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Quebec Diaspora

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The goal of this page is to collect elements for the future Quebec Diaspora Project 

A project about French-Canadian families who moved to the USA (and sometimes came back) after the Conquest (1763) up to the Great Depression (1930).

This project would help American genealogists connect with their Québécois/French heritage.

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Articles

wikipedia fr
...entre le milieu du xixe siècle et la Grande Dépression des années 1930. Ce mouvement d'émigration fut qualifié à l'époque de « Grande saignée » ou de « Grande hémorragie »
Great bleeding or hemorrhage
wikipedia en

Ohdio

Flags

S.Baraboo used the image of a flag to identify and regroup such profiles.
See Image used by S.Baraboo
My son Vincent and I designed our own.
Inspired from The Franco-American flag, the flag of the Assemblée des francophones du Nord-Est who adopted it in 1983.
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drapeau_français-américain.svg)
Other Franco-American flags
Franco-American flags (U.S.)
New England Franco-Americans, 2 French Communities in Maine (Saint John Valley Franco-Americans, St. John the Baptist Union), Acadians in New England, Midwest Franco-Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drapeau_français-américain.svg

Images

We created this "flag" to be used as a marker for the Québec Diaspora : the French-Canadian who moved to the USA (and sometimes came back) after the Conquest (1763) up to the Great Depression (1930)

Its design is inspired from the Franco-American flag adopted it in 1983 by the Assemblée des francophones du Nord-Est.
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drapeau_français-américain.svg)

Maps

Marianopolis College 1755, 1763, 1774, 1791, 1851, 1912

Stats

From 1840 to 1940 
2,800,000 Canadians, 900,000 from Quebec ...
So more Canadian than Quebecois ????
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/stats/goto-us.htm

Cases

Other wikitreers

Sam Desjardins Beaucoup
Brian Quesnell Quesnell et Beaulieu
Courtney Pratte Beaucoup

Shifting borders

Julien Dubuque (1762-1810) is an interesting case.
Around 1690 Nicolas Perrot discovered lead mines in "Pays des Illinois", on the West bank of the Mississipi river. He showed the Meskwaki people to mine the lead.
Julien, who arrived there around 1785, got permission by the local tribe to mine in 1788.
Being on the West side of the river, this was (since 1762) in Spanish Louisiana, just across the river was the part of the Province of Quebec acquired by Great Britain in 1763 then ceaded to USA in 1783. So he optained a grant by the spanish in 1796 for 189 square miles of land that he named "The Mines of Spain".
Spanish Louisiana was exchanged for a part of Tuscany by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1800 (which remains a secret) until he sold it to the USA in 1803 for 15 millions dollars.
So when Julien died in 1810 his domain was in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Dubuque
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/706/Julien-Dubuque-Monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase

To Ontario

Pascal Priskille Godfrey (1785-1865) son of Jean François Nicolas Geoffroy (1745-1810).
on Ancestry
Joseph Leblanc (1835-)
From St-Pie, Quebec to West Boylston, Massachusetts to Kenora, Ontario

To Manitoba

Joseph Fortier son of (incertain)
Jean-Baptiste Morand (abt.1789-1859) son of Jean-Baptiste Morin (1766-)

To US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_Americans
: King Camp Gillette was born on January 5, 1855, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. (Not from Quebec)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_Americans

To Michigan

Joseph Nelson (Giroux) Geroux (1866-1939) & the Demers brothers Isidore (Demers) DeMars (1861-1943)
Célina (Branchaud) Geroux (1873-1960) & her parents

To Minnesota

Charles Désiré Branchaud (1830-1909) from St-Paulin to Ripley, Morrison, Minnesota.

To Montana

Louis François Robitaille (1857-1912) From St-Jean-de-Matha to Rochester(?), Silver Bow, Montana.

To New Hampshire

Eleonore (Thibodeau) Skilling (1860-) and Joseph Ludger Skelling (1856-1941)

To New York

Leandre Dubuque (abt.1857-1906)
George (Perrotte) Parrott (1835-1922) & Edwige (Arpin) Perrotte (1834-1917)
John Borrie (abt.1835-1907) & Marie Louise Beaudin (1839-)

To Vermont

Jerry (Jérémie) Stone (Boucher dit Desroches) (1834-1909)
Amarelice (Mary Eliza) "Merelise, Mary" Stone aka Boucher dit Desroches (1857-1906)

Back To Quebec

Octave Giroux (1878-1929)
Moïses Robitaille (1867-)
Flag of Quebec
... ... ... migrated from Quebec to United States.
Flag of United States
Antoine Desrosiers (1846-)




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