page_title: Jacques Goulet
section_title: Life in Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Jacques Goulet / Life in Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: 1666 Census of New France
context_page_description: Jacques Goulet was a pioneer settler to Canada who was part of the Percheron immigration movement recruited to colonize the shores of the Saint Laurence River at Québec in New France, a miller and the ancestor of all of the Goulets in North America.
context_section_description: Shortly after arriving at Québec, Goulet's wife Marguerite gave birth to their first child, Geneviève, on October 28, 1646. Geneviève died about six weeks later. She was buried on December 14, 1646.
  Goulet was employed by Noël Juchereau, until Juchereau died in 1648, soon after a visit to France.
  In December 1651, Goulet acquired land with one arpent of frontage on côte St. Michel near Sillery, Quebec City. He later sold the property along with another property with one-and-a-half arpents of land to Simon Legendre for 200 livres on December 26, 1655.
  In Château-Richer, Goulet owned land consisting of six arpents of frontage.
  He sold this property to partners Jacques Dodier and Pierre Pointel on November 30, 1656.
  On March 4, 1657, Dodier gave the property back to Goulet who then sold it to Lauzon de la Citière for 860 livres, a significant sum.
  On May 30, 1658, Olivier Le Tardiff, seigneur and judge for côte de Beaupré, a concession of land at L’Ange-Gardien. The land consisted of three arpents of frontage on the North shore of the St. Lawrence River near L'Ange-Gardien, near the stream Ruisseau des Originaux.
  As of the 1667 census, Goulet was farming 15 arpents of land and had five head of cattle. By the 1681 census, he had doubled his arable land. He also owned a gun and one of the New France's 78 horses.
  From 1673 to 1676, Goulet worked as a miller at the mills of the seigneurie de Beaupré, Château-Richer's wind mill and the water mill of Sault à la Puce. He was also a miller at the water mill at Petit Pré (pictured) until at least 1682.
caption: 1666 Census of New France
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