Our Theriaults – The Wandering Years
How did our Theriaults ever end up in Caraquet, New Brunswick?
Our ancestors Joseph Theriault and Marie Joseph Girouard (Gen.5) were among the Acadians who were expelled in the 18th century from what is now called Nova Scotia. They wandered for many years – first as they fled the British, then as they looked for a new place to set down roots. What they were looking for was another Acadie – rich farming land on the sea and a place to conserve their religion (Catholicism) and their language (French).
They eventually made their home in Caraquet in Gloucester County in northwestern New Brunswick. This is an overview of their years wandering eastern Canada as internally displaced refugees.
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Index: Historical Documents
Historical Document: Clement Dassylva & Marie Blais – Marriage, 1871
Historical Document: Pedro Dasslyva – Burial, 1717
Historical Document: Marmaduke Lawrence Harvey – Baptism, 1897
Historical Document: Louis Francois Lagace & Mathilda Boudreau – Marriage, 1830
Historical Document: Joseph Lagace m. Emma St-Hilaire, 1885 (French Canadians)
Historical Document: George Lewis & Clementine Desilva – Marriage, 1896
Historical Document: Philippe Luce & Anne Ward – Marriage, 1863
Historical Document: Michel Megne & Angelique Thibault, Marriage, 1705
Historical Document: Andre Meigne & Jacquette Michel – Marriage, 1668
Historical Document: Basil Megnier & Catherine Dube – Marriage, 1779
Historical Document: Michel Migne & Marguerite Pelletier, Marriage, 1736
Historical Document: Louis Minie dit Lagace & Magdelaine Leveque – Marriage, 1805
Historical Document: Theriault m. Boudreau, 1827, Caraquet (Acadians)
Historical Document: Theriault, Gregoire, burial, 1879 (Acadian)
Evelyn’s Picks: Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home
Today I’m starting a new series called “Evelyn’s Picks” where I’ll be sharing my favourite personal sites about topics like Acadian and French-Canadian genealogy, family and local histories, vintage postcards and finally the art and science of genea-blogging!
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My first pick is easy - it’s Lucie LeBlanc Consentino’s ”Acadian and French-Canadian Ancestral Home”.
Here’s why everyone should have this site bookmarked:
- Theme Unlike most personal sites (such as mine) LeBlanc Consentino’s site is not organized around certain surnames but rather around the whole topic of Acadia and Acadians. This – together with the breadth and depth of her information – makes it a terrific one-stop destination for everything Acadian!
- Collaboration Although it’s a personal site, LeBlanc Consentino has built many relationships over the years with researchers who have contributed authoritative articles on a wide range of topics. LeBlanc Consentino has also fostered, and provided a home for, several projects (e.g. cemetery photos and indexing) that allow amateur family researchers to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.
- Usefulness I find it particularly useful to 2 groups of people: English-speakers and beginners. To English-speakers because of the Acadian primary material translated from the original French and to beginners because they get a good overview but also because they glean articles for effective search terms to use in further research.
- Effective Use of Technology LeBlanc Consentino’s site has been around for almost a decade – ancient in computing terms! She’s mastered the art of website design but also administers a RootsWeb Mailing List and even has her own blog!
You can see her work at the following sites:
Vintage Postcard: Ste-Anne-du-Bocage
Ste-Anne-du-Bocage is on the outskirts of Caraquet, New Brunswick and
is the site of the historic cemetery of the first settlers of Caraquet.
Detail: Farmhouse with laundry whipping in the wind.
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Early Acadian Pioneers of Caraquet, New Brunswick
Olivier Blanchard & Catherine Admirault dit Mirau
Joseph Boudreau & Marie-Jeanne Hache
Jean Caissie & Marie-Heloise Corbet (wife non-Acadian)
Joseph Chiasson & Anne Hache
David Comeau & Olive Young (wife non-Acadian) Read more »
Vintage Postcards: The Kon Tiki, Montreal
When I was growing up in Quebec in the early 1960s there were two really special vacation destinations – Paris and Hawaii. Neither my parents, nor most of my friends’ parents, had even been on an airplane for a vacation and Paris and Hawaii were very far away and very expensive.
My mother longed to visit Hawaii - the exotic Hawaii of hula dancers and beaches that she’d seen in the movies. This was before Expo 67 and Montrealers hadn’t been very exposed to foreign cultures so Hawaii seemed exceptionally strange and exciting.
She never did realize her dream of going to Hawaii but she did get the next best thing – the Montreal Kon Tiki. She used to go about once a year and it was always a very special occasion.
I remember her telling me that once you stepped through the doors you were plunged into a Polynesian world of wood and jungle plants and rich fruity drinks decorated with miniature umbrellas. These drinks became all the rage in surburbia where they were imitated for all our backyard and basement parties.
The drinks also came with swizzle sticks and my mother would bring these home as souvenirs. She used to stand them in a decorative container on our home bar as a conversation piece to represent all the different restaurants and clubs that she and my father had visited.
Before writing his piece I “googled” the Kon Tiki and found out that the fascination with all things Polynesian was a North-America wide phenomena! You can find out more about tikis at: Critiki
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Riviere-Ouelle Virtual Field Trip: Pt.5/5
If you drive along the St-Lawrence River today you can still see the way the land was originally distributed under the seigneurial system. The first settlers were allotted long strips of land set up in such a way that each farmer had access to river frontage. In the earliest days of la Nouvelle France (New France) the river was the quickest way of transport and was also an important source of food.
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Map of Land Grants – Seigneury La Pocatiere
Mignier dit Lagaces – French Canadians
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