Presbyterian Churches of Lower Canada North Shore & Gaspe Peninsula

Part Three

compiled by

Jacques Gagné [email protected] Updated - 2015-05-19

Presbyterian Churches of Lower Canada - Québec Part Three * The churches located east of the city of Québec including those of the Lower St. Lawrence, the North Shore of the St. Lawrence and the Gaspé Peninsula.

Ancient territories of Cornwallis, Devon, Dorchester, Hertford, Northumberland

Modern-days counties of Bellechasse, Bonaventure, Charlevoix, Gaspé, Kamouraska, L'Islet, Matane, Montmagny, Rimouski, Rivière du Loup, Témiscouata

Governor James Murray (1760-1766), Governor Guy Carleton (1766-1778), Governor Frederick Haldimand (1778-1785), Governor Lord Dorchester (Guy Carleton) (1786-1791) - All three gentlemen wanted a British presence in the Lower St. Lawrence region, from Lévis county, the latter located across the Capital of British North America, Québec City to the Gaspé Peninsula - The first of these British Isles settlers were the Scots, followed by families from Northern Ireland and England - Finally the Irish Catholics arrived, the latter group soon after their arrivals greatly outnumbered all of the above settlers - Many of these early settlers stayed only a generation or two, many moved to Upper Canada (Ontario), the Montréal region, Québec City, the Prairie Provinces at a much later time period and many more to the U.S.A. - The farms of the Lower St. Lawrence were small, the region was isolated, the winters were cold, the growing seasons were short - But, many North American Anglo Protestants have lineages within these regions and many of today's genealogy researchers are not even aware that some of their ancestors resided in these regions.

Presbyterian Church Archives 50 Wynford Drive, Toronto, ON M3C 1J7 800-619-7301 www.presbyterian.ca/archives/general.html

Ms. Kim Arnold [email protected] – Archivist 416-441-1111 ext. 310

Bob Anger [email protected] – Assistant Archivist 416-441-1111 ext. 266

Presbyterian College - McGill University 3495 University Street, Montréal QC H3A 2A8 – 514-288-5256 [email protected]

United Church Archives

Montreal & Ottawa Conference Archives 225-50th Ave. Lachine QC H8T 2T7 - 514-634-7015 #28 Beverly Anderson Levine - Conference Archivist United Church Archives

Eastern Townships Resource Centre - ETRC - Bishop's University Lennoxville - Quebec Diocesan Archives - Old Library, 2nd floor, McGreer Hall, 2600 College Street, Lennoxville QC J1M 1Z7 819-822-9600 #2261

Jody Robinson - Archivist [email protected]

United Church Archives Chalmers Wesley Pastoral Charge Québec City 78, rue Saint-Ursule, Québec, QC G1R 4E8 418-692-2640 www.chalmerswesley.org - - Shirley Normand - Researcher

United Church Archives Maritime Conference Mount Allison University 21 Wright Street, Sackville, NB E4L 4P8 506-536-1334 #7 Sarah Wallace - Archivist [email protected]

