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Dictionary of Canadian Biography online..... . HACHÉ-GALLANT, MICHEL (the name was originally Larché; the forms Haché, dit Gallant, Galan, and Galand also appear), settler in Acadia and Île St-Jean (Prince Edward Island), founder of the Haché and the Gallant families of the Maritimes; b. c. 1663, d. 1737. . Michel Haché-Gallant's origins are obscure. He is probably the son of Pierre Larché, originally of the parish of St-Pierre in Montdidier, bishopric of Beauvais, and of Adrienne Langlois. Pierre Larché had died by 1668, and Michel was raised in Trois-Rivières at the home of Jacques Leneuf* de La Poterie, father of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière, senior. The latter seems to have taken Michel Larché with him to Acadia to his seigneury of Beaubassin. Rameau de St-writes of La Vallière and his seigneury, "among the indentured employees, we find . . . an active and intelligent young man named Haché Galand, who was [La Vallière's] business representative, serjeant-at-arms, and confidential agent." In 1690 Michel Haché married Anne Cormier; they had 12 children, 7 boys and 5 girls. At the time of his marriage he was described as militia captain of the Beaubassin shore. . After the loss of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) to the English under Francis Nicholson in 1710 and the subsequent cession of Acadia to England by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, a number of Acadians moved to the nearby French possessions of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Île St-Jean. Michel Haché was among these; in 1720 he moved with his family to Île St-Jean and settled at Port La Joie (near Charlottetown), a settlement which had just been founded. He was named port captain of Port La Joie about that time, and he and his wife were among the most respected settlers there. . Michel Haché-Gallant went through the ice at the mouth of the Rivière du Nord (North River) and was drowned on 10 April 1737. His body was recovered on 17 July and he was buried in the cemetery of Port La Joie the same day. . Patrice Gallant . AN, Col., C11B, 1, ff.104–5; Section Outre-Mer, G1, 411, f.31; 466 (Recensements de l'Acadie). Placide Gaudet, Notes généalogiques (preserved in PAC and Archives de l'université de Moncton). Tanguay, Dictionnaire, I, 589. Arsenault, Hist. et généal. des Acadiens, II, 590–91. Patrice Gallant, Michel Haché-Gallant et ses descendants (1v. paru, Rimouski, 1958), I, 3–10. Rameau de St- , Une colonie féodale, I, 171. ==================================== Subject: Michel Hache dit Gallant from Stephen A. White Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:43:13 -0500 << When I published the DGFA-1, I did not know where Father Patrice Gallant got the idea that his ancestor was a Métis in the first place. This situation has since changed, as I announced on page 20 of our bulletin Contact-Acadie (No. 34) at the end of 2004. The gist of the matter is that Placide Gadet collected some traditional information from the Gautrots at Pré-d'en-Haut in 1884 to the effect that their ancestor Anne Belliveau was the daughter of a Métisse. Certain church records, which Gaudet did not have at that time, show that Anne Belliveau's mother was Michel Haché's daughter Louise. We also have learned since 1884 that Louise's mother was Anne Cormier, so Louise's Native blood must have come from her father, rather than from her mother. Other Haché-Gallant family traditions might have led ather Gallant to proceed as he did in his own research, or he might have seen this item in Gaudet's notes, but whatever the case, this Gautrot testimony is quite good evidence to show that Michel Haché was Métis. . Working from the presumption that his ancestor was Métis, and knowing that the first mention of Michel "Larcher" in Acadia shows him working for the LeNeuf family, who came to Acadia from Trois-Rivières, Father Gallant apparently concluded that he was the same Michel whose baptism was recorded at Trois-Rivières in 1668. This is possible, but we still have no proof whatsoever that this was indeed the same child. If it was, there still seems to be a problem with the fact that the record states that the child was born in Acadie of a French mother and an Eskimo mother. . We know that there were no Eskimos in Acadia, so how could this be? As I explained further in the Contact-Acadie item just cited, a researcher named Denis Jean provided me with a plausible explanation. The Jesuit Relations show that during the mid-1600's the Mi'kmaq made raids from time to time against the Montagnais living on the Côte du Nord, bringing back Montagnaise women to Cape Breton, and at that same period the French called the Montagnais les petits Esquimaux. So, if we read the baptism at Trois-Rivières in 1668 as meaning that the child Michel was the son of a Petite Esquimaude, i.e., a Montagnaise, then the allegation that the child had been born in Acadia and had a French father makes sufficiently good sense, for we know that Cape Breton was then considered part of Acadia and that there were both Frenchmen and Montagnaise women present there. . This still does not mean that the baptism at Trois-Rivières was necessarily Michel Haché's, but it does mean that it is entirely plausible that it was, at least to the extent that the "(sic)" after the word Esquimaude in the extract cited in a message can now be stricken out. The "peut-être" preceding the name Pierre Larcher must remain, however, because Father Gallant's arguments making him out to be Michel Haché's father are still hypothetical and lacking substantiation.>> . © Stephen A. White, Genealogist,Centre d'études acadiennes 26 Mar 2006 .Thank you P __._,_.___
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