Cecile Marie DUGAS

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30 January 1746 , Port Royal, Acadia

Died

9 July 1825 , Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada

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Claude DUGAS Marie Josephe MELANSON

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Born: 30 January 1746 in Port Royal, Acadia

Father: Claude DUGAS

Mother: Marie Josephe MELANSON

Paternal grandparents: Abraham DUGAS , Madeleine Marie LANDRY

Maternal grandparents: Pierre MELANSON , Anne GRANGER

Cecile Marie was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
Learn more: What Was The Acadian Expulsion of 1755? Unraveling the Grand Dérangement

Cecile Marie DUGAS died 9 July 1825 in Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
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Birth — 1746
30 January 1746
Port Royal, Acadia

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1755 - Exile in Massachusetts
'Claude Dugas and his wife received an order to live in Sturbridge, but their children would be separated from them; Marguerite, Madeleine and Felecite were sent to Oxford. The two other daughters; Elizabeth (Cecile) and Hannah (Anne) were sent to Dudley, while the two sons, Charles and Joseph, left for Charlton. Charles Belliveau (Claude's son-in law) and his wife and their young children received an order to go to Leicester, but the second child was sent to Spencer. In the spring or summer of 1767, however despite anguish and misfortune, Claude Dugas succeeded in reaching the Province of Quebec with the whole family, except for Charles.'
History of the Franco-Americans of Southbridge, by Felix Gatineau, translated by Elizabeth Blood

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.