Francis CHABOT and Mary A. LACHAPELLE
Sharbot Lake, Upper Canada (Ontario)
March 17, 2006:
Hi Al,
My Great grandparents were married in Arnprior in 1871.........Mary "Adeline" Chabot
and Joseph (Dion) Young...... He was from Quebec and she was born in Merrickville,
Ontario in 1850, her parents were Francis Chabot and "Mary" A Lachepelle.....both said
to be from Quebec.......We are trying to find out what Tribe our ancestors were from
We have heard Cree or Métis but no one knows for sure, we have not been able to go
back any farther than Francis Chabot b abt 1806 Quebec......or wife Mary Lachepelle b
about 1826 Quebec......
In 1871 census for Arnprior this couple are listed as Shabbott....but on the marriage
bans for the RC church for Joseph Dion commonly called Young and Adeline Chabot it says
Chabotte.......
Do you know of anyone doing Chabot genealogy or Lachapelle or any way i can find out
our Indian Heritage? Any help would be greatly appreciated.....I will forward my
Great-Great Grandparents photo this might help in some way???
Thank You for your time.....
Deb Armstrong
E-mail: deb_and_les@sympatico.ca
Mary A. Lachapelle and Francis Chabot
January 27, 2008: (new names for photograph)
Joseph Chabot and wife Elmire Dumais
Note: There were several Chabot families in the Maniwaki area in the 1800's.
Jean Baptiste Chabot was the Chief of the Kitigan Zibi Algonquin Band from 1920-27.
May 27, 2006:
Bonjour
Mon nom est Claude Chabot retraité
Depuis plusieurs années je monte dans un programme de généalogie une banque de
données sur les Chabot
Cette banque dépasse les 12000 Chabot tous reliés à Mathurin Chabot le premier
arrivant ce qui touche près de 40000 personnes
Et j'ai aussi près de 3000 photos avec différents dossiers de différentes
branches de Chabot
Je cherche des informations sur l'ascendance des Chabot à la Réserve de Maniwaki
J'ai trouvé sur internet un rapport qui parlait du Chef Indien John-B Chabot de
1920-1924 et de 1939-1951 Mais malheureusement rien sur ses parents
Aussi on parle du Joueur de Hockey John David Chabot maintenant entraineur et
de son fils aussi joueur de Hockey
On parle de Jean Chabot aussi joueur de hockey pour les Moose head d'Halifax
Aussi j'ai retrouvé dans le recensement de 1911
Un Albert Chabot et une Annie (algonquin à Maniwaki)
Né en Oct 1865
Enfants
Jimmie
Ann
Frank
Evelynn
Mary
Patrick
Alexander
Dans un autre répertoire à l'université Laval (ici je me pose des questions sur
le raprochement qu'on peut faire)
Norbert (Abert) Chabot et Annie Witeduck / Whiteduck
Enfant
James (Jimmie) marié le 20/03/1930 Louise Robillard
Enfant
Albert et Denise Piché (toujours à Maniwaki)
Si vous ou une autre personne pourrais m'aider j'en serais très heureux
Mon but laissé ce travail au Archive par le suite considérant qu'il n'y a pas
encore d'association de la famille Chabot.
Salutation
Claude Chabot
August 8, 2007:
The Sharbot Lake Historical Walking Tour brochure published by the Oso Township
Historical Society (Frontenac County, Ontario) states, on the back infolded cover:
(picture below): "Sharbot Lake was named after Mary and Francis Sharbot(above),
aboriginal people who came here from Lake of Two Mountains, near Montreal in the
1840s." The photo above shows a couple in their 30's or 40's who may very well
be the same people in the picture of a much older couple presented by Deb Armstrong.
I will scan this picture and attach it to this E-Mail.
Also, the current National news has been citing news lately about the Ardoch
Algonquin First Nation and Shabot Obadjiwa First Nation protesting uranium
exploration near Sharbot Lake. The Algonquins are not status Indians because
they never surrendered their land and are presently claiming much of Eastern
Ontario, including Parliament Hill in Ottawa. There are Reserves in Maniwaki,
Québec and also at Golden Lake, in Ontario. In those days, there was much inter-racial
marriages between single French settlers and Indian maidens.
