Fascinating story. Sailing to Canada would be a dangerous voyage in the small ships of three hundred years ago. I have Canadian relations, of Scots ancestry, who married into French Canadian families in the province of Quebec and the French families can trace their ancestry back to arriving in Canada from France, and emigrants did cross the Atlantic from France in those days so no reason why they could not also have sailed from Scotland to Canada. One of the lines goes back to a Jean Charles Vacher, born in Canada in 1686 to Jean Guillaume Vacher who was born in Angers, Anjou, France and his wife Marie Anne Barillet who was born in Paris, France.
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