Nicolas Couc and Elisabeth Templair

http://www.saurette.com/retrospect/index.php?m=family&id=I00575

Nicolas Couc who married Elisabeth Templair. Hailed from Cognac, St. Onge, France near Toulouse. (Ottomans in c. 1560?)
Their son, Pierre Couc Lafleur came to Canada and settled at Trois-Rivieres where he married an Algonquin woman named Marie M________. One of their descendants was Gaboriau(lt) dit Lapalme who settled in the Farnham/St. Dominique region.

Looks like Lapalme was originally Gaboriault

http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/nicolas.htm

St. Dominique family branches: Lapalme and Sinotte

Sinotte family of St. Dominique:
http://sinotteloisellegenealogy.wordpress.com/



Pierre Leduc and the Soleil d'Afrique:
http://blogue_a_andre.monblogue.branchez-vous.com/2008/07/06
Regiment of Carignan-Salieres.

Here we are:
Euphemie Sinotte Loiselle b. unknown d. unknown m. Joseph Lapalme, July 30 1877 (he hailed from Ste. Rosalie Bagot, Quebec.
Their daughter was Antoinette Lapalme. She would have been born c. 1900.
Euphemie's father: Louis Sinotte Loiselle b. January 20, 1852 at St. Dominique
Euphemie's mother: Marie Maurice b. Jan 20, 1852 at St. Dominique, Bagot, Quebec.
Euphemie's maternal grandparents: Marie Tetreault m. July 27 1830 to Joseph Maurice (St. Jean Baptiste, Rouville, Quebec)
Marie Tetreault's parents: Marie and Francois Tetreault.
Joseph Maurice's parents: Paul Maurice and Marie Appolline Prevost.
Euphemie's paternal grandparents:

Pierre Leduc et "le soleil d'afrique"

Pierre Leduc est venu au Canada en 1691 a bord "Le Soleil d'Afrique", un fregate navale de l'armee Francaise. It departed from La Rochelle on April 27, 1688 with fifty soldiers and 25 recruits. (Pierre Leduc was one of these? I've read that he was a <> - a cauldron maker, metal worker with the French army. We know that he was born in the little parish of St. Laurent(?), just outside Rouen, Haute-Normandie in 1645, to Pierre Leduc Sr. and Anne Martin. In 1688 when the soleil d'afrique set sail, he would have been 43. They reached Quebec on June 3, 1688. The commanding officer was one, Denonville. Bonaventure fits in there somewhere. He was another senior officer or the captain. I have also read somewhere that these soldiers were in the <>. I'm assuming this was the name of their regiment. I had read elsewhere that Pierre arrived in 1691, and that the soleil d'afrique first stopped at Louisbourg. So I'm not sure how this all fits together. But here you have the facts. Pierre Leduc married Catherine Fortin, daughter of Louis Fortin from Evreux (also in Haute Normandie), and they settled on a small farm on Ile-Perot (near Montreal). The freeway there apparently runs through where there farm used to be. Seven or eight generations later my great grandfather, Godfrey Leduc was born (c. 1901) at St. Timothee, near Salaberry de Valleyfield, in the Beauharnois region. He moved to Alberta in 1920 and became a farmer. His wife, Antoinette LaPalme, was from St. Dominique, Quebec (near St. Hyacinthe), and they married in c. 1929. They met while Antoinette was out visiting her LaPalme relatives in Wainwright, Alberta. Her parents were Josephe Lapalme and Euphemie Sinotte Loiselle of St. Dominique, Bagot, Quebec. I would like to find out more about the LaPalme and Sinotte family lines one day. How did they come to New France? Which part of France were they from? Etc.
I've recorded this so that I don't forget it. Hopefully you find some of it useful.

Of Diabetic Ethiopians and Wheelchair Users: Organizing Society into groups based on health condition

I think the world was a better place when all the nations, creeds, races, and relgions lived separate lives. It seems that in Canada today there is simply too much diversity. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that I feel immigrants, etc. don't belong in Canada. No, no, no. What I'm saying is that I don't believe in the concept of diversity. That we can all just get along. No. It doesn't work. The white man and the Aborginal didn't get along. The French and the English didn't get along. (Alot of them still don't get along. And why? Because there are few commonalities between them. There are few "points of reference" between different groups of people. For example: A new Canadian from Ethiopia drives a taxi cab. He picks up a white, fourth-generation Canadian passenger. They're the same age. Okay, so they have that going for them. Maybe they both have kids and they can talk about that. But what does that Ethiopian man know about hockey? What does that Canadian man know about the swahili language? What does the Ethiopian man know about local property taxes? What does the Canadian know about Ethiopian cuisine?

My point is that we don't all mix. We can't all get along. The reason this is important is because this relates to disease and chronic illness.

I myself suffer from Type 1 diabetes. If I lived in a "city" where everyone was a type 1 diabetic I wouldn't fear going blind, losing my legs, dying young. That would be the norm! It would be like everyday stuff. As it stands now though, living in a world of healthier, non-diabetic people, I'm scared. I'm scared that I'll one day lose my sight, my leg - my independence. If I had people all around me that knew all about my condition because they suffered from it too - everything in that "city" would be organized to work around the disease. There would be more break times at work. There would be juice and cookies stationed throughout the city in little booths for when our sugar goes low and we're out and about. Things like that. Is that not worth something? Forget what I said about the race/creed/religion stuff. I actually know an Ethopian diabetic. How about we divide ourselves health? Wheelchair people all together (everything would be wheelchair accessible), the blind all together (could be challenging), the diabetics together, the MS sufferers together, and so on. Life then in those "cities" would be geared toward whatever was wrong with the populace. As it stands now, any MS sufferer, disabled person, or diabetic feels different, left out, socially outcasted.

Slammer Two-Step

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjItY7X0Yc&feature=fvst

Dancing lessons have been organized for prisoners of Cebu prisoners in the Philippines. Amazing.

Life in a Thai Prison

Just when you thought your life sucked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiGyGS6u8M&NR=1

Drug addiction should not be treated as an offense in the eyes of the law. Drug addiction is an illness. Perpetrators should be REHABILITATED and TREATED not punished and imprisoned.