Canadian/ English heritage

My ancestry has never been very important to me all I have really ever known is that my dad’s side is from england and my grandpa was the first of his family, and only one, to come over to Canada, and that my mom's side has been living in Canada for a very long time dating back before the war of 1812.

My grandpa on my dad's side, told me that he came over to Canada because he wanted to see what it was like to live in Canada and he ended up staying after he met my Grandma. My grandpa told me what it was like to grow up in England and how some things are really different like driving on the opposite side of the road some of the food that he grew up eating like black pudding, which isn’t a pudding but blood sausages a lot of meat pies, with steak chicken and other kinds of meat in them.   

On my moms side I found out from my grandmother that my ancestors came over to Canada a very long time ago and even before the war of 1812 and somewhere along the way one of my ancestors married a indigenous person and as i found out my great-grandma was 1/8th Indigenous making me something like 1/12th or something. But my grandma has been trying very hard to make me and my brothers appreciate our indigenous background by making us go to pow wows when one is being held and by finding relatives who are more closely tied to their indigenous background.  

Works Cited

black pudding. wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_dishes#/media/File:Boudin3.jpg.

FitzGibbon, Cheryl. Interview. 30 Nov. 2017.

meat pie. wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_dishes#/media/File:Homemade_meat_pie.jpg.

Ockenden, Ernest. Interview. 30 Nov. 2017.

powwow. powwow time, powwow-power.com/powwow-time/.

My sport Hockey

Hockey is a big part of my family and a tradition of playing and watching hockey was started by my grandparents who started this tradition by watching NHL (national hockey league) games all their lives, their children my mother and uncle both grew up watching and playing hockey and they both played high levels of hockey, my uncle played triple hockey all his life till he quite, and my mother played high level girl hockey and was the one who got me to being a goalie.

I was first introduced to hockey at the age of five were I first played timbit hockey and from there I fell in love with the game hockey, I started playing rep hockey my third year of playing, I became a goalie part way through that season as my team was in need of one and I stepped up during practice and after having my mom make sure I really wanted to be a goalie by shooting pucks off my head and asking after each shot “are you sure you want to be a goalie”my answer each time was “of course I do” . My love for hockey was passed down to each of my two brothers and both of my cousins who all play hockey in Orangeville and all love the game just as much as everyone else in my family does.

My family’s love for hockey does not come from just playing hockey we also love to watch hockey no matter what league it is whether it is: OHL (ontario hockey league), WHL (western hockey league) QMJHL (quebec major junior hockey league), NHL  (national hockey league), or any of the many european hockey leagues (that’s not italian or british because those leagues are horrible). But my family mainly watches the NHL and we all have our own team that we each like, we have long arguments that are friendly about team is better.

NHL Teams

This is why hockey is important to my family because gives us something to argue about (in a friendly manner) and it gives us the chance to play the a sport that means so much to each of us.   

Works Cited

FitzGibbon, Erin. Interview. 29 Oct. 2017.

Hockey faceoff. Bithockey.com, btihockey.com/the-problem-with-face-off-percentage/. Accessed 31 Oct. 2017.

NHL teams. NHL.com, www.nhl.com/news/nhl-team-nickname-origins-explained/c-283976168. Accessed 31 Oct. 2017.