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Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American folk hero and the descendant of one Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV, whose family converted to Protestantism, fled France and settled in the north of Ireland. [677] Philippe de Corguilleray, colonist, French Antarctique. [678] Louis de Freycinet, French ...
The Huguenot Society of Canada is an organization which published the Huguenot Trails publication from 1968 to 2003. [1] In 1985, it organized a conference to study Huguenot heritage in Canada. [ 2 ]
Some Huguenot descendants in the Netherlands may be noted by French family names, although they typically use Dutch given names. Due to the Huguenots' early ties with the leadership of the Dutch Revolt and their own participation, some of the Dutch patriciate are of part-Huguenot descent.
Sicard, a Huguenot, brought his family to British America in 1688 to escape religious persecution. Although a few of his descendants were active as Patriots during the American Revolution, a significant number were Loyalists who joined British provincial regiments such as Butler's Rangers, and afterwards settled in what is now Ontario and New ...
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American families of Huguenot ancestry (20 C, 1 P) B. Bosanquet family (11 P) C. Cazenove family (8 P) Constant de Rebecque (6 P) Courtauld family (15 P) D. De ...
Ontario would become the most populous province in the Dominion of Canada at the time of Confederation, and, together with Montreal, formed the country's industrial heartland and emerged as an important cultural and media centre for English Canada. English, Scottish, and Irish communities established themselves in Montreal throughout the 1800s.
English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The names can also be derived from places founded by people with English surnames.