A bit of history . . .
In 1980, Mr. Lucien Florent, from Trois-Rivières, and some friends decided to form an association:
Since 1985, it is affiliated to the Fédération des familles souches du Québec. The main goals of this association are:
Tracing the maximum descendants of the ancestor Louis Pinard (1634-1695) they are called Pinard, Beauchemin, Fleurant, Fleurent, Florent, Lauzier, Lauzière, Raîche, Raich and others.
Proceed with the creation of a Genealogical since 1600 to the present.
Fraternize together.
Who is Louis Pinard ?
Here are a part of the text of the certificate of baptism of Louis Pinard archives at Ste-Marguerite-Marie Parish, La Rochelle in France. «In this twelfth day of July, one thousand six hundred thirty four we ...»
In 1647, aged 13, Louis Pinard, son of Jean Pinard and Marguerite Gaigneur, left La Rochelle in France to come to Nouvelle France as given by the Jesuits. On July 24, 1648, his first trip took him to Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons, the first European community in Canada, now Midland, Ontario. Distance of more than 1200 km from the community of Kébec, Louis lived in company of the Jesuit Fathers Jean de Brebeuf, Charles Garnier and Gabriel Lalemand to the destruction of the mission by the Iroquois in June 1649. They took refuge on the Île des Chrétiens. In 1650, Louis and his companions undertake the arduous journey back to Kébec on July 28th 1650. His term ended, Louis returned to France August 23rd 1650 to study.
Source : Le journal des Jésuites, par les abbés Laverdière et Casgrain, 3e édition, Mtl-Laval Ed. François-Xavier (1973) pp. 112-113
At the dawn of its 23 years, he returned to Nouvelle France and settled at Trois-Rivières as a surgeon. He practices in the region of Trois-Rivières for nearly 40 years (1656-1695).
Louis married in 1658 at Trois-Rivières Marie-Madeleine Hertel, daughter of Jacques Hertel and Marie Marguerie. Children of first marriage settle in St-Francois-du-Lac St-Pierre, south side of the St. Lawrence River. The eldest, Claude Pinard keep the family name, the younger Louis chose the nickname Lauzière. By his first marriage, Louis is the brother in law of the Lord that founded in 1673 in St-François-du-Lac St-Pierre, be Jean Crevier, husband of Marguerite Hertel.
After the death of Marie-Madeleine Hertel in 1679, our ancestor married in Champlain in 1680, Marie-Ursule Pepin, daughter of Guillaume and Jeanne Méchin. Many children of this second marriage will settle in Nicolet. Antoine will keep, too, the surname Pinard. The second, Guillaume, will adopt the nickname Beauchemin. Thereafter, Beauchemin adopt the turn of the nicknames Fleurent, Florent and Raîche with some variations in spelling.
François Reiche (Resche), son of Philippe Reiche and Paule Rousse native of Languedoc (Bishop of Carcassonne, in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Fort) in France. He married Marguerite Pinard, marriage was celebrated February 18th 1692 in Notre-Dame de Québec which are resulting five boys and three girls.
Following the death of her husband François Reiche, Marguerite Pinard will reside in Nicolet with his half-brother Guillaume Pinard Beauchemin. This will give the nickname Raiche to his son Jean-Baptiste Pinard-Beauchemin Raiche.
WARNING: BEAUCHEMIN RAICH are not all descendants of Louis Pinard:
Researchers will find other Beauchemin descendant of Paul Hus and Jeanne Baillargeon located in Ste-Anne de Sorel. Paul Hus was a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment came to Canada in 1666 to defend the colony to Fort Richelieu, Sorel now.
There are also other Beauchemin said Petit. They settled in Boucherville and surrounding areas since the beginning of the colony.
Jean-Baptiste Reiche et Marguerite Voyer, a native of the diocese of Fribourg, Canton Brigau in Germany who contracted marriage, October 6th 1789 in L'Ancienne-Lorette Quebec and whose descendants will settle in Québec, Rimouski then, Cascapediac Causapscal and also in New Brunswick.
The Voyages of Louis Pinard
1-st traversal from Larochelle on June 1647 to Québec.
2-nd traversal from Québec on August 23rd 1650 to Larochelle.
3-rd traversal from Larochelle on April 1st 1651 to Québec.
4-th traversal from Québec on September 1st to Larochelle.
5-th traversal from St-Martin-de-Ré on April ___ 1656 to Québec.
6-th traversal from Québec on August 3rd 1665 to Larochelle.
7-th traversal from Larochelle on ____ - ____ 1666 to Québec.
Louis, our ancestor, died in 1695 at Batiscan.
We owe our ancestors at least a brief recognition of the ideals that inspired their lives and gave them the same generosity to suffer and die for the cause to which they had devoted their lives.
That this opportunity is the ideal time to honor our ancestors and many fraternal salute our huge family scattered across America, but united by blood ties and a common origin.