Meet Acadia’s original French Canadian settlers. These Acadian pioneers arrived between 1632 and 1653 and made their mark.
Author: Cate Willis
Explore the life of Marie-Guillemette Hébert, daughter of Louis Hébert, who arrived in Quebec in 1617 and became a founding settler.
Justin Bieber’s family history reveals surprising French Canadian roots dating back to Quebec’s first pioneers
Discover the story of Abraham Martin, a founding settler of Quebec whose name may have inspired the naming of the Plains of Abraham.
Explore the life of Marin Boucher, a mason from Perche, France, who became one of the first pioneers and founding settlers of New France.
Pierre Tremblay is the ancestor of all Tremblays in North America. If you carry the name, learn about the man at the root of your family tree.
Discover which celebrities have surprising ties to French Canadian pioneers and uncover who their ancestors were.
Antoine Cuillerier de Beaubien was an early Detroit settler involved in the fur trade and close with the local Indigenous nations.
John Cornwall was a Loyalist during the American Revolution who, following the war, settled in Essex County, where he became a politician