Pierre  BARON dit LUPIEN

'Pierre, was baptized at Montreal on 10 October 1683 and died in 1744. He was married at Montreal on 18 November 1705 to Angelique Courault dit Lacoste, daughter of Cybar and of Marie-Francoise Goupil. Pierre became a master carpenter and supplier of timber for the King's Shipyard at Montreal. He had four sons and six daughters.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VIII, Page 15

Biography
LUPIEN, dit Baron, PIERRE (often referred to as Sieur Baron, or Barron), master carpenter, timber supplier to the royal shipyards; baptized 10 Oct. 1683 at Montreal, son of Nicolas Lupien, dit Baron, and Marie-Marthe Chauvin; d. 1744 in New France.

Until he was 50 years old Pierre Lupien, dit Baron, followed the trade of carpenter. His father raised animals and farmed at Montreal and later at Longue-Pointe; he also was a butcher and dabbled in the lumber trade. No doubt the latter activity later led Pierre into house-building. In 1734 while living in Montreal Pierre received a grant of three acres from Governor Charles de Beauharnois in the seigneury of Villechauve. Soon afterwards he expanded his activities from house carpentry to supplying timber to the small shipbuilding industry in the colony.

In the fall of 1736 or the following spring he agreed to supply timber and masts for a 300-ton merchantman to be built at Quebec. In 1738 the ship was completed, christened the Fier,...Read full story


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003