My 9x g grandfather, Abraham Martin, father of my 8x g grandmother, Marguerite Martin Racine, had the "Plains of Abraham" named after him. The Plains of Abraham is a historic area within The Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Abraham Martin (1589-1664) was a fisherman and river pilot called "The Scot" or "The Scotsman". He moved to Quebec City in 1635 with his wife Marguerite Langlois Martin and received 32 acres of land divided between the lower town and promontory from the Company of New France. Abraham's name appears in the toponymy of Quebec City at the time of the French regime, the deeds of the 17th and 18th centuries referring to the coast of Abraham, and a 1734 plan even precisely locating an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the "Heights of Abraham", as did the diaries of British soldiers, who also employed the phrase "Plains of Abraham" .
My grandmother, Victoria Henriette Racine Magnan (1880-1959) is my link to this ancestor.
