Pierre miville biography

Pierre Miville, master carpenter, was.
Miville, Pierre, known as Le Suisse, master-joiner, pioneer and captain of the Lauson shore; d.
Pierre's Swiss origin is not in doubt.

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MIVILLE,PIERRE, known as Le Suisse, master-joiner, pioneer and captain of the Lauson shore; d. 14 Oct. 1669 in Lauson and was buried the next day in Quebec.

Swiss by birth, Miville came to Canada via La Rochelle at a date that has not been established with certainty but that was previous to 28 Oct. 1649. On that date he, along with his son François, received from the governor, Louis d’Ailleboust, a grant of land in the seigneury of Lauson, which was later raised to the status of an arriere-fief. Miville apparently tried to entice some of his compatriots to Canada. In fact, on 16 July 1665 M. de Prouville de Tracy granted him, along with his sons and four other persons, a concession measuring 21 by 40 arpents at Grande Anse (La Pocatière), naming the locality “the Canton of the Fribourg Swiss.” This undertaking was unsuccessful. Pierre Miville stayed at Lauson until his death on 14 Oct. 1669. In France he had married Charlotte Maugis, who bore him at least six children; one of them, Jacques, was the founder of the Miville

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Pierre (Miville) Miville dit Le Suisse (abt. 1602 - 1669)

PierreMiville dit Le Suisse formerly Miville

Born about in Canton de Fribourg, Suisse[uncertain]

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Father of Gabriel Miville, Marie Miville, François Miville, Marie Aimée Miville, Magdelaine Miville, Jacques (Miville) Miville dit Deschênes and Suzanne Miville

Died at about age 67in Pointe-de-Lévy, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biographie

Pierre (Miville) Miville dit Le Suisse a migré de France au Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Pierre Miville "dit" Le Suisse (1602 - 1669)

Père et mère:
Ses père et mère sont inconnus, pas Isaac Miville et Salomé Lomène comme certains l'ont prétendu. Selon Préfen, Isaac Miville serait son frère ou son cousin.

Naissance:
En 1602, il naît dans le canton de Fribourg, Suisse.

Il est maître menuisier.

Mariage:
Vers 1630, Pierre Miville âgé d'environ 29 ans épouse Charlotte Maugis âgée d'environ 2

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Notes
Pierre Miville, known as "le Suisse," emigrated to Canada. The research of historian-genealogist Marcel Fournier revealed that under the French Régime, 106 Swiss immigrants, six of whom were women, came to New France. Of the 106, 41 married and settled permanently.

Pierre Miville, born c1602 in the canton of Fribourg, was the first Swiss to immigrate to Canada. He was in Québec City with his wife and six children by 1649. He was in France in the second half of the 1620s. He may have been one of Cardinal Richelieu's Swiss guards. Perhaps he was one of those who laid siege to the city of La Rochelle in 1627. Eventually, he came to Brouage, the hometown of Samuel de Champlain, where he was married, c1630, to Catherine Maugis, a Saintongeaise from Saint-Germain-de-Lusignan. The couple settled at Brouage, where their seven children were born. The eldest, Gabriel, died at the age of five. Raymond Ouimet, related to the Miville family through his mother, wrote a book on Pierre Miville. He pointed out that Miville must have belonged to a coterie of people devoted to Card