To facilitate the narrative of these settlers, better than 400 families or single adults who were born in the old world and died in the new, they have been categorized under the circumstances of their emigration.
This site is simply a glimpse at what colonial New France was about through the lives of my ancestors.
The tabs on the left will take you anywhere in the story, or the index to a particular subject.
- First, early adventurers such of Louis Hébert who arrived in 1617 and Jean Nicolet in 1618...
- The stalwart group of settlers from the Perche area of Normandy sometimes referred to as the Percheron Immigration.
- The Carignan soldiers.
- The women who arrived alone as Filles du roi or Filles à mariés.
- The Acadians, whose experience was different from the Québecois, but who are nevertheless part of my family's history.
- Lizotte ancestors.
- Cameron/Camirand ancestors.
