By Robert Walter Hicks March, 2023

By Ellen McLaughlin Harford  Written February, 2023  

From an email from Donna Gitter Haack to Patricia Balkcom in early 2023: "I am a first cousin of Ellen McLaughlin Harford. Her father, Daniel McLaughlin, and my mother, Bernice McLaughlin Gitter, were siblings living on a farm in the Township of Lebanon, Waupaca...

Curtis Billing - Ancestor Profile  

Edited by Kenneth Veitch of The European Ethnological Research Center, University of Edinburgh, 2022 From Professor Veitch - "The Neilson book is only available in electronic form. All our edited sources, however, are published under a Creative Commons license CC...

This work was completed by Clayton Billing before his death and submitted to the website by his son, Kevin Billing.

Written by Patricia Balkcom, October 2019             Michael Cassin and his wife, Margaret Kelly, were one of the original families of Valcartier, Quebec.  It is difficult to pinpoint the exact time of their...

Submitted by D. Clark McIntosh, August, 2019 A letter to William Clark, the son of John Clark and Eleanor Billing who lived in Riviere aux Pins. Valcartier, PQ Oct 21, 1898 My Dear William I was so glad to hear again from you last week, for I was beginning to fear I...

From the Quebec Telegraph, August 6, 1917, page 4

From the Quebec Telegraph Newspaper, August 27, 1917, page 4

Images and Letters used with permisson from Amos Thomas McDonald, great-grandson of Addie Neilson ThomasAddie Margaret Neilson Thomas  1862 - 1937Click to see letters

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by Patricia Balkcom, revised December, 2018

By D. Clark McIntosh, 2016

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by D. Clark McIntosh, March, 2016 (Hover your mouse over the arrow at the bottom of the page, to go to the next page)

by Audrey, Charles, and Faye Mckinley, May 2014 (At the bottom of each page, hover your mouse to find the arrow to go to the next page)

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by Marjorie Goodfellow My great, great grandfather Robert Goodfellow emigrated from Scotland about 1820. As yet, no record of embarkation or debarkation has been found. Why did he come? It is assumed that he landed in Quebec, but that is not proven. With whom did he...

by Audrey Henderson, 2012 It appears there are 2 females of the same name - Susannah McKinley – who lived in the area of Valcartier, at the same time, in the eighteen hundreds. One Susannah McKinley married William Henderson, I will refer to as her as Susannah-1. The...

by Audrey, Charles and Faye Henderson, April 2012 John Henderson (1791-1864) and Elizabeth Brown (1797-1873) Their Children and Families Preface The Henderson's family history was initially undertaken by my cousin Charles Henderson. Charlie conducted his research...

Delia was the wife of Thomas Knox.  This has been kindly provided by her great-great granddaughter, Melanie Goodfellow. The book was was started by Delia when she was 20 years old in 1889 and added to until 1894. Mary A Billing, Valcartier Jan. 15 1889Grant Ireland,...

This biography was researched and written by Dennis McLane of Boise, Idaho.  He maintains a website entitled, Frampton Irish.  With his kind permission I have reprinted it here. "The theme of this blog is Catholic priest, the Reverend John O’Grady. I was inspired to...

Unknown Author Ellen McLaughlin was born July 15, 1865 in St. Gabriel de Valcartier, Quebec, daughter of John McLaughlin and Mary Hartery. She married Robert Hill born May 16, 1867 in St. Gabriel de Valcartier on October 10, 1893. Shortly after the marriage, they left...

by Nelson Ireland and Evelyn Ireland Jewel, grandchildren of Curtis McBain; written April 6, 1988 CURTIS McBAIN 1846-1905 and his wife CAROLINE WARD lived in the Settlement of Valcartier, today known as Valcartier Village. Their residence stood on the site of what...

by William Cochrane Owen Murphy, Ex-Mayor of Quebec City, was born in Stoneham, Province of Quebec December 9th, 1829. His father was a member of the highly esteemed family of Murphys, of Ballainoulart House, County Wexford , Ireland, and was a man of peculiarly high...

by Vanessa Gagne William Murphy was a native of Westmeath, Ireland. He was the son of John Murphy and Biddy McGrath. We have no knowledge of when he arrived in Canada. He was born in 1817 and died April 17, 1877. He was buried in St  Gabriel de Valcartier Cemetery....

by Bernard Monaghan, 1985; edited by Patricia Balkcom, April, 2019 Family of Anthony Madden and Eleanor Calback Anthony Madden and his wife Eleanor Calback must have been married in Ireland and arrived in Valcartier in the early 1800s. They settled on a lot on the...

At the same time I also obtained the following excerpt from the Register of the Church of the parish.  On this 23rd day of June 1866, we the undersigned priest, have interred in the cemetery of this parish, the body of Marie-Ursule Hubert, wife of the late Hon....

by Jack Griffin Jimmy Poole (Powell) was a native of Lismore,  County Waterford. and went to Newfoundland from Ireland, later coming to Quebec and eventually to the Valcartier/St. Catherine district. His seems to have been a very adventuresome spirit for not long...

Johnny Donaldson tells me that the famous phantom train, which traveled the tracks of the old Gosford and Quebec-Lake St. John railroads in the early days began its ghostly journeying after Jack Murphy of Pine River was killed by a train near Scott's Corner - near...

by Thomas Aldcorn, letter written to his relatives edited by Patricia Balkcom, July, 2014 Salem, Ontario, July 3, 1937 Dear Friends: As it is impossible to give each of you a copy of our family tree as it is presented here, I have written a short history of the family...

William McBain died September 4, 1937. He was the son of Arthur McBain and Margaret Loughren.