Brief Life History of Sigefroi
When Sigefroi Lapalme was born on 15 March 1862, in Embrun, Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada, his father, Sigefroi Jansen dit Lapalme, was 36 and his mother, Herméline Arméline Gagnon, was 23. He married Helene Emard on 9 November 1886, in Embrun, Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Russell, Upper Canada, British North America in 1901 and Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 6 February 1937, in Embrun, Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Embrun, Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada.
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- Sipaid Lapalm, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Segefroid Lapalm, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Sigefroid Lapalme, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (6)
1867 · Ontario Founded
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Jacques, Andre, Armand, Benoit, Philias, Pierre, Regean.
French: from la palme ‘the palm leaf’, used as a nickname for a pilgrim who brought back a palm leaf from Jerusalem. This surname is very rare in France. Compare Lapan and Lapham .
History: In North America, this surname was originally a secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name, borne by Pierre Janson dit Lapalme from Paris, France, who married Ursule Rancin in Quebec City, QC, in 1689, and by Jean Gaboriau dit Lapalme from Saint-Jérôme in Gironde, France, who married Marguerite-Françoise Boileau in Chambly, QC, in 1732. Their descendants also bear the surnames Janson and Gaboriau , respectively.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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