When Eustache Jean Augustin Rocan dit Bastien was born on 18 January 1783, in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval, Quebec, Canada, his father, Francois Pierre Rocan Bastien, was 29 and his mother, Marie Françoise Cassé Lacasse, was 29. He married Marguerite Charbonneau on 13 February 1809, in Sandwich, Essex, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 28 June 1867, in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
Probably an altered form of German Rothan, a nickname meaning ‘red John’ for someone with red hair, from Middle High German rōt ‘red’ + Han, a short form of Johannes .
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