When Thomas Levesque was born on 14 October 1810, in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada, his father, Thomas Noel Levesque, was 23 and his mother, Magdeleine Landry, was 19. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Jane Welch. He lived in Seymour Township, Trent Hills, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died in 1898, in Seymour Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 88.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Normand, Armand, Lucien, Marcel, Rosaire, Emile, Gilles, Pierre, Jacques, Adrien, Raoul.
French: from Old French évesque ‘bishop’ (from Latin episcopus; see Bishop ), with fused definite article l', hence an occupational name for a member of a bishop's household, or an ironic nickname for a solemn person. Compare Laveck , Leveck , and Leveque .
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