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Do you know of any people in your area who have some of my families' names? They include Bordelon (my own), Chiasson (spelled a variety of ways), and Benoit. I live in Lafayette, Louisiana.
I know some Benoits in Cornwall near Ottawa/Montreal
Thanks. I'm asking because we're thinking about doing a family history and we know some of our ancestors came from what is now Nova Scotia. While in the Navy, we found out a new sailor was coming onboard named Benoit. I was excited to meet another Cajun. Imagine my surprise that he was from the east coast and he pronounced his family name as Ben noit. I later learned some of the Acadians who were kicked out had to land on the east coast due to sickness and death.
You might have better luck posting in the People Search section, some of the members there are truly amazing as to what they can sometimes unearth ,You might have some trouble with the Benoit name though as its almost as popular as Smith..
Do you know of any people in your area who have some of my families' names? They include Bordelon (my own), Chiasson (spelled a variety of ways), and Benoit. I live in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Coquitlam is a municipality within the Metro Vancouver (formerly GVRD). See map below.
And Coquitlam-Mallairdville is one of its electoral districts, on the north side of Fraser River.
The first French Canadians who settled in what was to become Maillardville crossed Canada all the way from Rockland, Ontario and Hull and Sherbrooke in Quebec. It was the know-how of the French Canadians in the forest industry along with their powerful work ethic that incited Fraser Mills – which was to become the largest saw mill operation in the British Empire – to recruit manpower all the way from Eastern Canada to their logging operations in B.C. For a Quebecer in those days, the offer was very attractive: a steady job, daily wages of $2.50 for a 10- hour work day, 6 days a week. In addition, they were promised access to land for their families to settle, wood for building a house and the freedom to preserve their language. They were even told they could leave their umbrellas behind in Quebec; the weather was so fine in their new homeland! The first contingent of approximately 100 adventurers arrived at the Fraser Mills Station on September 26, 1909, on a train called the “Honeymoon Special” because so many couples got married the night before they left. The group of pioneers was quick to learn what a hard lifestyle awaited them, where everything needed to be built from scratch, but they must have seen the good side too, since very few of them returned back East. On the contrary, the new arrivals encouraged their distant families to come out to join them.
Benoît is a very common surname across French-speaking Canada, including Quebec of course. Chiasson is an Acadian name, found in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada but most common in Acadian parts of Atlantic Canada like SE New Brunswick.
Bordelon sounds like a corruption of Bordeleau, which loosely translated means Edgewater. This is also a common name in Quebec and other francophone parts of Canada.
Do you know of any people in your area who have some of my families' names? They include Bordelon (my own), Chiasson (spelled a variety of ways), and Benoit. I live in Lafayette, Louisiana.
I know some Chiassons in New Brunswick. Benoit I have only ever encountered as a first name.
I know a Chiasson in Vancouver, but I don't know his family history, he could well be of Acadian stock.
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