My guess is (and this only a guess!) that Francis Chabot a.k.a. Chabotte, Shabotte,
Shabot, Sharbot came back to live in the land of his ancestors early in the
19th century.
... Jean-Claude Dubé
October 16, 2007:
Hello Al
By pure coincidence, I came upon the following site tonight. It is a reaffirmation,
though not a confirmation, of a previous comment of mine about the possible
relationship between Francis Chabot and Sharbot Lake. The picture is most interesting.
http://www.slpoa.ca/FoundingFamilies.asp
Jean-Claude Dubé
November 14, 2007:
Hello, I am helping my grandmother find information about her mother who was native
and was born in Whitney and lived at Golden Lake Reserve. I am having a little
difficulty in finding information. I was wondering if you would know how I would go
about finding information abut Mary Anne Sharbot. Mary Anne's parents were Frank or
Frances Sharbot and her mother was Lavallee (not sure of the proper spelling and so
not know her first name).
She was born around 1898 or 88 and married Nathaniel Dunn in Renfrew.
It is believed that Mary Anne sat on a council either Golden Lake Reserve or
Sharbot Lake reserve?
I don't know if you can help me.
Thank you so much and any information or guidance is greatly appreciated.
... Cheryl
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Hello Cheryl
Are you part of the "The Magically Hip" magician performers from Toronto?
I believe that Mary Anne Sharbot's parents were Francis Chabot and Mary Ann Lachapelle.
They were Metis Indians from Lake of Two Mountains (OKA), north of Montreal. The
Oka reserve combined descendants of Algonquins who were chased out of eastern
Ontario by the Iroquois and Mohawk Indians who were descendants of the same Iroquois.
There are Algonquin reserves in Golden Lake (Lac Doré), Ontario and in Maniwaki,
Quebec (Kitigan Zibi). The family name, Chabot, has been anglicized and mis-spelt
Chabott, Shabotte, and Sharbot.
If you look up the Bytown or Bust site http://www.bytown.net , and search for Chabot
and also Sharbot, you will find interesting bits of information.
However, if you google search Algonquin sites such as Sharbot Obaadjiwan and Kitigan
Zibi, I am sure that you will find lots of references to Sharbot and Chabot. I would
surmise that they would probably be descendents of your grand-mother's siblings and
cousins.
If you live in Toronto, checking out the Genealogy Dept. at the Young & Bloor Library
would also be a good start.
Let me know how you make out. Genealogy is a passionate pastime. There is never any
end to it.
I have a mild interest in the Algonquin Indians and the Chabot families. I would like
to know more about their relationship to the lumber industry that mushroomed in
Eastern Ontario in the 19th Century while depriving them of their ancestral hunting
and fishing land. Algonquin Park, Whitney, and Renfrew are all parts of that lumbering
mosaic.
... Jean-Claude Dubé
November 16, 2007:
Thanks, as usual, to Sue, for the following:
Found in censuses and in the Ontario BMD's
1901 Airey, Nipissing, Ontario census
Chabot, Frank, 30, born 4 May Ontario
Marianne, 29,
Mary, 13, born 3 March
Lizzie, 8, born 1 March
Susan, 7, born April
Marianne, 4, born 15 May
Alexander, 1, born June
Lavalle, William, 32, single
Note: no birthyears given - all born in Ontario
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1911 Airey, Nipissing census
Chabot, Mary, Feb 1873, now a widow Chabot, Mary, Dec 1897
Chabot, Alexander, June 1899
Next door is Dinnie (?) & Josephine Lavelly. Everyone is Algonquin and Roman Catholic.
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Registered birth:
Susan Chabot, born 20 June 1895 in Renfrew county, Ontario. Parents are Francis Chabot
and Mary Lavalle
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Registered marriages:
Chabotte, Mary, 20, daughter of Frank Chabotte and Mary Ann Lavallie married 14
September 1908 in Whitney, Nipissing, David Bowers, 22, son of David and Sarah Bowers.
