French-Canadian Descendants

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Comment by James P. LaLone on December 14, 2011 at 10:32am

Program on TV5 Canada's website "Village en Vue."
It highlights one village per episode. There are two seasons
of episodes viewable online.

Here is the interactive website: http://villageenvue.tv5.ca/ click on
the village to view the episode and some information about it.

Comment by James P. LaLone on December 5, 2011 at 10:08am

Fieldstone house lovingly preserved after being home to generations of Quebec farming families

 

The sleepy little village of L’Acadie and its 18th and 19th-century homes are some of Quebec’s most valuable heritage treasures, which year after year, decade after decade, century after century, remain standing as a testament to where we come from. And while most prospective home buyers tend to look for the newer, modern contemporary style homes to purchase, once in a while a real treasure hits the real estate market, one that can actually give the visitor goose bumps.

One such treasure currently up for sale is the Québécois-style, fieldstone house at 780 Chemin des Vieux-Moulins, in L’Acadie, just 35 km southeast of Montreal, close to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/True+treasure+Acadie/5807789/story.h...

Comment by James P. LaLone on December 4, 2011 at 9:14am

F-C church records & Iroquois-

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/11/18/st-lawrence-un...

Comment by Patricia Quinn on November 24, 2011 at 8:23am

To all - Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate, and have a wonderful day to everyone.  

Comment by James P. LaLone on November 17, 2011 at 7:40am

From the Quebec-Research mailing list -

Hi there,

Anyone using the Library & Archives Canada (LAC) website for their
research knows how precious a resource it is. What you may not know,
however, is that massive budget cutbacks and a recent change in
management policy are threatening the preservation of this institution.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has just launched
an awareness campaing about what is really going on at LAC and the very
serious implication this will have on the future of the preservation of
Canada's cultural heritage.

To know more about this issue:
http://www.savelibraryarchives.ca/default.aspx

Cheers,

Mona

Comment by Charlotte Heidi Johnson on November 10, 2011 at 7:15pm

In search of any information on Leopoldo and Edouina Chartrand (my grandparents) and my uncle, aunts and their children.  They were all born in Pointe-Claire Quebec Canada.

Any other information on the Chartrand ancestry side.

Comment by James P. LaLone on November 10, 2011 at 8:27am

Welcome Sandra, glad you are finding the references and links helpful. Don't know if you noticed that the Dictionary of Canada is online http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html and often brief biographical sketches can be found on your ancestors.  Also I mentioned the English version of "Madam Montour", I am about half way through it and is chocked full of history and is quite interesting. They had their economic problems back then too, things don't really change.Good luck in your search.

Comment by Sandra Berry/Guenther on November 10, 2011 at 12:50am

I am new to this site. I have already learned more terrific history of New France and able to get mental pictures of some of my early family  in those times.

Some of my surnames are;Baril/Berry, Beaulac/Bolack, Guillet dit Lajeuness, Couturier, Moran, Meny, Cloutiuer.

Comment by Shari Strahan on November 7, 2011 at 11:09am

To Mary Ellen Aube - a few clarifications to Terri Mercier's find -

At St-Roch (Quebec city), Quebec Province, on 26 April 1893, were married Mr Charles Aube, cordonnier (shoe maker), adult son of Mr Magloire Aube (no occupation given) and of Dame Camille Terrealt (sic?) of Thompsonville, Connecticut, United States, and Miss Marie Eva Richard, adult daughter of the "feu" (deceased) Mr. Joseph Richard and the deceased Dame Marie Louise Cantin of this parish...

This is from the Drouin microfilms at Ancestry.com - if you have a subscription the entry can be viewed at http://search.ancestry.ca/browse/view.aspx?dbid=1091&iid=d13p_1...

If not, the Quebec parish records are online at FamilySearch.org and you can search the parish register for the date to find the entry.

Charles could not sign his name, but Eva did. There was a dispensation granted for 2 of the 3 customary banns to the marriage.

There is a marriage of Magloire Aube and Camille Turgeon at Ste-Marguerite (Dorchester, Quebec) in 1865, and given the unique names I expect the Drouin marriage entry for their son gives an incorrect surname for Camille.

This same situation applies to Eva's mother: the name in the record could also be "Couture", but there is a marriage of a Joseph Richard and a Louise Cantin in 1860 at Quebec.

Regards,

Shari Strahan

Comment by James P. LaLone on November 7, 2011 at 8:16am

AMERICAN SPIRIT magazine, Nov/Dec 2011, "The Long Journey Home", p.40, concerns the Acadians.

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