source: David Garneau 1620 Population of Kebec 83 French (I)-Adrien du Chesne (Duchene), a surgeon, from Dieppe arrived Kebec this year. He remained in Kebec with his wife during the English occupation. Pierre Antoine Pastedechouan a young Montagnais is taken to France for an education in French, Latin and is baptized. (I)-Abraham Martin dit l’Ecossais, [...]
Immigration from Old France to New France France 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 [...]
Where does one get good genealogy data? Unfortunately, there is no single correct answer to this question. The answer depends in large part on where you are researching and what you need.
Because many of our visitors have been attempting to read the postings of our Filles a Marier and Filles du Roi, I am attempting to gain permission for web publication of the data I have. Unfortunately much of our current data is extracted from the fine work of Peter Gagne and we must respect his [...]
Welcome to ManyRoads! Like each of you, we are the product of the long journey of our ancestors. All of us are joined together in the stream of humanity and love that makes us who we are. The work and information contained on this site have evolved across the years into this format and represent [...]
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions we have had to make numerous history pages private. In deference to the author’s copyright, we are unable and unwilling to publicly share any information we obtain directly from Peter Gagne’s outstanding works. We do this out of respect for his outstanding efforts on our behalf. Quite frankly without his [...]
In order to classify our early Canadian forebears, we have decided to use the descriptions of The Filles a Marier developed by Peter Gagne. Note all those without links will soon have information pages for you to read… please be patient while the information is added to our site. All others have their tales described [...]
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