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The Scot in New France (1535-1880)


four years Mayor of Port Daniel, and who had settled there in 1838. *

Several Scotch United Empire Loyalists, in 1783, coming from the adjacent United States Provinces, settled at the Baie des Chaleurs, as well as at New Carlisle, under the predecessors of Lieut.-Governor Major Nicholas Cox; at Sorel—on the Bay of Quinte,—at Douglastown on Gaspé Bay; at the latter place, the seignior of Crane Island, in 1803, Daniel McPherson, Esq., t had settled about 1790 with the Annetts, Coffins, Murisons, Kennedys, and other U. E. Loyalists.

Many are the ethnological changes, in Lower Canada, ushered in by British rule and with the experience of the past, varied indeed will be in a hundred years hence the rich concrete, composing our nationality, if the blind God of love should continue to shoot his darts in defiance of race, language or creed.

If Sandy shewed a penchant for the bright eyed Josettes of New France, French families even those with the bluest blood, were not averse to Scotch or English alliances; in proof whereof, you will find at the end of this paper a list of military marriages and some ethnological notes which may startle you.


* Born on the 14th October, 1808, in Invernesshire, Scotland, not far from the field of Culloden, and emigrated with his family to the Baie des Chaleurs in 1819. Was elected mayor of Port Daniel in 1843 and continued mayor until 1877.—34 years.

t Daniel McPherson, a noted U. E. Loyalist, born at Inverness, Scotland in 1752, resided at Sorel first, where he married a Miss Kelly: he left Sorel some time about 1790 for Douglastown, Gaspé; engaged in the fisheries and in agricultural pursuits with success, opened subsequently a large fishery stand at Point St. Peter, Gaspé; he died at St. Thomas, Montmagny, in June, 1840, aged 88 years. The lecturer, whose youth was spent under his grandfather’s hospitable roof from 1828 to 1838, by his mother Miss M. McPherson, is the grand-son of this respected old U. E. Loyalist, after whom he was named James (McPherson) LeMoine: his French ancestors hailed from Pistre, near Rouen, in Normandy, and were closely connected with the other celebrated Norman family, LeMoine de Longueuil.


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