chris