Person:Pierre Miville (1)

• Isaac Milville and Salome Lomene were Pierre's godparents. (from http://www.miville.com/miville4/135.html)
• Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 1000-1700 (Volume I)

"MIVILLE, PIERRE, known as Le Suisse, master-joiner, pioneer and captain of the Lauson shore: d. 14 Oct. 1669. Swiss by birth, Miville came to Canada via La Rochelle at a date that has not been established with certainty but that was previous to 28 Oct. 1649, on which date he, along with his son François, received from the governor, Louis d’Ailleboust, a grant of land in the seigneury of Lauson, which was later raised to the status of an arriere-fief. Miville apparently tried to entice some of his compatriots to Canada. In fact, on 16 July 1665, M. de Prouville de Tracy granted him, along with his sons and four other persons, a concession measuring 21 arpents by 40 at Grande Anse (La Pocatière), naming the locality “the Canton of the Fribourg Swiss.” This undertaking was unsuccessful. Pierre Miville stayed at Lauson until his death, 14 Oct. 1669. In France he had married Charlotte Maugis, who bore him six children at least; one of them, Jacques, was the founder of the Miville-Deschênes families of North America.

Honorius Provost

“Le canton de Suisses Fribourgeois,” BRH, XX (1914), 233f. L-E. Roy, Histoire de la seigneurie de Lauzon, I, 69–71."

• de Fribourg Suisse; Capitaine de la côte de Lauzon; menuisier
• One of his descendants died at Louisianna, USA at the age of 120. rec'd appointment of Capt. of Lauzon coast.

1. ↑ FrancoGene.
2.   Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
   Volume I, 1000-1700.

   http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=473&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=egpvnpiflr2t3smvu6p6163e56