Francois BOUVETTE b. 1834

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	NAME: Francois BOUVETTE Metis ~ 1/8 RED LAKE CHIPPEWA aka Francis Bouvet
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	BIRTH: September 23, 1834 Parish of St. Andrews, Lisgar Co., Manitoba Another BIRTH DATE: Bouvet, Francis; born: October 30, 1834 Probably not accurate, likely to obtain Land Script as a Canadian Metis: Scrip affidavit for Bouvet, Francis; born: October 30, 1834; father: Francois Bouvet (French Cdn.); mother: Marguerite Marchand (Métis) IMAGE #1 IMAGE #2
	BAPTISM: BIOGRAPHY: Ancient Register of St Boniface B-863, Francois Bouvet, baptised 23 September 1834, born this morning of the legitimate marriage of Francois Bouvet and Marguerite Marchand, Godfather: Louis Galarneau, Godmother: Julie Marchand, J. B. Thibault priest. (page 147)
	MOTHER: MARCHAND, Marguerite b 1815 1/4 RED LAKE CHIPPEWA
	FATHER: BOUVETTE, Francois Xavier b 1796
	SIBLINGS: All RR Metis ~ 1/8 RED LAKE CHIPPEWA BOUVETTE, Marie ~ 1837 BOUVETTE, Charles Emile ~ 1838 BOUVETTE, Helene Marie ~ 1843 BOUVETTE, Benjamin ~ 1846 BOUVETTE, Esther ~ 1848 BOUVETTE, Amable ~ 1851 BOUVETTE, Caroline ~ 1852 BOUVETTE, Louis ~ 1856
	MARRIAGE: January 8, 1861 ~ Saint-Boniface, Manitoba Francois Bouvette, son of Francois Bouvette and Marguerite Marchand, married 8 January 1861, in the chapel of the Hospital of the Sisters Grise, Marie Anne Gaudry, daughter of Andre Gaudry and Madeleine David, Witnesses: Francois Xavier Bouvette and Louis Thibault Ch. Mestre priest.
	SPOUSE: GAUDRY, Marie b 1844
	CHILDREN: (Per St. Boniface Records) BOUVETTE, William "Frank" Francois 1861 BOUVETTE, Eléonore "Nora" 1863 BOUVETTE, Joseph Edmund 1866 BOUVETTE, Caroline 1868 BOUVETTE, Alfred 1872 BOUVETTE, Edmond 1873 BOUVETTE, Emma 1875
	LIFE EVENTS: Severe drought occurred throughout the 1860s. As well, grasshoppers infested the settlement and a scarlet fever outbreak in 1864 carried off a large number of the population. The settlement's crops were destroyed each year between 1862 and 1865 and again in 1868. The latter year also witnessed the absence of small game near the settlement, the failure of the buffalo hunt, and the collapse of the fisheries.
	QUESTIONS & NOTES: Is Marie GAUDRY his second wife? His Son FRANK lists this one's BIRTH Place as MINNESOTA on the 1930 Michigan CENUS PEMBINA was in Minnesota before it was in ND. His Son FRANK lists this one's BIRTH Place as UNITED STATES on the 1891 YALE BC CENSUS
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He was a FRIEGHTER:
Dr. J. Bouvette: The story we were told is our
Great Grandfather Francois (this page) drove
an Ox Cart on the Red River Ox Cart trail for
Norman Kittson from Winnepeg to St. Cloud Minn.

(note: Also reported as working for the "Bender Outfit.")

GARNEAU's HISTORY 1854:
(note: Francois BOUVETTE, this page, is 20 years old at
the time reported about here in Garneau's historical notes for 1854)

Fifteen hundred Red-River Carts a year are making the trip between
Red River, North West Territories and St. Paul, Missouri (Minnesota)
Territories. This trading route is Metis controlled. The semi-annual
bison hunt is also Metis controlled.

A report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs noted that a hunting party of
824 (Red River) carts and 1,300 Michif (Metis), led by Governor (leader of
the hunt) Wilkie, are residents of Pembina and its vicinity (Red River);
on the Pembina river and on the Pembina mountain.

Whilst at home, they engage in agriculture, cultivating their farms and
raising their crops of wheat, corn, potatoes, and barley. They raise about
twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre; cultivating an average of about
fifteen acres. They are industrious and frugal in their habits, are mostly
of the Romish (French Roman Catholic) persuasion, and lead virtuous
and pious lives.

Father Belcourt reported that there were 2,000 Metis living
at Pembina, Red River.

ABOUT THE KITTSON CART TRAINS:
(Source unknown)

One of the ambitions of Lord Selkirk was to protect trading interests of
the Hudson's Bay Company. On the other hand, Prairie du Chien was
the center from which a great deal of competitive fur trading was being
carried out against Hudson's Bay. One man from Prairie du Chien who
joined the ranks of the competitors of the Hudson's Bay Company was
Joseph Rolette. His father Joseph had settled in Prairie du Chien where
the younger Joseph was born about 1820. It was the younger Joseph
Rolette who, in joining forces with Norman W. Kittson in the 1840s,
brought northwestern Minnesota into the realm of growing St. Paul and
away from the orbit of the British control fed Hudson's Bay Company.
In 1843 he began the 'Cartline' to fetch American goods from St. Paul
to Pembina. Within ten years almost two hundred Red River carts were
regularly engaged in the five-or six-weeks' journey on the 'Cartline', the
annual value of the furs carried to the States had risen to about twenty
thousand dollars, the American Fur company established its headquarters
at St. Paul in 1849, and several other companies rose to share in the
promising trade."

........... The Rolette and Kittson enterprise between Pembina and
St. Paul which continued until the late 1860s brings us to the period
of intense settlement in Red Lake County.

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