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There is an outside chance that your mother married your birth father at some point after your birth.

grannyfanny ................. he could have been 3rd, 4th or more generation Canadian, and still show only the European ancestry UNLESS there had been a marriage with one of the Indigenous Peoples.

The DNA report is unlikely to to have lied. As caroline said, his family may have been from the UK, he might have been 1st generation Canadian. And only half of your DNA comes from your father.

Keep an eye on any DNA matches that you get, lots of folk from Canada and the USA have DNA tests. Put your mothers family tree on alongside your DNA so that any surname matches can be identified/eliminated. If you get any close matches that you can't identify, they may belong to your fathers family.

See if you can upload your DNA to other sites, sometimes you can. Do the same there, there might be a few different folk on there.

There really is no "Canadian" except for the Indigenous Peoples.

Everyone else is an immigrant, going all the way back to the 15th otr15th century.

So the DNAs will show UK, France, Europe especially northern and Middle European, depending on which wave of immigrants were the ancestors.

So, no, you were not lied to.

If you were born during or soon after WW2, then it is very possible that your father was in the Forces, in the 60s that he was a hippie traveller.

Take your pick!

But it will be extremely hard to find him, especially with only the surname. Canada has no Central Registry for bmds, instead every Province keeps its' own Vital Statistics records. You would have to know in which province he was born or died.

As Caroline says, it may be possible to trace him of he was in the Forces, but the chances are very slim with only the surname and no other information.

He could have been Canadian or at least from Canada as his DNA would reflect his heritage which was probably from the UK.
Was he in the forces maybe there's a way of tracing him if he was but with only a surname it would be very hard I would assume...at least it wasn't Smith!

It just gives my mothers name and she was single and where she was living . I was born in an hospital The names where she was living seems like people she worked for I did try and get some info but it was no help I thought it may have given some name who she was going out with but it didn’t . She told me the surname of my father was Dawson .

What does it say on your birth certificate, were you a home birth, if so you may be able to find out who else was living there at the time or if you know your mothers maiden name you could for a marriage for her to see where she was living then.

I wondered if someone could give me some advice I don’t know who my father was because I was only given a surname but no maiden name I was told he was a Canadian but I have had my DNA done and it came back 54%england and Northwestern Europe and 46% Scotland no mention of Canada does that mean I was lied to ? . If I have not been lied to how is it possible to trace a person with only a surname and nothing else to go on .there is no one alive now that would know anything to help me. Thanks in advance for any advice.Jean