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| Father | **Gaspard Boucher b. circa 1586, d. 20 May 1662 | |
| Mother | **Nicole LeMere b. circa 1595 |
| Birth | 1622 | Pierre was born in 1622.
Born in 1622 in Mortagne, France, Pierre was the son of Gaspard
Boucher, a peasant and carpenter by trade, and his wife, Nicole Lemere.
The eldest of eight children, three of which died in their infancy, he
and all of his brothers and sisters except Madeleine were baptized at
the Notre-Dame Church in Mortagne. Pierre immigrated with his father
and the remainder of the family in 1635. |
| Pierre Boucher (1622-1717) was born in Lagny, near the city Mortagne, in France. In his time, he was a very appreciated, pious, and honorable landowner in colonial New France, and was the first Canadian colonist to be ennobled by France's King Louis XIV. With his father, he moved to Canada in 1634, and at age 18 became a missionary among the Jesuit Fathers, working in and about the Georgian Bay in order to convert the Huron First-Nations People (then Indians). After he returned to Québec in 1641, he was a garrisoned soldier, and became a First Nations language interpreter, then commissary-general of the trading station in Trois-Rivières. He was elected captain of the militia in 1651 and defended the colony from an attack by the a band of Iroquois. Because of this military victory, he was made governor of Trois-Rivières, keeping the the position until 1658. He acted as a sort of ambassador to France for the people of France's colonies in Canada, and in 1662, was reappointed Governor. He later founded the seigniorial parish "Boucherville". In 1664 he published "L'histoire veritable et naturelle des moeurs et productions du pays de la Nouvelle-France, vulgairement dite le Canada". It was first translated into English in 1883. In 1717, Boucher died, rather aptly, in Boucherville. There is a museum in Trois-Rivières named after Pierre Boucher, as well as one of the pavilions of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.1,2 |
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| 1635 | Pierre, the eldest child, left home after having
been engaged as a "Donné" by the Jesuit Fathers to accompany
them at their Mission Sainte-Marie in Huronia, Huronia being a long
thousand miles in land in present-day western Ontario. During his four
year stay (1637-1640) in Huronia, Pierre lived with the Indians,
learned their languages, observed their way of life, and with his close
relationship with the Missionaries, obtained his education.2 |
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| Pierre Boucher married twice. His first marriage
took place in Québec on April 8, 1649 with Marie
Chrétienne, a young Huron girl which had been raised and
educated by the Ursuline nuns. She was the daughter of Three-Rivers
Huron Chief Pachirini. The union did not last long as she died the
following December giving birth to a child which died two days later. Following an eighteen month widowhood, Pierre Boucher, at 30, took Jeanne Crevier, aged 16, for his second wife. Born in Rouen, France in 1636, Jeanne Crevier was the eldest of a family of eleven children, the daughter of Christophe Crevier,Sieur de la Meslee and Jeanne Enard. |
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| Death | 19 April 1717 | Pierre died on 19 April 1717 at Boucherville, Quebec Canada.2 |
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