Laboucane Family History
GENERATIONS:
1 Joseph B. LAFOURNAIS born 1777 in Montreal, (his Grandfather was Mathurin Aubin FOURNAISE dit LABOUCANE born March 3, 1743/44 in Joliette, Lavaltrie. His Great Grandfather was Francois FOURNAISE born in 1708 Toulouse, Languedoc, France).
+ Suzanne LECLERC born circa
1786.
2 Jean Baptiste Joseph LAFOURNAISE, born in 1815
Red River Settlement, died Smokey River, AB.
+ Marguerite
GOSSELIN, born 1819 Red River and died Nov. 8, 1887 in Duhamel, AB. Her parents
were Marguerite Native and Michel GOSSELIN, Fr.
Cdn.
3 Guillaume
LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE born 1835 White Horse Plains, St. Boniface, Red River Settlement. In 1878 Guillaume, his
brothers Jean Baptise, Gabriel, Jerome, Pierre, Elzear along with their large
families, mother and 2 sisters moved to the Battle River, Alberta area known as
the Laboucane Settlement and later renamed Duhamel.
+ Caroline GARIEPY born 1844, her father was Francois GARIEPY and mother Louise GLADY.
4 William John LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE,
born 1880, married Mary TODD after 1907, their
homestead NE 2-58-10-W4 west of St. Paul, AB.
Died in 1955 and is buried in the Old St. Paul Catholic Cemetery.
+ Mary Rose TODD, born 16 October 1886, Fort Pitt, SK, daughter of William Todd III and Marie Dufresne. Died 1948.
Lucy LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE
+ GAGNE
James Jim LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE, 1908 - 1921
Isabella LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE, born 1910
Irene LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE, 1912 or 14 -1983
+ HAMELIN
Alice LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE, born 1916
Emily LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE, 1921 - 2012
+ Edward COOKNELL, 1918 - 2000
back row : Marguerite House, (half-sister of Mary Todd seated), Irene and Bella (Mary's daughters),
front row: Blanche Laboucane (her niece the daughter of Isabella Todd and Jules Laboucane) Lucy (Mary's daughter) Mary Todd Laboucane seated, and Emily (Mary's daughter)
Mary Rose Todd Laboucane and William John Laboucane
Jules LABOUCANE,
born circa 1880, married
in 1911. His brother William John LABOUCANE married his wife's
sister Mary Rose TODD. Their homestead was at NE 4-57-10-W4, near St. Paul - AB Scrip
Cert: Form D, no. 1968. John and Jules were
well known ranchers in the early days of St. Paul. They raised large numbers of
cattle and horses to sell to the settlers.
+ Isabella TODD, born 1889 in Manitoba, baptized at Onion Lake. During the 1901 Census she was 11 yrs. old living near the town of Lafond with her step-father James HOUSE and her mother, Marie DUFRESNE TODD. During the 1906 Census she was Bella HOWSE living in the same location. Married 1911 in St. Paul. Scrip Cert: Form D, no. 1968. Died Jan. 20, 1946 in Fort Vermillion, Alberta.
Corinne LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE born 1911 or 13 in St. Paul, Alberta, died Oct.16, 1968 in the B.C. Okanagan.
Blanche Mary LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE
+ Louis GARNEAU Jr. 1908 - 1992. His parents were Louis Lernartine GARNEAU Sr. 1872 - 1954 and Elizabeth Bessy Betsy LAVALEE 1889 - 1945. His grandparents were Laurent GARNEAU 1841 - 1921 and Eleanor Heline THOMAS 1851 - 1912.
Caroline Regina LABOUCANE /LAFOURNAISE 1915 - 1985
Source: Saint Paul des Metis 1909 to St. Paul 1979 - A Pictorial History of St. Paul and District
In 1897 more family members moved to St. Paul des Metis from Duhamel Settlement (formerly known as the Laboucane Settlement) and began to farm and ranch the land east of the mission. From the Land Records: "Homesteaders who filed for homesteads before and after April 10, 1909 - were Alfred, George, Jerome, and St. Pierre Laboucane."
