The Genealogy and Family History of William Alexandre McKenzie from Riviere Du Loup
The Genealogy and Family History of William Alexandre McKenzie from Riviere Du Loup

Author: Gerald Wildrey McKenzie

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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William Alexandre McKenzie was born in Riviere du Loup, Quebec, Canada on August 5, 1841, son of William Ord McKenzie and Henriette Ouellet. William and Thecle Lavoie, daughter of Isaac Lavoie and Mathilde Bouchard from Riviere du Loup were married September 23, 1860. They entered the United States from Canada on October 5, 1879. They are listed in 1880 census of Salem, Massachusetts. Their children were William Jr., Alfred Wildry, Joseph or Albert who died, Amanda, Elise, and Marie. William never married. Alfred Wildry married Tharsile Lebel and had 14 children, Amanda married Pierre Felix Horace Lebel and raised 12 children. Elise married Newlson Gagnon and had 6 children. Marie married Maurice Reason and raised 12 children. William Alexandre died in 1914. Both he and Theacle are buried in Salem. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Arizona and elsewhere.

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Author: John Mack Faragher

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2006-02-17

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0393242439

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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

The North West Company
The North West Company

Author: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 178912199X

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In 1779 a group of independent fur traders from Montreal banded together to form the North West Company; this was a trading expedient and no one could have foreseen its brilliant and far-reaching results. Before the North West Company name disappeared in a merger with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 it had spanned the continent, reached the Arctic, and traded round the Horn to China. Many of the great rivers and lakes of the North and West carry the names of the company’s servants as the only memorial so far accorded them: Pond, Frobisher, Mackenzie, Thompson and Fraser are merely the best remembered of perhaps the most remarkable group of associates that Canada has seen. “...accurate, magnificently organized, sparely written...one of the finest works of Canadian history I have ever read...These men have the most marvellous characters who ever founded and operated a business enterprise in North America.”—Hugh MacLennan, award-winning Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University

Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776
Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776

Author: François Baby

Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775-1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants (les habitants) who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the "fourteenth colony." After American forces were expelled from Quebec in early 1776, the British governor, Sir Guy Carleton, sent three trusted envoys to discover who had collaborated with the rebels from the south. They traveled to fifty-six parishes and missions in the Quebec and Trois Rivières district, discharging disloyal militia officers and replacing them with faithful subjects. They prepared a report on each parish, revealing actions taken to support the Americans or the king. Baby and his colleagues documented a wide range of responses. Some habitants enlisted with the Americans; others supplied them with food, firewood, and transportation. Some habitants refused to cooperate with the king's soldiers. In some parishes, women were the Americans' most zealous supporters. Overall, the Baby Journal clearly reveals that the habitants played an important, but often overlooked, role in the American invasion.