Cosmic Wheels: A lot of non-indigenous Canadians rightfully resent the derogatory "settler" terminology that's been created by the aboriginal movement. My mother was a post-WWII immigrant who never lived in any agricultural setting. So how was she a settler? And my father's ancestors were French-Canadian and Irish. The French "settlers' in many cases intended to come to this country only temporarily and were stranded here when the French regime, worried about the viability of New France, refused to let them return to their homeland. And the poor Irish Catholics. Was any place on earth more victimized by British colonial policy than their homeland? They were banished to the colonies and to the U.S. by means of government policy over which they had no control whatsoever. In today's terminology, they arrived here more as refugees than settlers. Few Canadians today can trace their ancestry to anybody who actually had any control over British or French colonial policy or practices.