New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-03
FRENCh-CANADIAN EXODUS.
EilIGRANTS OF FORMER TIMES WHO Al
TANNED DISTINCTION IN THE
UNITED STATES.

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LONGER so DoCLE TO THE PRIEST AS IN
CANADA - VOLUNTARY MIGRATION
BRINGS TO THE UNION THE BEST
AND MOST THRIFTY OF
THE PEOPLE.
Quebec, Sept. Io.-In old days most of tho
emigrants from French Canada made their way to
the Western and Northwestern States. Several
small colonies planted in what Is now
Michigan. When the post at Detroit fell intS
the hands Of the English in 1860, there vere
sixty French-Canadian families there and two
OF three hundred in the interior. There Is still
considerable French-speakng population in tho
County of Essex the Canadian side Of the
river, but the young people as they grow up
emigrate to the States. Of late some have gone
to Florida to raise fruit and others to the factories
OF Rhode Island Settlements were also estab-
lished in the early times in the region now form
ing the States Of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Missouri and Iowa. Descendants Of these pioneers
are found at Chicago, ste. Anne and Kankakee
in Illinois, in Monroe and St. Clair counties In
Michigan, ard at st. Paul, Petit Canada, and
Lac-1u-Parle, in Minnesota. AS rule, the
French element has been absorbed by its English
speaking environment. When Wilkes visited
4! oregon IN 1893 he found 700 French-Canadians,
and twenty years later there were 1000, prnci-
pally in the parishes of Nesquay st. Francis
Xavier, St. Louis and ST. Paul. which were
known as the praires Franchises, or French lands.
In q work published in Io7s Mr. Joseph Tasse, Q
member of the Senate Of the Dominion, estimated
that there were 100000 French-C Canadians and
descendants of French-Canadans in the Western
and Northwestern States and the Canadian
Northwest
Nan -nfS Shap, lo,-o
| and their adopted country. The first Lieutenant.
Governor of Illinois, Pierre Menard, was a French
| Canadian. Mr.. Crepeau Governor OF Michigan.
/ was of French-Canadian descent: so was Mr.. L.
V. Baugy, at one time a United States Senator
from Missouri. Mr.. Malhiot, who left French
| Canada after the rebellion of 1897, cut a figure
| at the bar and in the politics of Louisiana, and
subsequently founded colony Of French-Canas
| dians in Illinois French-Canadians have sat in
the Legs atures of Minnesota, Louisiana, Missouri,
| Illinois, Michigan Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas and
Montana. They say Daniel Boone of Kentucky,
had French Canadian blood in his veins A.
Montreal writer claims Beauregard, the Confeder.
ate general Of that lineage. The story is that
a wetodo farmer named TOutan left the parish
of Babiscan, on the ST. Lawrence, long tima
ago and bought plantation known as Beauregard
in the neighborhood of Lake Pontchartrain. He
used to style himself Tontan de Beauregard. His
son bore that name, but late in life dropped the
Toutan and called himself plain Beauregard. This
man had son, who became General Beauregard.
The Longlade family, which distinguished itself
in Wisconsin, hailed from Three Rivers. Its
founder came TO Canada with the Carignan regi-
ment of French troops in 1868. Charles Reaume,
French anadian, and another Of the pioneers
Of Wisconsin, owed his appointment to the bench
10 William Henry Harrison. He used TO sit In
a scarlet robe and administer justice in rough.
and ready fashion, out Of the depths of his COM
mon sense rather than in accordance with Black
stone. Laurcnt-Salomon Juneau, of Montreal,
settled on the banks of the Milwaukee River in
1915, and grew rich by storekeeping, trading
with the Indians, and dealing in land He was
one Of the delegates from Wisconsin to the Dem
ocratic Convention which nominated Mr.. Buchanan
for the Presidency. Julien Dubuque, OF Three
Rivers, gave his name TO Dubuque, and is said
10 have been the first white settler in Iowa.
One of the deeds of his property bears the sigma
rure of William Henry Harrison, January 1,
1906. Harrison describes himself as Governor
Of the Territory of Louisiana and Commissioner
Plenpotentiary of the United States to treat with
the Indians in the region to the northwest of the
Ohio River Antoine Leclerc, or Leclaire,
French-C Canadan, acted as interpreter and agenu
for the United States in negotiations WIN BlacK
Hawk the famous Indian chief. Jean baptS'o
Faribault of Berthier, in French Canada' waS
another important parsonage In the lhdiah no
rotiations. When the war of lsl2 proKe ouo
the British Government urged the french-Cana1
dian traders in the Minnesota region 10 mcre
the Indians 10 take up arms against the Cni'oo
S.atcs Some of the traders did so, and even
accepted commissions in the British Army. fari-
bault declared that his sympathles were with the
[7nted States and he was seized ana lnpriSoneu
bv the British JIe died at ST. Paul In looo.
st. Paul was once called by the French Canadians
I, OeiI-de-C Cochon, and local poet wrote:
Pigs Eve. Converted thou shalt be like saul
Arise and be henceforh. saint Paul.
Vital Guerin Pierre Bottireau and Others ooro
a leading part in the early colonization OF Mill
rcsota and the Dakotas. In Illinois Noel LeVas-
sour a trapper for the Astors, and Francis Bour-
lonnais. founder of a village OF that name ac-
CURED wealth These two men married Indian
women According 70 some, LevaSseur's fathcrn-
law an Indian chief offered him his choice of live
souare miles of land where Chicago now stands or
of fen square miles in BOurbonnais township lhe
future Chicago was wrctcheI swamp and Levas-
sony took the tract in Bourbonnais. But this ID
probably myth
As has been said tie majority of the cmigrants
from Quebec now so to New-England There are
sNty-fve parliamentary constituencies in the Prov
tncc and the Canadian census shows that between
1881 and 1891 there an absolute decline' not
withstandng the remarkable fecundty of the peo-
ME. in the population of '2s. The increases wem
chiefly in the urban figures, those for Montreal par
ticulary, for here elsewhere, the farmers sons
and daughters are crowding into the cities 10
cannot be said that the emigration is due 70 want
Of elbow room. There are only 1-2 persons
L., Ill
ID Quebec. with her 23O, 900 square miles OF
,.rritorv. ought surely to be able 10 support sew
eral millions in rude comfort. Vast tracts in the
,ortb and east are barren, but there is much good
land unoccupied, besides forests mines and si'
,rics. which might be made valuable If Canada be-
lonred to the American Republic, or had free ac-
o,ss for her products 70 the American market.