Destination Madawaska : Biographie de Charles Terrieau, pionnier acadien

Destination Madawaska : Biographie de Charles Terrieau, pionnier acadien

Biography of Charles Terrieau, Acadian Settler

From the author: "The book is a biography of Charles Theriault, first francophone settler in 1821-1823 of the lower Madawaska River in present-day St-Jacques. The book presents a brief history of the Acadian migration before the time of Charles’ trail-blazing in the wilderness of the Madawaska territory. The territory at that time was a ‘no-man’s land’ that included much of northern Maine from Houlton and all of Madawaska county and parts of Victoria and Restigouche counties of northwestern New Brunswick. At that time, the territory was claimed by the United States as being part of the new state of Maine and was also claimed by England as being part of the new colony of New Brunswick. The dispute was settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 which chose the St-John River as the international boundary separating the United States and New Brunswick. The book presents the genealogy of the greater Thériault family in the St-John Valley showing that the population of all Thériaults until 1900 came from three branches of the Acadian family; one which migrated from the lower St-John to St-Basile around 1790 and two branches which had migrated from Acadia to Kamouraska, QC in 1759 and later migrated to the various Madawaska settlements between 1820 and 1860."

Thériault, J.R.T.

Société Historique du Madawaska

2009

Bilingual/bilingue

Book

None

17th century - 19th century, New Brunswick

No

Bilingual/bilingue

111

Edmundston, New Brunswick