Marie-Charlotte Saucier

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ALEXANDRE AYOTTE – CHARLOTTE SAUCIER ALEXANDRE AYOTTE (1735 -1808) married CHARLOTTE SAUCIER (1740 -1806) at St. Anne de la Pocatière on May 30, 1761. ALEXANDRE was the son of ZACHARIE AYOTTE and of MARIE-JOSEPHE LEVASSEUR of Kamouraska, where he was born November 28, 1735. CHARLOTTE was the daughter of CHARLES FRANCOIS SAUCIER and of MARIE ROSALIE BOUCHARD of St. Anne de la Pocatière, where she was born November 18, 1740. When ALEXANDRE was a child, his father moved the family from the St. Lawrence to Beaubassin in Acadia. There the father and son shared life with their new Acadian friends. ALEXANDRE was fifteen when the village of Beaubassin was burned to the ground. He was twenty when Fort Beauséjour fell and the family fled to the St. John River, possibly to Grimross. He was 23 when Monckton razed Grimross and the family probably took refuge in Kamouraska. We have no specific evidence that this is what happened, but we know that his father ZACHARIE was a native of the St. Lawrence and that he would naturally be in the front ranks of refugees seeking a safehaven there. ALEXANDRE and CHARLOTTE had nine children, at least the first five were born in Kamouraska: MARIE CHARLOTTE (1762), Madeleine (1763), Charlemagne (1767), Marie-Josephe (1769), Alexandre (1771), Zacharie (17 ), Charles (17 ), Jean Baptiste (17 ) and Rosalie (17 ). The Studholme Report shows that, in 1783, ALEXANDRE had been living in Ecoupag for three years and that seven children were living under his roof at that time. CHARLOTTE and Madeleine appear in the report as the wives of PAUL and Pierre Sire, respectively. ALEXANDRE was fifty when he settled in Madawaska as one of the first contingent of colonists. He was a grantee in the 1790 British concession, his land being located on the south bank. He became a churchwarden in 1792 when Madawaska formally became a parish under the patronage of St. Basil. CHARLOTTE died at Madawaska Settlement on July 26, 1806 and was buried the next day in the St. Basil cemetery on the north bank. ALEXANDRE died November 22, 1808 at approximately 78 years of age and was buried in the same cemetery. from pp. 227, 228 of Leo G. Cyr's Madawaskan Heritage.

Marguerite-Blanche Thibodeau dite Tante Blanche (1732-1810) Many Acadian pioneer families who arrived in the Madawaska region between 1785 and 1820 suffered from famine since resources were very limited. The year of the "misère noire", 1797, was particularly difficult for the Madawaska region's inhabitants, early snow having buried their harvests. Oral accounts relate the exploits of an exceptional Acadian woman, Marguerite-Blanche Thibodeau, wife of Joseph Cyr. Reputed for her courage and physical strength, she went from door to door asking those who could afford it to give to the poor. She also saved the lives of numerous sick individuals by seeing to their essential needs. The people of the Madawaska nicknamed her "Tante Blanche", as she became a source of moral support in the community with her numerous acts of kindness. When she died, her body was interred inside the church of Saint-Basile, cradle of Madawaska, which, at the time, was a great honour. Source: http://www2.umoncton.ca/cfdocs/etudacad/1755/index.cfm?axe=1&la...
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TREATY OF PARIS (1763)

The Treaty of Paris (1763), signed 10 February 1763 by France, Britain and Spain after 3 years of negotiations, ended the SEVEN YEARS WAR. New France was surrendered by Governor Vaudreuil to a British invasion force at Montréal by the Articles of Capitulation on 8 September 1760. Prior to this the native allies of the French had reached an agreement with the British at Oswegatchie (25 August) and the Huron of Lorette had done likewise at Longueuil (5 September). The colony was under military occupation and under military rule until a definitive treaty of peace was negotiated.

By the terms of the treaty, Britain obtained Ile Royale [Cape Breton Island] and Canada, including the Great Lakes Basin and east bank of the Mississippi River, from France, and Florida from Spain. France retained fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Gulf of ST LAWRENCE, acquired Saint Pierre and Miquelon as an unfortified fishing station and had her lucrative West Indian possessions, trading centres in India and slaving station on the Île de Gorée (in present-day Senegal) restored. In accordance with the conditional capitulation of 1760, Britain guaranteed Canadians limited freedom of worship. Provisions were made for exchange of prisoners; Canadians were given 18 months to emigrate if they wished; and government archives were preserved.

Britain had acquired a large empire and France was still able to challenge British naval supremacy, but Spain achieved none of her war aims.

Jaenen, Cornelius J. "Paris, Treaty of (1763)." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Foundation, 2011. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Param... (Last accessed on 14 October 2011).