Dunn, Nathaniel, 25, son of Francis William Dunn and Catherine Hannah Cowan, married
in Whitney, Nipissingon 8 June 1914, Mary Ann Sharbot, aged 16 years and 9 months
(mother had to give consent because of her young age), daughter of Francis Sharbot
and Mary Anne Lavalie
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Deaths:
Chabot, Frank, born 1 May 1869 in Ontario, died 14 March 1911 in Whitney.
Occupation butcher. Married. Name of parents: Peter Chabot (born in Quebec) and
Mary Chaminiginish (born in Quebec). Certified by Philomene Lamable of Whitney.
Note: In the 1881 Ste-Bernard, Dorchester, Quebec census, there is a Pierre Chabot,
44, and wife Emile, 38. Of their 7 children, one is named Francois Chabot, aged 12,
born Quebec. This is the only Frank, Francis, Francois I can find in the 1881 who
has a father named Peter (Pierre).
There is also a death registration for a Nathian Dunn in Whitney, Nipissing on the
25th of Sepetmeber 1919. He is married and his age was given of 31 years and born
at Palmer Rapids, but whoever made the return gave his father's name (rightly or
wrongly) as John Dunn.
Hope this helps out,
... Sue
November 20, 2007:
Thank you Sue
On Ancestry.ca, I also found:
Mary Ann Sharbot, age 17, born abt 1897 daughter of Francis Sharbot and Mary Anne
Lavalie married Nathaliel Dunn, age 25, born abt 1885, son of Francis William Dunn and
Catherine H. Cowan, on June 8, 1914, in Renfrew County
and
Mary Ann Sharbot nee Lavallee age 40 born abt 1874 married Ignace L'Amable, age 26,
born abt 1888 in Golden Lake, son of Ignace L'Amable and Maud Defoe, on Nov 23 1914,
in Nipissing District. (this would have been Mary Ann's (the mother) second mariage
and she got married in the same year as her daughter Mary Ann)
Also, I was at Library and Archives Canada today. There is no record of any
Chabot/Sharbot having been born/baptized or married or died/buried in the Mission of
the Lake of Two Mountains (now Oka). These are the R.C. records. There was one
Lachapelle maiden mariage but it was in the 20th century. Also, the church burnt
down many time. The records of the late 18th Century were retrieved from a second
copy kept by the diocese in Montreal. However, the priest in charge on the
Mission only retranscribed the white French names and neglected the Indian names.
Some of these names may have as many as 20 letters or more and the sons and daughters
do not have either of their parents' name. There is no paternal nor maternal lineage
to follow. This creates a genealogical nightmare. These people may be hard to locate
but I will keep on trying. I read somewhere that they were Mohawks and they may
not have been from Lake of Two Mountains. A possibility is Akwesasne, south of
Cornwall (Ontario-Quebec-New York State). This may be a rough ride.
However, I discovered on a lot of historical information on that Mission and why
the then-Catholic Mohawk Iroquois became Methodist Protestants and English-speaking
and why they and the Algonquins spread out to various reserves and elsewhere in
Ontario and Quebec. It even has a bearing on the Oka crisis of recent memory.
I will write up that story in the near future and submit it to Bytown and Bust.
... Jean-Claude
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Thank you Jean-Claude for your email,
I got my information about my Great-Great Grandparents from Claude Chabot who
wrote a book on the Chabot Genealogy.
I see that Claude is on your email list for Chabot...
.....He was kind enough to look up the information on my ancestors Francois Xavier
Chabot and Odele Maurice "Mary" Lachapelle,who married at St Jerome Terrebone,
Quebec on September 29, 1840.....they had all their children in Ontario area of
Merrickville, Perth.
In their later years they left that area and went to Arnprior Ontario......i
have a photo of them taken on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1890 both are
posted on..... Bytown site.
The only thing that links me to the Sharbot Lake, Sharbots is the photo that
hangs in their town hall.........I say it is my ancestors from Quebec, Francois
and Mary Chabot but they say it is their ancestors from Oka Francois and Mary
Susan ????(unknown last name)but i have tried to work with them to solve this
puzzle and all they tell me they are Algonquin from Oka..........they can not
produce any docments to back up this claim......when i went to Sharbot Lake
this summer i was given a binder to look at, it was full of photo copies of
photos and written and typed information about their Sharbot lineage....BUT
there was not one copy of any legal document in this binder and when i asked
where they got the BMD information from, they told me they research it and
that their Francis and Mary Susan Sharbot were married at OKA again they could
not produce any document of this marriage...no marriage registration.
