L'Assomption River makes a water cul-de-sac for the village |
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Rivets: Along L'Assomption River
The region of the world where the Rivets lived and loved, worked and played before they went south! - Click on the link in the previous sentence, hold on and the map will eventually appear. Then click on the red dots to see the villages and cities along the L'Assomption River. Although the Rivets started first families in Repentigny, they dispersed into different communities along this river including St Côme, St Alphonse, St. Melanie, Joliette and L'Assomption.
Labels:
Assomption River,
Quebec,
Rivet
Location:
L'Assomption, QC, Canada
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