Maps

Tracing the journeys of 35 Atlantic crossers from France to New France, and the settlements they built along the St. Lawrence.

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Terres des Ancêtres — Île d'Orléans

Explore the 1689 Villeneuve cadastral lot boundaries overlaid on modern satellite imagery. See the exact land holdings of Jacques Baudouin, Pierre Blais, and Émery Blouin — with census data, genealogical popups, and church markers.

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5 ancestor lots1681 census dataSatellite overlayParish churches

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Origins in France

See where each ancestor was born across the provinces of France, with animated voyage routes tracing their Atlantic crossings to Québec City.

French birthplacesVoyage routesFilles du RoiRegion grouping

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St. Lawrence Corridor

Follow the parishes and seigneuries along the St. Lawrence from Québec City through Île d'Orléans and south to Lowell, Massachusetts.

Parish markersAncestor connectionsÎle d'OrléansLa Grande Hémorragie

Normandie(8)

Perche(8)

Saintonge(4)

Maine(3)

Anjou(2)

Charentes(2)

Atlantic Crossers

New France Settlements

The parishes and seigneuries along the St. Lawrence where Carl's ancestors settled, raised families, and built the foundations of New France.

Capital

Québec

Capital

First permanent settlement, 1608

Louis HébertMarie RolletGuillaume Couillard

Charlesbourg

Capital

Seigneurie est. 1626

Jacques Baudouin

Côte-de-Beaupré

Beauport

Côte-de-Beaupré

Seigneurie est. 1634

Noël Langlois dit BoisverdunMarie CrevetJean Guyon

Château-Richer

Côte-de-Beaupré

Parish est. 1658

Claude BouchardLouise Gagné

Île d’Orléans

Ste-Famille

Île d’Orléans

Oldest parish on the island, 1661

David AsselinFrançoise DurandJacques Baudouin

St-François

Île d’Orléans

Where Baudouin family farmed by 1680

Jacques BaudouinFrançoise Durand

St-Pierre

Île d’Orléans

Pierre Blais seigneurial land

Pierre BlaisFrançoise Beaudoin

St-Jean

Île d’Orléans

Parish est. 1679

Jean MaheustMarie Guyon

Bellechasse

St-Vallier

Bellechasse

South shore parish

Marie Josephte Nathalie Blais

St-Michel-de-Bellechasse

Bellechasse

South shore

Marie Appoline LacroixMarie Appoline Louise Lacasse

Lanaudière

Berthier-en-Haut

Lanaudière

Seigneurie de Berthier, Baudouin sons settled here

Jacques Baudouin filsMarc Baudouin

Mauricie

Trois-Rivières

Mauricie

Second French settlement, 1634

Pierre Guillet dit Lajeunesse

Montréal

Montréal (Ville-Marie)

Montréal

Founded 1642

Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve

Kamouraska

La Pocatière

Kamouraska

Seigneurie de la Pocatière

François Miville dit Le Suisse

Bas-Saint-Laurent

Rivière-du-Loup

Bas-Saint-Laurent

Lower St. Lawrence settlement