We honor the individuals who have demonstrated generosity and dedication to the development of the Jehan and Perrine Terriot Archive and this website, by listing their names on a special CONTRIBUTORS plaque. These individuals demonstrated and continue to demonstrate today the true spirit of Acadian cooperation by 'putting their shoulder' to the task of documenting the genealogy and history of the great Theriault family.

Credits

WELCOME! (Home Page):

Animated Acadian flag...  Pascal Gross  URL: http://www.atlasgeo.net/flags/_index.htm

Background midi music: "Partons, La Mer Est Belle", from 'THE GREAT CANADIAN TUNEBOOK', Sequenced by Barry Taylor, Victoria, BC, Canada  Contact Barry at URL: http://members.home.net/bntaylor/canmidi.htm

'Leopard' Theriault crest, from Halberts, Bath, OH; computer graphics by J.R.Theriault

'Cross' Theriault crest, origin unknown; crest researched and created by artist Russell Bonin for the University of Ste-Anne's Hector Center.

'The ANCIENT PORT OF LA ROCHELLE', photograph by J.R.Theriault

Compilation of Theriault family name variations by Reuben J. Ciriaks

Translation to the french language by Dr. Michel Thériault

INTRODUCTION

Map of Medieval France, from 'COLLECTIONS NOS RACINES'; computer graphics by J.R.Theriault

Map of Acadia; computer graphics by J.R.Theriault

THE SAIL FROM LE HAVRE TO LA HEVE

Background midi music: Acadian National Hymn "Ave Maris Stella" from 'THE GREAT CANADIAN TUNEBOOK', Sequenced by Barry Taylor, Victoria, BC, Canada Contact Barry at URL: http://members.home.net/bntaylor/canmidi.htm

Illustration of color print 'Down the Long Street She Passed' from the book "THE STORY OF EVANGELINE" by Clayton Edwards adapted from Longfellow's original poem, illustrated by M.L. Kirk, published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York 1913.

Illustration of Painting  'JOAN OF ARC' by a student of Dominique Ingres by permission from the website of Saint Joan of Arc Center, Albuquerque, NM.

Illustration of monochrome print "EGLISE DE LA CHAUSSÉE (Vienne)" Editions des Trois Moutiers, Roiffé, France 86120 Les Trois Moutiers. Provided through the generosity of Alice Thériot Meaux, 8th great-granddaughter of Jehan Terriault.

Illustration of "ACADIANS BUILDING A DYKE AT GRAND-PRE" by Lewis Picard, Commissioned by Canadian heritage (Parks Canada), Atlantic Region

Illustration of "an aboiteau" "THE DYKES", courtesy of  Centre-Acadien, Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia.

"Arsenault Account: the Sail from Le Havre to La Heve" a translation by J.R. Theriault of exerpts from: ‘HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, HISTOIRE DES ACADIENS’, TOMES I ET II', Bona Arsenault, Television de la Baie des Chaleurs Inc.

"Lanctot Account: the Sail from Le Havre to La Heve" a translation by J.R. Theriault of exerpts from: ‘FAMILLIES ACADIENNES’, TOME II', Léopold Lanctôt, o.m.i, Éditions du Libre-Échange.

TOUR OF OUR ANCESTRAL LAND

Background midi music: "C'est L'Aviron" from 'THE GREAT CANADIAN TUNEBOOK', Sequenced by Barry Taylor, Victoria, BC, Canada Contact Barry at URL: http://members.home.net/bntaylor/canmidi.htm

Photographs of Chambord, Chenonceaux, The Hunting Dogs of Cheverny, Martaize and La Rochelle: ©J. R. Theriault, 1998-1999.

'The Tributaries of the Loire': courtesy of: 'THE REAL GUIDE: FRANCE', by Kate Baillie and Tim Salmon, Prentice-Hall, 1992; computer graphics by J.R.Theriault

'Tour the Middle Loire' Map: courtesy of: 'ACADIE NAISSANCE D'UN PEUPLE', Office du Tourisme de Loudun; computer graphics by J.R.Theriault

Migration from Acadia

• Population Distribution and Migration maps courtesy of Naomi E.S. Griffiths, "The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1785", Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University

Family Great-Branches

The Family's Unsolved Mysteries

Family Photos of the Month (All photos credited as identified in 'Family Photos of the Month' page)

Family Anecdotes and Stories

La Bonne Chanson, Acadian/French-Canadian Music

• All songs credited as identified on the 'Bibliography and Credits' web page.

