Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Index - Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

"Grand Portage" by CW Jeffreys

Presentation for the French-Canadian Heritage Society of California
October 27, 2019

La Prairie Voyageurs and the Fur Trade

Discovering my Voyageur Legacy

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 1 - INTRODUCTION

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 2 - LA PRAIRIE DE LA MAGDELEINE

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 3 - VOYAGEURS OR COUREURS DES BOIS

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 4 - VOYAGEURS AND THEIR CANOES

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 5 - LA PRAIRIE VOYAGEUR GRANDFATHERS

Presentation for the FCHSC - Part 6 - A FEW MORE INTERESTING VOYAGEUR RELATIVES


BOOK I

Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

Introduction, Contents and Chapter One - La Prairie

Chapter Two - Our Earliest Fur Trade Ancestors

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Barrette Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Bourassa Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Boyer Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Deneau Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Diel Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Dupuis Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Duquet Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Gagne Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Leber Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Lemieux Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Migner dit Lagacé Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Perras Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Pinsonneau Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Poupart Family

Chapter Three - La Prairie's Vielle Family

Chapter Four, Voyageur Families of Trois-Rivières and Quebec

Chapter Four, Quebec's Amiot Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Beauchamp Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Cloutier Family & Jean Mignault dit Chatillon

Chapter Four, Quebec's Cusson Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Dardenne Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Desroches Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Godefroy Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Godet Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Miville Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Moreau Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Nepveu Family & Denise Sevestre

Chapter Four, Quebec's Picard Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Rivet Family

Chapter Four, Quebec's Sedilot Family

Chapter Five, Miscellaneous Fur Trade Ancestors

Chapter Six - Ancestors in 1600s Fur Trade Timeline

Chapter Six - Ancestors 1700s Fur Trade Timeline

Chapter Seven, French Canadian Heritage of Lucy Pinsonneau

Appendix One - French Era Fur Trade Forts, Posts and Depots

About the Author

Bibliography

Endnotes (for back cover)

END OF BOOK I -- 240 printable pages


BOOK II

“Voyageur Grandfathers”

Index Voyageur Grandfathers — La Prairie, Trois-Rivières and Quebec

Jean Cusson — Voyageur Grandfather

Antoine Jacques Boyer — Voyageur Grandfather

Charles Boyer — Voyageur Grandfather

François Bourassa — Voyageur Grandfather

Pierre Barette dit Courville — Voyageur Grandfather

Jacques Deneau dit Destaillis — Voyageur Grandfather

Francois Dupuis -- Voyageur Grandfather

Jean Baptiste Desroches — Voyageur Grandfather

Gabriel Lemieux — Voyageur Grandfather

Pierre Poupart — Voyageur Grandfather

Charles Diel dit Le Petit Breton — Voyageur Grandfather

Guillaume Barrette dit Courville -- Voyageur Grandfather

Jacques Hugues Picard dit Lafortune — Voyageur Grandfather

Jean Baptiste Moreau — Voyageur Grandfather

Charles Diel, fils — Voyageur Grandfather

Etienne Duquet dit Desrochers — Voyageur Grandfather

Gabriel Lemieux — Voyageur Grandfather

Francois Moise Dupuis — Voyageur Grandfather

Joseph Poupart — Voyageur Grandfather

Joseph Pinsonneau — Voyageur Grandfather

Jean-Baptiste Meunier dit Lagace (père) — Voyageur Grandfather

Gabriel Pinsonneau — Voyageur Grandfather

Jean-Baptiste Meunier Lagacé — Voyageur Grandfather


Voyageur Clothing and Accoutrements

Creating the Perfect Voyageur Costume

French Canadian Voyageurs — Red Sash

Voyageurs Moccasins — Souliers De Boeuf

French Coureurs des Bois, Voyageurs and Tattooing

Tasse à canot de voyageurs - Voyageurs canoe cup

Not All Tomahawks Were Created Equal

Did French-Canadian Voyageurs Carry Firearms?

Voyageurs, Coureurs des Bois and Their Knives


Miscellaneous ancestors, relatives and more anecdotes

New Found La Prairie Voyageur Ancestors (AFT March 11, 2017)

Homage To My LaPrairie Voyageur Ancestors (includes voygeur contracts)

Still More La Prairie Voyageur Ancestors (AFT March 11, 2017)

Narcisse Roy (1765-1814) Montreal Fur Trade Silversmith

Eastern Woodlands Indian Mocotaugan or Crooked Knife

A Canoe Load of French-Canadian Ancestors

Francois Bourassa's 1686, voyage to Hudson Bay for the Compagnie du Nord

Philippe Foubert voyageur for the Compagnie des Habitants, 1649

More Fascinating Ancestors from the Fur Trade Era of New France

Our La Prairie Voyageurs with Explorer Nicolas Perrot

Jean Baptiste Moreau and the Compagnie de la Colonie du Canada

Paschal Pinsonneau - Fur-trader, and interpreter with the Kickapoo Indian Nation

Pascal Pinsonneau, Canadian Convict Sent to Australia

Hendrick Christiansen, Great-Grandfather of LaPrairie Voyageurs?

Re-examining the History of La Prairie-de-la-Madeleine.

Jacques Deniau dit Destaillis accused of illegally selling brandy to savages

Genealogy Roadtrip to Voyageurs National Park

Genealogy Roadtrip to Voyageurs National Park - Part II

Genealogy Roadtrip to Voyageurs National Park - Part III

Genealogy Roadtrip to Voyageurs National Park - Part IV

Timeline of my French-Canadian Great-Grandfathers in the Fur Trade

ARE WE RELATED TO RENÉ-ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE

THE LEGAL COMPLAINT OF GABRIEL DE LA FOREST

So you think you have a Voyageur in the family tree, eh?

René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle Sells Property to Le Ber & Le Moyne Trading Post Partners

Voyageurs and Their Canoes

SORTING OUT CHARLES BOYER — VOYAGEUR ANCESTOR

OUR EARLIEST LA PRAIRIE ANCESTORS — LIVED IN AN IROQUOIS LONGHOUSE

Timeline of my French-Canadian Great-Grandfathers in the Fur Trade

Confessions of an Obsessive Compulsive Genealogist

GENERAL BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT, A PAINTING BY EDWIN WILLARD DEMING

Fort Michilimackinac, 18th-century French fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac

Uncle Jean Tavernier dit Laforest — Killed in the Battle of Long Sault

King Charles II and the Hudson’s Bay Company

OUR WYNGAERT FAMILY OF DUTCH FUR TRADERS

Antoine Robidoux - Santa Fe based Mountain Man and Fur Trader

Joseph Robidoux and our ever deepening web of fur traders

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE GENEALOGY AND JOSEPH PARSONS FUR TRADER

AN INTERESTING NEW NETHERLAND LAND PURCHASE BY JAN FRANSSE VAN HOESEN (1608–1665) OUR 9TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER

Eyewitness to the Death of Crazy Horse — Charles Roubideaux

For Mary, Many Days WHITE CLOUD — All Roads Lead Back to La Prairie

André Robidou dit L’Espagnol — Voyageur from Spain

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANCESTOR AND RELATIVE

UNDERSTANDING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FUR TRADE

My Pioneer Ancestors of Quebec — They Arrived Before 1637

UNDERSTANDING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FUR TRADE

Aunt Francoise Duquet married well, and her brothers benefited

Forerunners of the Coureur Des Bois — Indian Interpreters in New France and Beyond

Robidoux Family - Beaver Pelts to Buffalo Robes and Beyond


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