Norman Canadians are Canadians whose ancestors came from the Duchy of Normandy.
List of Norman Canadians and notable Norman settlers Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor. Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec.Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 108-109. Pierre Boucher: Governor of Trois-Rivières, namesake of Boucherville.Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 86-87. Jean Brebeuf: missionary, wrote a grammar and dictionary in the Wyandot language.The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig Publishers Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, (1988) p 267. Guillaume Couture: missionary, translator, diplomat, militia captain. Jacques Le Ber: merchant and lord at Montreal. Julien Dubuque: third generation Norman Canadian, namesake of Dubuque, Iowa. Charles Hus, dit Millet third generation Norman Canadian, political figure. Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior: third generation Norman Canadian, frontiersman, trapper and fur trader.
List surnames of Norman origin found in Canada More than two million people in Quebec have a name of Norman origin. Anctil: a variant spelling of Anquetil. Bellemare: common family name in Mauricie. Bérubé: originates in the Pays de Caux. Carpentier: a surname from Picardy and Upper Normandy. Coté Gagné Gagnon Hébert: Norman variant of Herbert. Huneault (Toussaint Huneault was a Norman who was one of the first settlers in New France in the early 1600’s) Normand Talbot Toupin which was previously Toutain/Tostain (dit Dussault; Toussaint Toupin was a founding settler in New France and is 100% genetically Norman and a descendant of Thorstein a companion of Rollo) Ratelle (Ratel "Dit Dragon") a name from Rouen. Roy: Norman surname (also Leroy), meaning "king". Tremblay Trépanier.Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 11.
List of Canadian places named after places in Normandy Dieppe, New Brunswick: named in the memory of the 913 Canadians who were killed during the Dieppe Raid in the Second World War. Honfleur, Quebec
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