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L.A.Childress, WOW and double WOW to your quote “they didn't have "pioneers" in Canada.”
I have no idea what Jean Cote you are referring to. My report is about Jean Cote that married Anne Martin on 17 Nov 1634 at Notre Dame de Québec City.
Please guide me to the “Jesuit Relations” that talk specifically about your Jean Cote and not just someone in general.
Quebec City was founded in 1608 by Champlain, before my ancestor Jean Cote was born or at best when he was a little boy. Below is a web site stating, when Quebec City was founded. For you to say that “there was no ‘Quebec’ city when Jean Cote was alive” tells me for sure that your information is wrong or that you are talking about another Jean Cote that died before 1608.
The information about Jean’s wife Anne Martin’s father being Abraha Martin dit l’Eccossais came from Tanguay and has been corrected by Jette and many other Canadian genealogists. You should correct your information as well and not insist that you are right when there is no proof. Abraham would have been about 14 years old when Jean Cote’s wife Anne Martin was born. Abraha Martin dit l’Eccossais did have a daughter named Anne Martin and she was born in 1645.
His daughter married Jacques Rate not Jean Cote.
About Jean Cote’s wife: "Filles à Marier", page 218, Anne Martin was born about in 1603, though her origins in France and her parents' names are unknown. She may be the daughter of Galleran (or Gontrand) Martin, who died a widower at Beauport on 27 October 1662 at age 84. Anne appears to have arrived in New France in 1634, possibly on the same ship that brought her husband.
Anne Martin's father was assumed to be Abraham Martin by Tanguay. The
error was corrected long ago, but some individuals persist in quoting
Tanguay even though there is no documentary proof. Very simply, the parents
and origins of Anne Martin and her husband, Jean Coté, are unknown.
For you, I Googled “Quebec City” & “Quebec pioneers” and came up with thousands of articles. Below are some of many that CANADIANS make reference to the “PIONEERS” of Canada. It is not a word that is used only in the USA as you inferred.
I am from the USA and my 8 great grand parents where all born in the Province of Quebec. All their ancestors were “Pioneers” of New France. I have been reading (in French & English) about the history of my ancestors and their great country for over 10 years.
Please notice that all the articles below and thousands more were written by Canadians and they refer to their Canadian settlers as “pioneers”. The dictionary defines “Pioneer” as “one who goes before to prepare the way for another, as a settler in a frontier country”. It is not limited to the USA as you suggested.
You are simply wrong when you say: "Pioneer" is a word used in the USA, am I correct in assuming you are from the USA? Well they didn't have "pioneers" in Canada.”
Salut, Janet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Quebec_City
Quebec City was founded on July 3, 1608 by Samuel de Champlain. Champlain named his settlement after a local native word meaning “the river narrows here.” Champlain's settlement was located at the foot of Cap Diamant, the peninsula on which Old Quebec lies today). The French settlement was at first sparsely inhabited and served mostly as a base for fur trading and missionaries. In 1615, the first missionaries, the Recollets, arrived in the city. From 1629 to 1632, the city briefly passed into possession of the English. The Jesuits arrived in 1635 and the Ursulines and Augustines in 1639. In 1636, Charles Hualt de Montmagny became the settlement’s governor, who presided over expansion of the settlement and construction of its first church, Notre Dame de la Paix (Our Lady of Peace.) Surrounding the settlement were various parcels of farm land. By 1663, the year during which Quebec became the capital city of New France
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/quebec_city
Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec, or simply Québec) ( or ) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second largest city in the province, after Montreal. Quebec City is about away from Montreal. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only remaining fortified city walls in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec". It is also one of the oldest cities in North America (founded in 1608)... full article at wikipedia
http://www.milton.k12.vt.us/webquests/SChristensen/quebec_webquest.htm
The Voyageurs of Quebec were the first of many immigrants to Canada. These hardy pioneers came from France to live, hunt, and tame the forests and streams of a new world. To these French speaking immigrants, they were seeking to create a "New France", just like English colonists were seeking to create a "New England."
These pioneers met many hardships such as hostile Indians, famine, and every conceivable danger that nature could throw at them. The Saint Lawrence River (St. Laurent in French) was the key to settling this new region of North America. "Quebecois" (French speaking pioneers and trappers) relied on the St. Lawrence and its tributaries to provide access to the rich interior of Quebec. Hunting beaver, fox, and other animals for their furs, these voyageurs traveled deeper into the region. In the process, the voyageurs helped develop a unique and different culture than the rest of North America. This culture was predominantly a French speaking, Catholic, and rural population that eventually was forced to survive in an increasing sea of Anglophones (English speakers
http://www.museocapitale.qc.ca/014a.htm
The Ursulines arrived in Quebec city in 1639, where they founded the first school for girls in North America. The museum illustrates the life and work of these women pioneers, teachers and artists.
http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/quebec/resources/602501.htm
BOOK - Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662
by: Peter J. Gagné
Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Québec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King’s treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles à Marier or “marriageable girls,” they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World.
http://www.acadian-home.org/kings-daughters-1.html
There once was a poet who by influencing public opinion cast a dark shadow over the role of those young women who known as the King's Daughter/Les Filles du Roi. These women actually came to New France as pioneers to an unknown world where the waters had not yet been chartered. This poet, with the sway of public opinion, claimed these young women were "comfort women" for the soldiers and first pioneers who had come to people a new country. Well nothing could have been further from the truth! In fact, there were indeed witnesses to the arrival and marriages of these women who affirmed the very high moral standards of these pioneering women. These same witnesses rejected without all allegations of improprieties on the part of these women.
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