-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colleen Andrews Sent: August-05-09 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Native people on census Yes, I've been wondering that too....wondering if an 1861 white censustaker would even know the difference between light-skinned "mulatto" & mixed-blood Native. 2009/8/5 Nicki Harper <[email protected]> An interesting discussion !!!!!!! Coming from a Pure White, and Protestant Corner of Ontario, the first non-white that I ever encountered was a Japanese-Canadian, Shigaro, who with his Family had been displaced from the West Coast, in 1942. We became good friends, for the short time that he was in Ontario. The first coloured teenagers, with whom I crossed paths, were "Hostellers", on bicycles, passing thru' Shanty Bay, Ontario. The two girls, light-skinned, as I remember, were the most gorgeous creatures, that God ever graced his Green earth with !!! Their companions, two boys, were somewhat darker. One had blonde hair, and the other red hair, both natural, not coloured. The date was 1947-1948. It was an experience that has remained with me, all these years. We have a Great-Grandchild, of mixed blood, a happy little guy, who fits in well with his 12 cousins ( on our side ), of Italian, Austrian, Hungarian, Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish Ancestry. Have to go . The kitten just stepped on my keyboard, and erased a lot of what I intended to say .......... The old Census taker perhaps didn't have the opportunities opened up to later Generatiions. Paul Robins