Obama's Canuck Campaign Manager

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Obama's Canuck Campaign Manager

#1 Post by etaoin22 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:06 pm

Yup.

David Plouffe is Canuck, in the New England sense of being of a family from the immigration boom to New England in the 1800's. (I don't know how long you have to be out of a mostly French speaking environment before you stop being Canuck, mind you, or whether this classic surname suffices)

I have great-great-great-grandfather Paul Plouffe living in, and emigrating from Ste-Victoire-de-Sorel in 1856.

His uncle, also Paul Plouffe, is still in Maine, a lawyer who is also Maine's Environmentalist-of-the-year. He has climbed every mountain in Maine.

Gotta review all my references, but I am 99.9% certain this is right.

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Re: Obama's Canuck Campaign Manager

#2 Post by TheConfessor » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:11 pm

etaoin22 wrote:David Plouffe is Canuck, in the New England sense of being of a family from the immigration boom to New England in the 1800's. (I don't know how long you have to be out of a mostly French speaking environment before you stop being Canuck, mind you, or whether this classic surname suffices)
By that standard, so am I.

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Re: Obama's Canuck Campaign Manager

#3 Post by etaoin22 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:23 pm

TheConfessor wrote:
etaoin22 wrote:David Plouffe is Canuck, in the New England sense of being of a family from the immigration boom to New England in the 1800's. (I don't know how long you have to be out of a mostly French speaking environment before you stop being Canuck, mind you, or whether this classic surname suffices)
By that standard, so am I.
well, if the old family homestead is in Maine and you go back twice a year..

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