Source: Habit St. Paul by E. O'Neil Drouin
Some twenty years ago, stretches of this deep-rutted Saddle Lake Trail could be still be seen in the Fathers' Pasture behind the rectory and in Jim and John Laboucan's yard south of the banks of the area uncharitably called "Moccasin Flats".
45. The
Saddle Lake - Battleford Trail crossed the yard of Mr. Jules and John
Laboucane.
SW 31
56
8
W4
Alfred Laboucane
Pt
SW 14
58
8
W4
Jerome Laboucane St Pierre
Laboucane
SW
1
57
10
W4
Mary A
Laboucane
NE
8
57
10
W4
Mary Ann Norris Daniel Laboucane the
late
NE
2
58
10
W4
William John
Laboucane
NW
1
58
9
W4
George
Laboucane
SW
1
58
9
W4
Alfred Laboucane
Pt
NE 2
58
9
W4
Jerome
Laboucane
SE
2
58
9
W4
St Pierre
Laboucane
SW
14
58
9
W4
Frederick
Laboucane
SW 16
57
10
W4
Mary Ann Laboucan J B Laboucan
S1/2 of
SE 23
58
10
W4
Dionne
Laboucan
Both headstones at Old
St. Paul, AB Catholic Cemetery
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From: "The Battle River Country - An Historical Sketch of Duhamel & District"
Chapter Two - Laboucane Settlement
editor: J.R. Stan Hambly
New Norway, Alta. : Duhamel Historical Society, 1974.
THE LABOUCANE SETTLEMENT 1875 - 1892
We are sorry to say that much of the early history of the old Labaoucane Settlement has been lost. We are aware, however, that before the Laboucanes came to the community early in the 1880's, the Indians called the fording place at the Battle River, 'Notikiwin Seppe', the Indian translation for Battle River. However, despite the fact that we cannot record accurately the history of this old trading post, we do possess certain facts about the early settlement at Old Duhamel, or its environs.
THE DUMONTS
...The name, Dumont, is well known in western Canada, as Gabriel Dumont took an active part along with Louis Riel in the Riel Rebellion of 1885. While many historians are inclined to the opinion that Francois Dumont and Gabriel Dumont were not in any way related, we do have on good authority from Dolphus Campion who married a daughter of Pascal and who now resides in Tofield at the good old age of 89, that Francois and Gabriel were brothers. If the relationship was not this close, then definitely a blood tie between the two. ... Among the first and probably the first settler to come to the Laboucane Settlement was the Dumont family. In 1875 the Dumonts moved from Lac St. Anne to Battle River. They settled on the property now owned by Irene May (Congdon) Scheie, River Lot 46, but virgin territory in those days. The first year after they came to the settlement, the Federal Government paid out the first treaty money to the Indians and Francois was appointed the agent to do this job in the area later known as the Laboucane Settlement and still later, as the Old Duhamel Settlement. He made his headquarters at Tail Creek near Buffalo Lake, but returned to the Battle River Settlement the following year.
In the 1930's Mr. John Congdon found on the Dumont place, an old, rather primitive looking and roughly made eight inch plow bottom which when shown to Pascal Dumont, the son of Francois, was recognized as part of his father's first plow. The plow bottom which is now in the Museum of the Historical Society in Camrose has an interesting history. The Catholic Mission at St. Albert was the first of its kind in Alberta although Protestant missions had been established prior to that. Francois Dumont made the trip, using Red River Carts, bringing back from Winnipeg the first priests to establish the St. Albert Mission. He also brought back with him the plow which he used on his farm at Lac St. Anne. After using a hoe and spade to work his garden and fields at Duhamel, Francois decided that the plow would save much back-breaking labour. So Francoise Dumont journeyed back to Lac St. Anne returning with the plow and yoke of oxen. It was in this manner that agriculture in what is now the (read below)