They refuse to work with me on this matter......i stupidly loaned them the Chabot
Book i purchased from Claude Chabot and i tried to buy another but there is
no more in print at this time.....I have become a member of the Chabot Society
in Quebec and also with Anscestry.com........I just want the truth about my
Chabot lineage and the Sharot lineage from Sharbot Lake.
I want to thank You, Sue, Al and Claude for all the help you have given to me
and other Chabots.........
... deb
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Thank you Deb
This is excellent information and it will save me a heck of a lot of time in
doing the research.
St.Jerome is the name of the Cathedral in the city of Terrebonne, north of Montreal.
Terrebonne, which at that time was the Seigneury of Terrebonne, is situated
on the Milles Iles river, which is a "by-pass" from the Lake of Two Mountains to
the St.Lawrence River downstream from the Island of Montreal. This river was used
by some of the lumber barons of Ottawa and Upper Ottawa area to bypass the Island
of Montreal and thus avoid the Lachine rapids south of it. One of these guys had a
toll "gate" on the river so not everyone was able to use this shortcut. That area
was reasonably populated in the early 19th century while the Lake of Two Mountains
Mission (now Oka, since 1874) was just that: a small mission in the bush in the
middle of nowhere.
I will check out the birth, marriage and death registers of the St.Jerome Cathedral.
Then we should check out the same in Merrickville and Arnprior and then Sharbot Lake.
The towns around Sharbot Lake and Arnprior such as Perth and Renfrew should be
checked out also. Also the Township registers: Sharbot Lake is in Oso Township.
Arnprior is in Perth township.I believe Golden Lake is in Renfrew Township and
north of that, you have Nipissing Township. All of the available census should
be checked out for names, age and residence.
This also explains why I could not find any traces of Chabot and Sharbot in the
Oka registers.
I was starting to think that Francis and Mary were Mohawks but if they came from
Terrebonne, they are likely Algonquins. Also, Mary may not have been a half-breed .
The Francis in the pictures certainly does have aboriginal facial features. And
a picture in Bytown and Bust of four young Sharbot men, some in military uniforms,
certainly is of men belonging to a First Nation.
There are many Chabot in the Maniwaki reserves and I have found information of a
Chabot belonging to the Cree Nation and coming from north of Mosoonee, on James Bay.
Also, there is a location called Chabot on the Grande Ile peninsula south of Plaisance,
on the north side of the Ottawa River, downstream from Ottawa.
The Chabot book should be available for perusal at the Library and Archives Canada
and if not, certainly at the Quebec National Library and Archives.
Depending on your subscription to Ancestry.com, you may have access to the Drouin
Collection that is available though Ancestry.ca. Just about all of the registries
in Quebec and some in Ontario have been digitalized and you may view and print
the original entries in all of these birth(baptism), marriage and death(burial)
registers. Also, Ancestry.com has a lot of equivalent civic information available
on-line for Ontario.
Bye for now. I'll be in touch with you later on this week or next week.
Jean-Claude
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Well Hi there all....
Many thanks to Deb and her friends for helping in our research.
I am Cathie. Here is a brief description of where I fit into the mix of the
Sharbot Family.
My Great Great Grandfather was Chief Fransway ( Francis/Frank ) Sharbot.
Himself and his wife had children, one being Thomas Sharbot who married Cecilia
Antoine, these are my great grandparents. They had children, my Grandaddy was
Cecil Joseph Sharbot, their oldest son.
Please find some attached photos from the family of Sharbots. As well as the
Tombstone at Springtown that I maintain. Also attached, are some logging photos
of my Grandaddy when he worked for Gillies Lumber way back in the day.
Also attached is Cecil and his wife Viola's 50th Wedding Anniversary Photo.
For the record, the Sharbots have always been Mohawks...2 wives have been Algonquin.
