Men and Women of Renown: The Companion Volume

Michele Doucette holds a Master’s Degree in Literacy Education from Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). A native of Truro, Nova Scotia, she has been living on the west coast of Newfoundland since 1985. Having spent 20 years compiling, validating and sourcing information, as well as collecting pertinent documents, she has meticulously taken the time to piece her genealogy together, generation by generation. Complete with information about life in early Acadie, including the Mothers of Acadia DNA Project, the author also includes information about her own mtDNA results (that go back to U6a7a1 ancestress Edmée Lejeune) and aboriginal ancestry. Additional chapters reference the Filles du Roi, the Carnigan-Salières Regiment and French nobility before delving into an entire chapter dedicated to Catherine de Baillon, followed by her intriguing ancestral lines.