With our family it was about as much in the middle of New Brunswick as you can get, Doketown, NB. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?addtohistory=&country=CA&address=&city=doketown&state=nb&zipcode=&historyid=&submit.x=42&submit.y=7
Nice little town. My ancestor Daniel Ephram Lyons and his family settled there after they were kicked out of the US right after the revolution, for being loyalists. larry >St Augustin it was. Logical landing place if you look at a map. > >http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?addtohistory=&country=CA&address=&city=st+augustin&state=&zipcode=&submit.x=50&submit.y=16 > >Dana > >Dana Tierney writes: > >> no, that wasn't it. St something, Augustin? . I'd have to look it up. But >> in both versions of family history the immigrant ancestor came very very >> early. 1630? (There are two versions and since both were done by non-French >> speaking relatives I don't know which to believe. And I haven't had time >> yet to get nitty-gritty about looking into it myself) >> >> Dana >> >> Larry C. Lyons writes: >> >> > Last weekend we visited the Jeanie Johnson, a replica of an 1847 >> > packet ship that carried immigrants from Ireland to the US and >> > Canada. A real interesting time.One of the interesting diplays on >> > the ship were records about passengers and where they ended up - >> > Canada/Quebec or Baltimore, MD. Anyhow chances are your ancestors, >> > if going to Canada, probably went to Mirmache or Grosse Isle first - >> > these served the same purpose as Ellis Island did in the US. >> > >> > larry >> > >> > >I am sure that is *exactly* what happened -- I have been doing a little >> > >geneology and the north shore way out east is where the ships landed. I >> > >forget the name of the town where my people landed but its some tiny blip >> > >on the map I had never heard of before or since. Mind you, my >>family moved >> > >to around Joliet, then Assomption, no hillbillies we.... >> > > >> > >Dana >> > > >> > >Larry C. Lyons writes: >> > > >> > >> Exactly. very much like my neighbours when I was living in south west >> > >> Virginia, if your family did not move into this valley before 1820, >> > >> you were a newcomer and your opinion didn't count nohow. I suspected >> > >> in both cases a lot of inbreeding over the years - both with these >> > >> habitants and the hillbillies. >> > >> >> > >> larry >> > >> >> > >> ><g> Their ancestors landed there in the 17th century and >>nobody ever moved >> > >> >:) >> > >> > >> > >> >Dana >> > >> > >> > >> >Larry C. Lyons writes: >> > >> > >> > >> >> They were from places like Shawinnigan and similar very >>small places >> > >> >> on the north shore. Not the brightest of the lot believe me. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> larry >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >not real literate in french either from the sound of it :) >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> >Larry C. Lyons writes: >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> >> >see, listening to Poison *can* be harmful!!! >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> Years ago when I was taking a Canadian Armed Forces >>ground survival >> > >> >> >> course, about half the people in the class were >>francophone (French >> > >> >> >> Canadian). several of them had really terrible >>English language > > > >> >> >> skills. In our ration packs there were some solid >fuel tables for > > > >> >> >> heating food and water. The were plainly labeled in >English Poison. > > > >> >> >> These tables did not have any French on them. I had >to stop a couple >> > >> >> >> of francophone guys from eating these tablets - "But Larry its >> > >> >> >> poisson - fish" >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> go figure. >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> larry >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> -- >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> Larry C. Lyons >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> ======================================================== >> > >> >> >> Life is Complex. It has both real and imaginary parts. >> > >> >> >> ======================================================== >> > >> >> >> Chaos, Panic and Disorder. My work here is done. > > > >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > >> > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
