Do you have French-Canadian ancestry? We share our 3 top online resources for extending your French-Canadian family history.
Can someone leave a lasting legacy in less than 26 years? That’s the first thing I thought about when I began researching my seven times great grandmother on my fathers’ side. I think so. The…
The Université de Montréal’s Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Research Program in Historical Demography) — PRDH — announced yesterday it has added 1.7 million 19th-century Quebec baptism, marriage, and burial records to its website. The addition of these records … Continue reading →
If you have German ancestors, chances are you've encountered some challenges trying to track them down. Changes in jurisdiction and borders, lack of central record keeping, foreign language websites and Old German script are just a few areas that trip up many family historians. This guide will help you overcome these hurdles and discover free resources.
Le premier Trudelle en Canada et ses descendants, Théophile Albert Trudelle, Québec : Imp. Brousseau & Desrochers, 1911, 192 pages. Reading the book online/ archives.org / lire le livre en lign…
If you are a descendant of a Mylott, a Glode, a Wills, a Beauvais, a Bissonnette, a Yetto, a St Hilaire or a Rivet on this site, you have an ancestor, at least one and probably more, who was in the Carignan-Salieres regiment. In the mid 1660s, the Carignan-Salieres, veterans of the war with the Ottoman Empire, recruited new young men in France to be sent to the colony in Québec to protect the economic interests of the crown from the Iroquois nation. The Iroquois, assisted and encouraged by the Dutch and later English interests in New England and New Amsterdam, picked off settlers in the French Colony - sometimes there were massacres of entire settlements in Montréal, called Ville Marie at that time. The Champlain - Richelieu water corridor made raids into Quebec from New England a straight shot. The reverse was also true, French interests and allies used the same corridor to raid New York and New England. Twelve hundred troops began arriving in June 1665 and were immediately put into service building Fort Sorel and Fort Ste Anne on Isle la Motte in Lake Champlain, now a part of Vermont. They also constructed Fort St Jean, Fort Ste Therese, and Fort St Louis (later Fort Chambly), all on the Richelieu River. In January of 1666, the middle of winter, 300 under equipped troops were sent on a fool's mission into enemy territory by the Québec governor. Traveling over a hundred miles, starving and hypothermic, they arrived in the Dutch settlement of Schenectady where the kind farmers fed and sheltered them. They returned to Quebec having learned a brutal lesson that many upstate New Yorkers know too well. Don't go into the north country without the proper equipment in the middle of January! Scapulurs worn around one's neck. Made by nuns for divine protection of the soldiers. Displayed at the museum at Fort Chambly Then in the fall of 1666, there was another expedition to Iroquois country. Traveling form Québec, French soldiers reached their destination in the Mohawk Valley, west of Schenectady in two to three weeks. This time, they were successful destroying several Mohawk villages. Their efforts earned a peace between the Iroquois and French settlers after more than two decades of guerilla war by Iroquois. After the peace was made in 1667, the regiments were disbanded and returned to France. However, over 400 men choose to remain in Quebec, marry and start families there. We are the descendants of many of these soldiers. Below is a link to a gorgeously written document of the individual names of soldiers in the Carignan-Salieres Regiments. A Listing of Soldiers in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment The Bissonnette (Wills), Beauvais (Wills), Millot (Mylott), Glode-Poissant and Rivet-LaCasse families all have forefathers who served in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment. Although this list is a work in progress, it is a beginning to identify all Carignan-Salieres forefathers of the families on this site. You may note in the list below, some individuals are in more than one family; they are ancestors in two families and some like Louis Robert and Nicolas Sylvestre, are ancestors in three families. Here is the list thus far: In the Glode-Poissant family there are at least sixteen: Louis Badillac dit Laplante Jean Besset dit Brisetout Jean Bricault dit Lamarche Jean Brochu dit La Fontaine Michel Brouillet dit Laviolette Etienne Charles dit Lajeunesse Pierre Couc dit LaFleur Jean Delpé dit Pariseau Julien Dumont dit LaFleur Jean Gazaille dit St Germain André Jarret dit de Beuregard Jean Lavallée dit Petit Jean Pierre Menard dit Lapierre Issac Paquet dit Lavallée Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Jacques Têtu dit Larivière In the Bissonnette family there are ten: Bernard De Niger dit Sanssoucy René Dumas dit Rencontre