Table of Contents Counties ...... 12

Bellechasse County ...... 12

Bonaventure ...... 12

Charlevoix ...... 12

Cornwallis ...... 13

De Peiras ...... 13

Devon ...... 13

Gaspé ...... 13

Hertford ...... 13

Kamouraska ...... 13

L'Islet ...... 13

Matane ...... 14

Matapédia ...... 14

Montmagny ...... 14

Northumberland ...... 14

Rimouski ...... 14

Rivière-du-Loup...... 14

Témiscouata - ...... 14

Towns ...... 15

Armagh - Devon - Hertford - Bellechasse ...... 15

Ashburton - Devon - Hertford - Bellechasse ...... 15

Ashford - Devon - Hertford - Bellechasse ...... 15

Baie des Chaleurs - Chaleur Bay - Bonaventure ...... 15

Baie des Sables – De Peiras - Matane...... 15

Beaumont - Devon - Hertford - Bellechasse ...... 15

Black Cape - Bonaventure ...... 16

Broadlands - Bonaventure ...... 16

Buckland - Devon-Hertford - Bellechasse ...... 17

Bungay - Cornwallis - Kamouraska ...... 17

Cacouna - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 17

Cap à l'Aigle - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 17

Cap des Rosiers - Rosebuds - Gaspé ...... 17

Cap St-Ignace - Cornwallis - Montmagny ...... 17

Cape Cove - Anse du Cap - Gaspé ...... 17

Cape Hope - Cap d’Espoir - Gaspé ...... 18

Cape Ozo - Gaspé ...... 18

Caplan - Bonaventure ...... 18

Carleton - Bonaventure ...... 18

Carlisle Bay - Bonaventure ...... 18

Cascapedia Bay - Bonaventure ...... 18

Chaleur Bay - Bonaventure ...... 19

Chaleur Bay Village - Gascons - Bonaventure ...... 20

Chandler - Gaspé ...... 20

Charlevoix - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 20

Clarke Hall - Carleton - Bonaventure ...... 20

Clenville - Bonaventure ...... 20

Coin-du-Banc - Corner of the Beach - Gaspé ...... 21

Cove St. George - St. George’s Cove - County of Gaspé ...... 21

Cox Township - Bonaventure ...... 21

Cross Point - Bonaventure ...... 21

Cullen’s Brook - Bonaventure...... 21

Deeside - Bonaventure...... 21

Dégelis - Cornwallis - Témiscouata ...... 21

Douglastown - Gaspé ...... 22

Elgin Road Settlement - Devon - L'Islet ...... 22

Entry Island - Magdalen Island (Ile de la Madeleine) - Gaspé ...... 22

Escuminac Flats - Bonaventure ...... 22

Escuminac Flatlands Region - Bonaventure ...... 23

Estcourt - Cornwallis - Témiscouata ...... 23

Flatlands - Bonaventure ...... 23

Fleurant - Bonaventure ...... 24

Forillon - Cove St. George - St. George’s Cove - Gaspé ...... 24

Fox Bay - Gaspé ...... 25

Fraserville - Cornwallis - Rivière du Loup ...... 25

Gascons - Chaleur Bay - Bonaventure ...... 25

Gaspé Bay North - Gaspé ...... 25

Gaspé Basin - Gaspé Bay South Township - Gaspé ...... 25

Gaspé Cove - Gaspé ...... 26

Gaspé - Indian Cove - Gaspé ...... 26

Gaspé - Little Gaspé - Gaspé ...... 26

Gaspé Peninsula - Gaspé ...... 26

Grand Cascapédia - Bonaventure ...... 27

Grand Étang - Gaspé ...... 27

Grand Portage - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 27

Grande-Grève - Gaspé...... 27

Grande Rivière - Gaspé ...... 28

Gros Norme - Gaspé ...... 28

Grosse Ile - Cornwallis - Montmagny ...... 28

Grosses Roches – Cornwallis - Matane ...... 28

Hopetown - Port Hope - Bonaventure ...... 28

Indian Cove - Gaspé ...... 29

Ixworth – Cornwallis - Kamouraska ...... 29

Jersey Cove - Rosebridge - Gaspé...... 29

Kakouna - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 29

Kamouraska - Cornwallis - Kamouraska ...... 29

Kaskibijack - Bonaventure ...... 29

Kempt (Road) - Matapédia ...... 29

Kirkyard - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 30

L’Anse à Beaufils - Gaspé ...... 30

L’Anse aux Gascons - Bonaventure ...... 30

L’Anse aux Sauvages - Indian Cove - Gaspé ...... 30

L’Anse du Cap - County of Gaspé ...... 30

L’Anse Pleureuse - Weeping Cove - Gaspé ...... 30

L’Anse St. George - St. George’s Cove - Gaspé ...... 30

La Malbaie - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 30

La Pocatière - Cornwallis - Kamouraska ...... 31

Leggat's Point - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 31

Lellis - Hertford-Devon - Bellechasse ...... 31

Les Éboulements - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 31

L'islet Village - Cornwallis - L'Islet ...... 31

L'Isle-Verte - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 32

Listuguj - Bonaventure ...... 32

Little Gaspé - Gaspé ...... 32

Little Paspébiac - Bonaventure ...... 32

Little Metis – Cornwallis - Matane ...... 32

Madawaska - Cornwallis - Témiscouata ...... 32

Magdalen Isles - Entry Island - Iles de la Madeleine - Gaspé ...... 32

Magdalen Isles - Grindstone - Cap aux Meules - Iles de la Madeleine - Gaspé ...... 33

