Charles-François (Denys) Denys Thibaudière de La Ronde (1802 - 1882)

Born 13 Nov 1802 in Montréal, Bas-Canada

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Died 1882 at about age 79 in Red Rock, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

"'Nipigon Museum The Blog: history of Nipigon, and the Nipigon Museum displays - De Larondes - Louis Denis and Charles F. their history A SCION OF NOBILITY (De Laronde)', by Martin Hunter (19th Century Fur Trader) published 2016: 'About the year 1790 one of the sons of the Duc de St. Simon, Louis De Reuvrey, emigrated from France to Canada. The fur trade being the principal commerce of the country at that time, young de Reuvrey, of De Laronde, (taking his mother’s name) attached himself to the Coureurs des Bois, visiting Quebec at intervals of a year or two.

On one of these returns to civilization he married a French lady of the ancient city and after making one more voyage to the Nor’West, the English Governor granted him an emplacement where St. Rock’s is now built and De Laronde became the official Indian interpreter. However, he did not fill this office very long for in 1797 he moved to where Valleyfield now stands and took up a farm on land belonging to the Seminary of the Sulpicion Order, where he became a Canadian Habitant.

To him and his wife one son was born shortly before their departure from Quebec and in their new home two other boys came into the world and this constituted the De Laronde family in Canada in those days. In the year 1810, after passing through many adventures as a fur trader and Indian fighter, Pere De Laronde died at the early age of forty, and to the widow and small boys was left the care of the farm. The bush instinct soon developed itself in the growing boys. Game and fish abounded in the forests and waters near their home which with the boys’ wonderful aptitude for hunting and trapping precluded any chance of want for substantial food. The mother and the eldest boy attended to the small crops and domestic stock, while the two youngest roamed the forest and fished the waters. But this in time was too restricted a sphere for youths in whose veins their father’s blood flowed and the call of the wild, the Great Unknown, consumed them to be off to its depths...

The widowed mother was loath to see two of her sons leave the home circle, but it had to be. Few mothers can keep their brood about them from the cradle to the grave, and the time had come when these two strong boys wished to see more of the big world in which they lived. In the year 1817 the Nor’West Fur Traders of Montreal were about at the height of their prosperity, reaching out more and more into new territory and establishing new trading posts wherever they considered prospects justified opening such. It was on the 25th of April in that year when Louis Denis ^[1] and Charles De Laronde [aged 16 and 15, respectively] bade their mother and brother good-bye on their departure for Montreal to join the great Fur Company. To cross opposite Valleyfield in their dugout canoe through the swift waters was too risky and furthermore the canoe had to remain for the use of Joseph for fishing purposes...

Where the town of Penetanguishene now stands near the mouth of the Severn River, the Nor’West Company had a post and this was the head place for what was termed the Simco District. When the brigade of canoes debouched out of the French River, one of their number which was laden exclusively for those posts, separated from the others, turning south along the Georgian Bay. The brothers parted here never to meet again; Charles F. Laronde receiving orders to report with his canoe at Severn while his brother continued on with the fleet to be dropped off many days after at Nipigon. In the year 1821, after the Nor’West and Hudson’s Bay Companies had been strenuously opposing each other for many years, the two companies became amalgamated under the name of “The Hudson’s Bay Company”. Positions were offered to all the employees of the former Company, which most of them accepted, among the number the two De Larondes.

It made no difference to them in any way, only the change of name, nor were they removed from the sections in which they were found serving. Louis Denis from serving as a clerk in the Nipigon District rose to be in full charge. He married a native woman of the country by whom he had several children. En passant, I might mention that one of his sons served with distinction through the American Civil War on one of the monitors. This shows how the descendants of men get scattered. Charles, on the contrary, never married and after serving for many years in the Simcoe District, was, on the death of his brother, appointed his successor in charge at Nipigon. He had been there two years when I met him, idolized by his nephews and nieces and all the Indians. Sir Charles was the name under which he was best known, and his full signature of which he was very proud was:- Sir Charles F. De Laronde, Comte de Saint Simon...'"^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Louis V. Denis DelaRonde"
2. ↑ [1]

• "'GÉNÉALOGIE DE LA FAMILLE DENYS Montreal 2014', by Yves Drolet, page 20." [2]

• WikiTree profile Thibaudiere Laronde-1 created through the import of The Sammons Family Tree.ged on Jun 9, 2011 by Steve Sammons. See the Laronde-1 Changes page for the details of edits by Steve and others.

• Source: S2852711167 Repository: #R2852704208 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: [3]

• Repository: R2852704208 [4]

• Drolet, Yves Genealogy of the Denys Family, Montreal 2014