Antoine Dupré dit Rochefort Antoine Emery dit Coderre Aubin Lambert dit Champagne Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Jean Robin dit Lapointe Antoine Rousseau dit LaBonté Jacques Suprenant dit Sanssoucy Nicholas Sylvestre dit Champagne In the Beauvais family there are eight: Francois Biville dit Le Picard Antoine Emery dit Coderre Pierre Favreau dit Deslauriers Nicolas Bonin dit St Martin Julien Lord dit Montagne Pierre Mésnard dit Xaintogne Jacques Paviot dit LaPensée Pierre Morin dit Champagne In the Millot family there are three: Francois Chagnon dit LaRose Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Nicholas Sylvestre dit Champagne In the Rivet and LaCasse families there are ten: Antoine Casse dit Lacasse Francois Chagnon dit LaRose Bernard Delpêche dit Bellair Antoine Emery dit Coderre Pierre Favreau dit Deslauriers Julien Lord dit Montagne Piere Mageau dit Maisonseule Pierre Mésnard dit Xaintonge Eustache Prévost dit Lafleur Nicolas Sylvestre dit Champagne
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Index: Early French Canadian Pioneers Etienne Nicolas | Marie-Charlotte Chevalier September 7th, 1750, Quebec (Notre-Dame)
After the Blessed Virgin Mary and her assorted shrines and grottoes, evangelical Catholics in Canada and United States flock to and draw inspiration from the North American Martyrs’ Shrines in Midland, Ontario and Auriesville, New York; where collectively six clerics and two `donne’ or lay people were killed, supposedly `in odium fidei’ (in hatred of the faith).
Cette Plaque se trouve sur l’emplacement d’une terre de 4 arpents de front sur le Saint-Laurent sur 12 1/2 e profondeur. Elle fut concédée à Jacques Archambault ancêtre des Archambault…
This post is also available in: FrançaisFrance under the Old Régime did not supply a great number of emigrants to its colonies across the Atlantic. In fact, just 15 000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen sailed for Canada in the seventeenth century, and two-thirds of them stayed in the colony for a short period and either returned … Continue reading "Immigration from Old to New France"
Guillaume Coutre, premier colon de la Pointe-Lévy (Lauzon), Roy, Joseph-Edmond Lévis, Québec, Mercier, 1884, 203 pages. Read at Archive.org – lire à Archive.org Download – Télécharger PDF TABLE DES…
Index: A Portrait Gallery of Traditional Quebec Life, Trades & Professions
Arrival of the Brides by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (c. 1927) If you were a French woman in the 17th century, packing your bags, uprooting your life, and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to settl…
Find out about the origins of Laurentian French and why Québecois speak with a distinct accent from continental France.
Quebec, often called “La Belle Province”, is Canada’s second-most populous province and the second largest French-speaking state in the world (after France). Quebec is also the la…
Index: A Portrait Gallery of Traditional Quebec Life, Trades & Professions
Guillaume Coutre, premier colon de la Pointe-Lévy (Lauzon), Roy, Joseph-Edmond Lévis, Québec, Mercier, 1884, 203 pages. Read at Archive.org – lire à Archive.org Download – Télécharger PDF TABLE DES…
Arrival of the Brides by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (c. 1927) If you were a French woman in the 17th century, packing your bags, uprooting your life, and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to settl…
Episode 022-October 21, 2014 As we did with baptism records in episode #13, today we look at the components of a marriage record. In Language Tip #22, we cover some of the common French words or phrases found in most marriage records. In the main segment, we inspect the record segment by segment, covering some […]
Micmac Indians, Mi'kmaq First Nation - An important Algonquian tribe that occupied the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The French called them Sourigeois.
A military history of the 17th century and the 18th century
The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June and every month of the year had a…
Jacques Archambault with his family immigrated from France to Quebec City sometime between 1645-1647. He was probably recruited by Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny, Director of Embarkations at La …
Looking for free Canadian genealogy records? From vital records to immigration, here are the top sites to search today.
Source: Les anciennes familles du Québec, Brasserie Labatt limitée, La Brasserie – Québec (Province) – 159 pages Famille La Salle Famille Fleury Famille Brisebois Famille Robert…
Le soleil, 1896- (Québec), 10 avril 2004, Cahier D Régiment Fraser Highlanders, Abraham Martin dit L’Écossais, Guerre de 7 ans, Fraser, Ross, Forbes, Blackburn, MacKay, MacCartney,
This index is a list of links to information about Metis surnames that are present in Ontario and which originated primarily with the Metis of western and central Canada. It’s under develop…
