Justin Bieber posted a screenshot of Ancestry's family tree to his Instagram with the caption, "I also just found out that I'm related to both Ryan Gosling and Avril Lavigne. This is the best day of my life. It seems super legit, it's on Ancestry.com." After all, who wouldn't be excited about the possibility of such a star-studded family reunion?
Although Celine Dion is absent from the family tree, the Dion name does appear in Gosling and Lavigne's lineages, starting with Marie-Thérèse and Pierre Dion. According to Perche-Quebec.com, Dion's ancestors settled in Quebec at the same time as Jacques Vézina and Marie Boisdon in the mid-1600s. The powerhouse vocalist's mother even shared a name with their 17th-century ancestor, Thérèse Tanguay-Dion.
These uncanny familial connections stem from Perche, a French province from which many of the original Quebec settlers came. Perche-Quebec.com reports that most French Canadians are distantly related to these 17th-century Percherons, despite this immigrant group making up only 4% of the total French settlers in Quebec.