... Cathie Duchene-Sharbot
November 22, 2007:
Cecil Chabot of the Gillies Lumber Company, 1937, Algonquin Park
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Hi Cathie, Al, Jean Claude, Cheryl and Sue,
I just got an email from Merrickville Library about my request for
lookups for Chabot..........in 1851 the census for them said they were RC.....
so the Library gave me the web site for the RC Church in Merrickville and
the Parish existed in 1823 and had kept ALL of their Church records in
Shoe boxes.......the information is now being put into a book and will
soon be ready........So i believe we will finally get some answers very
soon about the Chabot/Sharbot families we now seek.......I sent an email
to the Church tonight and hope to get an answer back and i will keep you
informed...............Miracles do happen!!!!!...
Best to All
... deb
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Note: This book will probably contain the names of many of the workers on the
Rideau Canal in about four townships surrounding Merrickville.
... Al
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That's wonderful news Deb! Do you know who is writing up the book? and the name
of the church? There is a very active historical society in Merrickville. They
have monthly meetings with speakers etc. Maybe I could contact someone and drive
down to Merrickville for a meeting and ask around. It's a 45 minutes drive south
of Ottawa. There are some other genealogical records that I would love to gather
up from there.
And Cathie, I have no information to corroborate whether Francis Sharbot was a
Mohawk or an Algonquin. I do have some historical information re conflicts between
Algonquins and Mohawks at the Oka Mission (they were made to split up and establish
their villages on opposite sides of the Mission). I will write that up some day
and submit it to Bytown or Bust. According to Deb's family tree, Francis Sharbot
was born in the Church of St.Martin on Jesus Island, north of the Montreal Island
(named after the Jesuits, not Our Lord!). I'll work on that in one of my next
projects.
And Cheryl, I'll try to tie up the loose strings and create a Sharbot family tree.
I use Brother's Keeper software which is shareware that can be downloaded for free
in a basic form. I can create a Gedcom which I could transfer to anyone of you
(once I get the Family tree set up).
I'm going to sign off till sometime next week. I have to be at work in the AM and
I have some long and busy days ahead.
But keep on sending me e-mails.I will read them in the evenings but I won't be
staying up till 2AM for a while. Eh Deb!
Ciao
Jean-Claude
November 24, 2007:
More great photographs from Cathie Duchene:
February 12, 2008:
Thanks to Deb for the following photograph of The family of Joseph Chabot and
Elmire Dumais. Joseph's parents were Francois Chabot and Odile "Mary" Lachapelle.
Photo taken in Arnprior. Before posting this photo to this page, I edited it
for contrast and brightness.
Deb has supplied the following information regarding the family members:
Hi Al,
What ever photo looks better you can use.........this family Joseph Chabot and
Elmire Dumais had large family and his sister (my Adele/Adeline) Chabot did too...
i have located so many of the different branches now, it is really exciting......
as for the photo...it is up to you if you just want to say Joseph Chabot and Elmire
Dumais or if you want to add all the names..........
in case here are the names:
front row Left...seated Joseph Jr....Edward...Josephe Sr....Harriet...Elmire
back row left...Mary...George...Peter...Jack...William...Frank
Thank You again
...deb
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also posted on February 12, 2008:
The following link leads to a very revealing and informative presentation by
Archaeologist Bill Allen to a Symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society in 2005.
Chief Peter Chabot married Mary, the daughter of Paul Somogneche, Grand High Chief of
the Algonquin and Nipissing.
Paul Somogneche and Peter Chabot were living and farming at Galiairy / Galeairy Lake
and Fransway Chabot was farming at Rock Lake in 1871 and were kicked out (evicted)
when Algonquin Park was formed in 1895.
Please read this attentively. It is most revealing.
However, the age for François (Francis, Fransway) does not coincide with the age in
the 1871 census at Oso Township (Sharbot Lake). Are there two or even three François
Chabot ???
I'll be checking the references at the National Archives when I get a chance.
http://www.ottawaoas.ca/Symposium/Allen.pdf
(A .pdf file titled "Nineteenth Century Aboriginal Farmers of the Madawaska River").
If the link doesn't open for you, e-mail Jean-Claude at jcdube@magma.ca and he will
e-mail a copy of it to you. You need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for download at
http://www.adobe.com ... Al)
... Jean-Claude
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