Magdalen Isles - Grosse Isle - Iles de la Madeleine - Gaspé ...... 33

Magdalen Isles - Leslie - Iles de la Madeleine - Gaspé ...... 33

Magdalen Isles - Old Harry - Iles de la Madeleine - Gaspé ...... 33

Maguasha Point - Bonaventure ...... 33

Malbay - Malbaie - Malbaie Township - Gaspé...... 33

Mann Settlement - Bonaventure ...... 33

Marcil - Bonaventure ...... 33

Maria - Bonanventure ...... 34

Matane – Cornwallis - Matane ...... 34

Matapedia River Valley - Bonaventure ...... 34

Métis Bay - Métis-sur-Mer - Métis - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 35

Métis Bay - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 35

Metis sur Mer – Cornwallis - Matane ...... 35

Millstream - Bonaventure ...... 35

Miquasha - Bonaventure ...... 36

Montmagny - Cornwallis - Montmagny ...... 36

Mont Louis - Gaspé ...... 36

Morris - Gaspé ...... 36

Murdochville - Gaspé ...... 36

Murray Bay - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 36

Murray Mountain - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 36

New Carlisle - Cox Township - Bonaventure ...... 37

New Carlisle & Rural Area - Bonaventure ...... 37

New Lake Township - Bonaventure...... 38

Newport - Gaspé ...... 38

Newport West - Gaspé ...... 38

New Richmond - Bonaventure ...... 38

North Side of Restigouche River - North Side of Restigouche River - Bonaventure ...... 39

Nouvelle - Bonaventure ...... 40

Oak Bay - Bonaventure ...... 40

Old Harry - Gaspé ...... 40

O'Hara's Point - Gaspé ...... 40

Pabos - Gaspé ...... 40

Pabos Mills - Gaspé ...... 40

Packington - Cornwallis - Témiscouata...... 41

Paspébiac - Cox Township - Bonaventure ...... 41

Patton - Cornwallis - L'Islet ...... 41

Peiras - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 41

Peninsula (Péninsule) - Gaspé ...... 42

Penouille - Gaspé ...... 42

Percé - Barachois, Cape Cove, Cap d’Espoir, Douglastown, L’Anse à Beaufils, Malbay - ...... 42

Gaspé ...... 42

Petit Gaspé - Little Gaspé - Gaspé ...... 42

Pinquet - Saint-Damase des Aulnaies - Cornwallis - L'Islet ...... 42

Pointe à la Croix - Bonaventure ...... 43

Pointe à la Garde - Bonaventure ...... 43

Pointe-au-Pic - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 43

Pointe St-Pierre - Point St. Peter - Gaspé ...... 43

Port Daniel - Bonaventure...... 43

Price - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 44

Restigouche - Bonaventure ...... 44

Restigouche River North - North Side of the Restigouche River Bonaventure ...... 45

