Pierre MIVILLE dit LESUISSE
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MIVILLE-DESCHÊNES - nickname given to someone who owns or lives near an oak plantation. Pierre Miville, master carpenter, was born around 1602 in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. But he lived in Brouage, France, with his wife, Charlotte Maugis, and six children. In 1649, he went to New France and received land in the seigneury of Lauzon opposite Quebec. In 1656, he obtained the concession of a lot in the lower town, rue Saint-Pierre, at the corner of the alley leading to the Place Royale. He built a small one-storey house there, consisting of a cellar, fire chamber and attic, which was destroyed in the fire in the lower town in 1682. Pierre Miville tried to attract other Swiss to Canada and obtained at La Pocatière a concession which was called the Canton des Suisses fribourgeois: the enterprise failed. Miville died in 1669 and was buried in the first cemetery in Quebec, Côte de la Montagne. Pierre Miville would have arrived in New France towards the end of August 1649. He has six children whose age varies between 9 and 17 years old, four girls and two boys: Marie, François, Aimée, Madeleine, Jacques and Suzanne. It would be one of the most numerous families arrived in New France.

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