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My Majore & Major surname origins are from Montreal. possibly from St. Eustache, Que. The Major surname arose when an ancestor named Boutron or Beautron served in the army of New France and became known as the 'Major' - the surname was changed around the beginning of the 1700's. This Major who was a soldier living and serving at Fort Detroit. Another source has my 2nd Great-Grandfather, Joseph Major born in New York, USA in 1857. Joseph's parents were apparently Jean Baptiste Majore married to Felecite Peltier. Joseph Major married Marie St. Denis in the Northwest, now Man. and Sask., further he may have had been previously married in Que., likely prior to the late 1860's when my Great Grandfather Alfred Majore/Major was born in the early 1870's in northwest, CAN. Alfred and his sister, Marie Melanie Majore/Major (married a Parisan) were 'Children of the Plains'. We are in every western Canadian province and a few U.S. states, namely, Montana. The 'e' was added to the surname by the RC Church, allegedly to make it sound/look French.