Rimouski – Cornwallis - Rimouski ...... 45

Rivière-au-Renard - Fox Bay - Gaspé ...... 45

Rivière-du-Loup - Bonaventure ...... 45

Rivière-du-Loup - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 45

Rivière-Ouelle - Cornwallis - Kamouraska ...... 46

Rivière-St-François de la Rive-Sud - Cornwallis - Montmagny ...... 46

Runnymede - Bonaventure ...... 46

Sandy Beach - Cornwallis - Matane ...... 47

Sandy Beach - Baie des Sables - Gaspé...... 47

Sayabec – Cornwallis - Matapédia ...... 47

Sellarsville (Sillarsville) - Bonaventure...... 47

Shigawake - Chaleur Bay - Baie des Chaleurs - Bonaventure ...... 47

Ship Head - Gaspé ...... 48

Shoolbred - Bonaventure ...... 48

Sillarsville - Flatlands - Bonaventure ...... 48

Spring Grove - Arnold’s Point - Gaspé Basin - Gaspé ...... 49

Squatek - Cornwallis - Témiscouata ...... 49

St. George’s Cove - Gaspé ...... 49

Sully - Cornwallis - Témiscouata ...... 49

Tadoussac - Northumberland - Charlevoix ...... 49

Temiscouata - Cornwallis - Temiscouata ...... 49

Tourville - Cornwallis - L'islet ...... 50

Tracadiac - Bonaventure ...... 50

Trois-Pistoles - Cornwallis - Rivière-du-Loup ...... 50

Wakeham - Gaspé Basin - Gaspé...... 50

Weeping Cove - L’Anse Pleureuse - Gaspé ...... 50

York Centre - Gaspé ...... 50

Repositories...... 51

Bibliothèque Archives nationales du Québec ...... 51

United Church Pastoral Charge - Chalmers Wesley United ...... 51

United Church Archives...... 51

New Brunswick Provincial Archives ...... 51

United Church Pastoral Charge ...... 51

United Church Miramichi Presbytery ...... 51

Presbyterian Church Archives ...... 52

Societies ...... 52

Chaleur Library Region - Restigouche County - Campbellton Centennial Library ...... 52

Loyalists of Chaleur Bay ...... 52

Gaspesian British Heritage Village ...... 52

Restigouche Genealogical Society ...... 52

Gaspé Genealogy Database ...... 52

Raymond Garrett Collection ...... 52

Online Sources ...... 52

Ancestry.ca ...... 52

Quebec Records ...... 53

FamilySearch.org Online ...... 53

BAnQ Online Parish Registers ...... 53

Local Churches ...... 53

Contributors or source material:...... 53

Bob Anger, Ken H. Annett, Kim Arnold, Doris Ascah, Joan Benoit, Jim Caputo, Judith Colwell, Cynthia Dow, A.D. Flowers, Raymond Garrett, Kim Harrison, Claire Lindell, David J. McDougall, Jeannine Ouellet, Andy Patterson, Curtis Patterson, Dorothy Phillips, Pennie Redmile, Edith Ritchie, Diane Sawyer, James Sweeny, Peggy Willett...... 53

Counties:

Bellechasse County In 1791 it was referred to as Devon, located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence, east of Dorchester, west of Montmagny (Cornwallis), north of the Maine border - The Anglo Protestants of the county resided in Armagh, Ashburton, Beaumont, Bellechasse, Buckland, Lellis.

Bonaventure A county first settled by members of the Micmac First Nation - In the 1750s, the Acadians arrived - In 1784, the British Loyalists arrived and formed Cox Township. The Anglo Protestants or their descendants can be found in all hamlets, villages and towns of the county including Black Cape, Bonaventure, Caplan, Carleton, Cascapédia, Cox, Escuminiac, Grand Cascapedia, Hamilton, Hope Town, Mann, Maria, Matapédia, Millstream, New Carlisle, New Richmond, North Restigouche, Oak Bay, Paspébiac, Port Daniel, Restigouche, Ristigouche, Sellarsville, Shigawake.

Charlevoix A county on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, previously referred to as Northumberland - Charlevoix is located east of Montmorency county to the Saguenay river, north to Chicoutimi county. Following the British conquest, the centres of the Anglo Protestant presence within the county were Murray Bay and Tadoussac - Anglo Protestant settlers of the region had a

close affiliation with the Ministry Societies of Rivière-du-Loup from about 1800 to 1850

Cornwallis A 1791 territory located south of the St. Lawrence River, southeast of Québec city, from Devon county eastwards along the southshore of the St. Lawrence to Rimouski and beyond - Named for General Charles Cornwallis, the settlements within this vast expense of land in which Anglo Protestants resided were the hamlets and villages of Bungay, Elgin Road Settlement, Ixworth, Kamouraska, Packington, Patton, Pinquet, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup

