Norman Canadians

Norman Canadians are Canadians whose ancestors came from the Duchy of Normandy.

List of Norman Canadians and notable Norman settlers

• Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor.
• Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal.
• René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec. ^[1]
• Pierre Boucher: Governor of Trois-Rivières, namesake of Boucherville. ^[2]
• Jean Brebeuf: missionary, wrote a grammar and dictionary in the Wyandot language. ^[3]
• Guillaume Couture: missionary, translator, diplomat, militia captain.
• Jacques Le Ber: merchant and lord at Montreal.
• Julien Dubuque: third generation Norman Canadian, namesake of Dubuque, Iowa.
• Charles Hus, dit Millet third generation Norman Canadian, political figure.
• Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior: third generation Norman Canadian, frontiersman, trapper and fur trader.

List surnames of Norman origin found in Canada

More than two million people in Quebec have a name of Norman origin. ^[4]

• Anctil: a variant spelling of Anquetil.
• Bellemare: common family name in Mauricie.
• Bérubé: originates in the Pays de Caux.
• Carpentier: a surname from Picardy and Upper Normandy.
• Coté ^[4]
• Gagné ^[4]
• Gagnon ^[4]
• Hébert: Norman variant of Herbert.
• Huneault (Toussaint Huneault was a Norman who was one of the first settlers in New France in the early 1600’s)
• Normand
• Talbot
• Toupin which was previously Toutain/Tostain (dit Dussault; Toussaint Toupin was a founding settler in New France and is 100% genetically Norman and a descendant of Thorstein a companion of Rollo)
• Ratelle (Ratel "Dit Dragon") a name from Rouen.
• Roy: Norman & Anglo-Norman, meaning "King". ^[4]
• Tremblay ^[4]
• Trépanier. ^[5]

List of Canadian places named after places in Normandy

• Dieppe, New Brunswick: named in the memory of the 913 Canadians who were killed during the Dieppe Raid in the Second World War.
• Honfleur, Quebec

References

1. Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 108-109.
2. Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 86-87.
3. The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig Publishers Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, (1988) p 267.
4. Raulin, François (3 November 2017). "Les "cousins" québécois au chevet du tourisme normand". Le Point (in French). Le Point. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
5. Canada-Québec Synthèse Historique, Montréal, (1977) pp 11.