The French (Canadian) Connection

Rockstar · 05-02-20, 12:03 PM

Who's been to Petit Rocher Canada, whats it like? From internet sources it looks like if you blinked you would miss it when driving through. I was doing more ancestry research and found out that's where my great mother Mary Jane Comeau was from. Once this virus thing blows over I might have to take a road trip.

Méo · 05-02-20, 04:02 PM

Can't help you on that. My only advice would be to make sure to go there in the summer. Because otherwise it can be an hassle, to say the least.

vienna · 05-02-20, 04:08 PM

I'm disappointed;...

...based on the thread title, I thought old Gene Hackman was coming out of retirement to do a film sequel...

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Aktungbby · 05-02-20, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Méo

Can't help you on that. My only advice would be to make sure to go there in the summer. Because otherwise it can be an hassle, to say the least.

That is a damnable lie! Real men from Minnesota go in their speedo swimsuits and pursue les femmes fatales into to the frigid waters...mukluks are optional!

u crank · 05-02-20, 04:58 PM

Petit-Rocher is in the province of New Brunswick and is located on what is called the North Shore in the northeastern part of the province. It's about 150 km as the crow flies from where I live on PEI. People in this part of the world who are of French extraction do not call themselves French Canadian. They are Acadien and if anything would refer to themselves as Francophone if they speak French. French Canadians are from Quebec.

Like any place in the Maritimes the summers are paradise.

Any way as they say in that part of the province ...affects French accent..

"Dere's no shore like de North Shore dat's for shore."

vienna · 05-02-20, 08:07 PM

Now you got Gomez all riled up...

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Rockstar · 05-02-20, 08:50 PM

Well, I guess I got both the Acadian and French Canadian connections covered then. As Mary was from Petit Rocher her husband Charles Renaud was from Montreal.

I've stopped by Montreal and Quebec many times in the early eighties on our way up from Milwaukee to do break-outs for the 12th missile warning group in Greenland. I think I should make a point to visit to Petit-Rocher sometime this year. See if there are any church records or archives to rummage through. Looks really laid back, my kind of pace.

Rockstar · 05-02-20, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

That is a damnable lie! Real men from Minnesota go in their speedo swimsuits and pursue les femmes fatales into to the frigid waters...mukluks are optional!

Oh fer pete's sake that's not even close to being cold, the water isnt even froze over yet! But ya I'd dive right in after those two lovely Minnesotan Twins. After a roll in the snow we could get warm by the fire and have some tots and spam later too!

u crank · 05-03-20, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockstar

I think I should make a point to visit to Petit-Rocher sometime this year. See if there are any church records or archives to rummage through. Looks really laid back, my kind of pace.

You may have good luck with that search as the Catholic church usually keeps very good baptismal records. I have a cousin who was able to trace my Dad's family back five generations to the first guy who landed on PEI back in the late 1700's. He came from the Brittany region in NW France. It's always interesting to see what your ancestors were up to.

I discovered that after my grandfather's first wife died he married a woman twenty years younger than him. They had a big family but he died in 1934 and left my grandmother to raise a family of nine by herself. She was the only grandparent I ever met and got to know. Amazing woman.

Rockstar · 05-03-20, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by u crank

You may have good luck with that search as the Catholic church usually keeps very good baptismal records. I have a cousin who was able to trace my Dad's family back five generations to the first guy who landed on PEI back in the late 1700's. He came from the Brittany region in NW France. It's always interesting to see what your ancestors were up to.

I discovered that after my grandfather's first wife died he married a woman twenty years younger than him. They had a big family but he died in 1934 and left my grandmother to raise a family of nine by herself. She was the only grandparent I ever met and got to know. Amazing woman.

From my dad's side I have a first cousin in Norway that has found and shared a treasure trove of ancestral church records going back to B.C. times. I reckon all that cold weather preserves many things.

Through DNA analyses I've been in touch with other like minded relatives in Sweden and Finland I never knew existed.

But from my mom's French and Prussian side of the family its been very difficult to get information beyond North America. Appears they're not as interested in finding ancestral links which could alert us to each others presence. Additionally for me any information from European sources present language barriers. I'd bet too many of them and their records found themselves in the direct path of two world wars so it makes going forward difficult

I shall endeavor to persevere.

05-02-20, 12:03 PM	#1
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05-02-20, 04:58 PM	#5
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,744 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	Petit-Rocher is in the province of New Brunswick and is located on what is called the North Shore in the northeastern part of the province. It's about 150 km as the crow flies from where I live on PEI. People in this part of the world who are of French extraction do not call themselves French Canadian. They are Acadien and if anything would refer to themselves as Francophone if they speak French. French Canadians are from Quebec. Like any place in the Maritimes the summers are paradise. Any way as they say in that part of the province ...affects French accent.. "Dere's no shore like de North Shore dat's for shore." __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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Méo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Quebec City Posts: 1,153 Downloads: 258 Uploads: 0	Can't help you on that. My only advice would be to make sure to go there in the summer. Because otherwise it can be an hassle, to say the least.

05-02-20, 08:50 PM	#7
Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Well, I guess I got both the Acadian and French Canadian connections covered then. As Mary was from Petit Rocher her husband Charles Renaud was from Montreal. I've stopped by Montreal and Quebec many times in the early eighties on our way up from Milwaukee to do break-outs for the 12th missile warning group in Greenland. I think I should make a point to visit to Petit-Rocher sometime this year. See if there are any church records or archives to rummage through. Looks really laid back, my kind of pace.