De Peiras Matane County - A seigniory of the French regime purchased in 1802 by Matthew McNider, a Quebec merchant - The Seigniory would later be renamed Metis, Metis Beach, Leggatt's Point, Price, Kirkyard - Scottish families first arrived in the region in 1818 and a larger group in 1850

Devon A 1791 township located on the southshore of the St. Lawrence River, east of Dorchester county, southeast of Québec city, west of Cornwallis and north of the Maine border - Modern day's county of Devon is Bellechasse - The Anglo Protestants of Devon resided mostly in the 1790's and beyond in the hamlets of Ashford, Ashburton, Beaumont, Bellechasse, Buckland, Lellis - see also Hertford

Gaspé The birthplace of New France (La Nouvelle France) - The Anglo Protestant presence dates back to the 1760's - Channel Islanders from Jersey and Guernsey, Scottish, British, Irish immigrants were all early settlers. About 1784, the United Empire Loyalists arrived in Cox Township on the Chaleurs Bay. Douglastown near present-day Gaspé City, also experienced the arrivals of American families (non-Loyalists), these families might have preceded those of Cox Township

Hertford A township of 1792 located east of the counties of Beauce and Lotbinière in a region described as Lower St. Lawrence - Hertford and Devon became Bellechase.

Kamouraska Located east of of L'Islet County along the shores of the St. Lawrence - In 1791 the region was part of Cornwallis - The Protestantism presence was limited to the village of Kamouraska for a short period of time.

L'Islet Located east of Montmagny County on the southshore of the St. Lawrence. In 1791, the region was part of Cornwallis - The hamlets and villages of Pinquet, Elgin Road, Aulnaies

and Tourville had a Protestantism presence in the region.

Matane Located on the Lower St. Lawrence, east of Rimouski - From 1818 the Anglo Protestants mostly from Scotland settled the region in hamlets such as Metis, Leggatt's Point, Price, Kirkyard and the village of Matane, the latter now a small city.

Matapédia An interior county within the Gaspé Peninsula, southwest of Matane county, east of Rimouski county, north of Bonaventure county. The Anglo Protestant presence within this county was limited to the villages of Sayabec, Kempt (Road) and Matapédia River Valley - The first Protestants were from Scotland in the 1790s, although, few in numbers, the hamlets and villages they pioneered still have a small Scottish presence in the 21st century. Montmagny The region is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, south-east of Québec city - A county which was known as Cornwallis in 1791 - Anglo Protestants, a few families resided in the village of Patton and a few families in Montmagny - The situation was quite different on an island off Montmagny by the name of Grosse Isle (Grosse Ile), the unfortunate and troubling "Quarantine Station" of 1832 to 1937, in which too many Irish, Scottish and British immigrants died from malnutrition and various typhoid epidemics and were buried on the island

Northumberland A 1791 territory which stretched along the northern shores of the St. Lawrence from Cap Tourmente (just east of Québec City) to the North Shore of the St. Lawrence at the Labrador border to points north toward Saguenay County - Northumberland is now Charlevoix county and the southern portion of Saguenay county along the northern shore of the St. Lawrence

Rimouski Located east of Rivière-du-Loup county, west of Matane and Matapédia counties, northeast of Témiscouata county, north of New Brunswick.

Rivière-du-Loup Located on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence between the county of Kamouraska to the west and Rimouski county to the east and Témiscouata county to the south.

Témiscouata - Located between the county of Rivière-du-Loup and New Brunswick - In the 1790's, Fur Traders first settled the area, among them Scottish adventurers who established the hamlet of Packington, a village now referred to as Saint-Benoît-Abbé

Towns

Armagh - Devon - Hertford - Bellechasse Located north of Buckland, east of St. Clare (Sainte-Claire de Dorchester) within Bellechasse, the latter county was referred to as Devon county in the 1791 time frame - Please note; many church documents will