Touchy subject in my family, these Canadians. The family, German Mennonites, headed northwest and began settling in the Ontario region in the 1780's, having emigrated from the US, specifically Pennsylvania.
As the story goes, those in the family who spoke better French than German decided to return east to Pennsylvania, but stopped and settled in the area of Quebec, having become confused with the map directions, which were written in German.
Some of the family eventually ventured due west and grew that part of the family up in what is now British Columbia. Within the family history, there's a story of one gentleman who tended to mix his German and French incomprehensibly, confusing listeners. He became a loner of sorts, preferring the company of the forest rather than people, and moved onto an island. It is said he had a strange habit of warming his hands inside his pants near his private parts, which is probably where the famiy legend surrounding his tendancy to measure everything with his hand grew from.