French Surnames in Early Bytown (1829)



December 21, 2002:

Most of the following men came to Bytown from the seigneuries of Lower Canada to work on the 
building of the Rideau Canal or to establish commercial ventures in the Lowertown /
By Ward area. They are all listed on the McCabe List. They are
some of the earliest folks of French origin in the region.

BRUNETTE, Thomas - from Montreal ML# 55
RAINVILLE, Louis - Montreal ML# 58
GAGNE, Etienne - Montreal ML# 59
AUDETTE, Francois - Lower Canada ML# 294
LEVESQUE, John (Jean) - Lower Canada (possibly Quebec City) ML# 330
DUGAS, Joseph - "a native of Canada" ML# 590

November 10, 2005:
PHILLION / FILION, Paul - "another Canadian" ML# 591 (spelled "PHILLEO")



The early records of Notre Dame church in Lowertown contains a heavy
concentration of the early French families. Also, all of the predominently
Irish-Catholic satellite communities (South Gloucester, Fallowfield and
Corkery), had French families. The Potvin, Albert, Chartrand, Fournier,
Dubreuille (Dubroy) and Besserer folks were all in the Ottawa area by the 1830's
and by mid-century many had married into the Irish Catholic families.
August 30, 2003:
Hello 
 
This site is full of names, not to sure who can use it but I  believe it 
has a lot of dates and places no one knew about:

Tenants on the seigneury of Lac des Deux Montagnes
Records of St. Eustache
Note: There are many folks from St. Eustache recorded in the Notre Dame (Ottawa) records.
 
Cheryl Thomas
E-Mail: cheryl.cat@sympatico.ca

March 21, 2005:
Wayne Laverdure is researching his Laverdure, Ranger, Dupuis, Lavoie and Farrell ancestors.

 April 13, 2006:

Thanks to Monique Brûlé for the following local links to Francophone historical research in
the Bytown area:

Here is the link to the 
Monuments de la francophonie website : http://mondrapeaufranco.ca/fr/
 
You might also want to add a link to the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française : 
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/crccf/index.html. They hold an abundance of research 
material on French Canada, namely the archives for the Institut canadien-français d'Ottawa, 
a literary organisation founded by Joseph-Balzura Turgeon in 1852.

Regards,
Monique Brûlé
Bibliothécaire en chef
Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française du Centre-est                                          
E-mail: Brulem@ceclf.edu.on.ca


 
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