Page 71 - Katherine Ryan press pack

"I really thought we hadn't been in Canada very long, and I sort of hoped that we

hadn't been in Canada very long because I know what went on there with the
slaughter of the indigenous people and all those awful, awful things. But we had

been there quite a long time doing fishing and preaching and Methodist touring," she
explained during the breakfast television interview.

As she travelled to Canada, Ryan discovered details about an ancestor who was a

Methodist minister and his family in colonial Nova Scotia.

With the help of genealogists and historians, the comedian also found out about cod

traders in Newfoundland before making the startling revelation that she had British
roots.

Through research, she was able to locate her English ancestor, a pub landlord who
lived in the Dorset village of Corfe Castle during the late 1770s.