Joseph Octave Wilfrid Rivard b. 26 Jun 1897 St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 9 Sep 1947 Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA: Our Family History

Joseph Octave Wilfrid Rivard

1897 - 1947 (50 years)

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Name	Joseph Octave Wilfrid Rivard
Birth	26 Jun 1897	St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
Gender	Male
Death	9 Sep 1947	Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA
Burial	Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States of America [3]
Person ID	I292227839440	Alwin2025
Last Modified	23 Apr 2025

Father	Elisée Rivard, b. 6 août 1857, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada d. 16 Mar 1925, St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Age 68 years)
Mother	Marie Emma Dionne, b. 30 mai 1859, Québec, Quebec, Canada d. 8 Sep 1932, St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Age 73 years)
Marriage	5 fév 1883	St-Pascal, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada [4]
Family ID	F8118	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Veronique Deschenes, b. 10 Aug 1899, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada d. 16 Oct 1977, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA (Age 78 years)

Marriage 3 Sep 1917 Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA

Children

1. Carmen G Rivard, b. 30 Nov 1929, Lewiston

d. 7 Sep 2015, Maine

(Age 85 years)

Family ID F767 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 23 Apr 2025

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[S966834856] Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.

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My earliest European ancestors in North America were probably Nicolas Marsolet and Louis Hébert. However, one of my 8th great-grandmothers, the wife of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, was a Native North American of the Mi'kmaq tribe. Unfortunately, there is uncertainty about her name. She may have been called Kjipuktuk. In modern times, the name Marie Coyote Blanc has been assigned to her, but there is no evidence that this was actually her name. Her ancestors would obviously been in North America long before Europeans arrived.

The French-Canadian lines of my family tree can be confirmed by literaly thousands of DNA links that support the family tree as mapped out. And, due to a couple of lucky DNA links to 3rd cousins in Sweden, with well-documented family trees of their own, I can extend my Swedish roots back several centuries. The German links have proved much more difficult, and in most cases, I have been unable to trace my German ancestors much further back in time than their arrival in North America.