La Jaseuse, the Family Gazette

• Background midi music: "L'Homme à Deux Femmes" from THE GREAT CANADIAN TUNEBOOK, Sequenced by Barry Taylor, Victoria, BC, Canada

Contact Barry at URL: http://members.home.net/bntaylor/canmidi.htm
• Photos, as contributed by the members of the Joseph T. Theriault family

Letters, Notes and E-Mail

Jehan Terriault Archive

• Individual Research Contributions are listed in the Source (Bibliography) section of the Archive.
• Theriault Family Crest, courtesy of Gilles G. Theriault
• Software by: Legacy 3.0 from Millennia.

The Acadian Story in Time-Line

• Detailed chronology by William Faulkner Rushton, "THE CAJUNS: FROM ACADIA TO LOUISIANA", Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York. 1980.

Bibliography and Credits

• Background midi music: "Log Drivers' Waltz"© Courtesy of Wade Hemsworth from THE GREAT CANADIAN TUNEBOOK, Sequenced by Barry Taylor, Victoria, BC, Canada

1.        Bona Arsenault; "HISTOIRE ET GÉNÉALOGIE DES ACADIENS", Volumes 1 through 6; Television de la Baie des Chaleurs, Inc., Canada. 1988.

2.      Bona Arsenault; "HISTORY OF THE ACADIANS", Editions Fides, Quebec, Canada. 1994. ISBN 2-7621-1745-3.

3.      C. Stewart Doty/Photographs by John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano, Jack Walas; "ACADIAN HARD TIMES: The Farm Security Administration in Maine's St John Valley, 1940-1943",  University of Maine Press, Orono, ME, USA. 1991. ISBN 0-89101-070-X

4.      "1671 CENSUS OF ACADIA"

5.      David R. Raymond, "A HISTORY OF SAINTE-LUCE PARISH, UPPER FRENCHVILLE - FRENCHVILLE, MAINE, 1843-1993".

6.      Gladys Trenholm, Miep Norden, Josephine Trenholm; "A HISTORY OF FORT LAWRENCE: Times, Tides and Towns". Sherwood Printing Ltd, Alberta, Canada. 1985. ISBN 0-921080-00-X.

7.      J. Alphonse Deveau; "TWO BEGINNINGS: A Brief Acadian History"; Lescarbot Publications, Canada. 1992.  ISBN 0-921443-16-1

8.      Joan Dawson, "ISAAC DE RAZILLY, 1587 - 1635, Founder of LaHave", Lunenberg County Historical Society, LaHave, NS, Canada. 1982. ISBN 0-9691142-0-6.

9.      Leopold Lanctot, o.m.i; "FAMILLES ACADIENNE, Tome I, II"; Editions du Libre-Echange, P.Q., Canada. 1994. ISBN 2-89412-004-4.

10.     Linda Dube; "THERIAULT GENEALOGY, Volumes 1 and 2"; Linda Dube & The Theriault Executive Committee, Madawaska, ME, USA. 1993.

11.     Environment Canada - Parks, "THE DEPORTATION OF THE ACADIANS", Minister of Environment, Canada. 1986.

12.     Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod; "LIFE IN ACADIA"; Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Canada. 1994. ISBN 0-88902-180-5.

13.     Thomas Albert;  "HISTOIRE DU MADAWASKA: Entre l'Acadie, le Quebec et l'Amerique"; La Societe Historique du Madawaska, Hortubise, HMH, P.Q., Canada. 1982. ISBN 2-89045-526-2

14.     William Faulkner Rushton, "THE CAJUNS: From Acadia to Louisiana", Farrar Straus Giroux, New York. 1980.

15.     Denis Beauregard (S.G.C.F. 5753), "DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE DE NOS ORIGINES"  (http://www.cam.org/%7Ebeaur/gen/dgo.html)

16.     Reverend Louis J. Cyr, "THEODULE A. THERIAULT/ELSIE DUBÉ GENEALOGY", 50 Rue de L'Eglise, Edmundston, NB, Canada 1969

17.     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "EVANGELINE, A Tale of Acadie", Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, NS, 1951

18. Naomi E.S. Griffiths, "THE CONTEXTS OF ACADIAN HISTORY, 1686- 1784", Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University forMcGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, London, Buffalo.

19. Dudley J. LeBlanc; "THE ACADIAN MIRACLE", Evangeline Publishing Company, Lafayette, Louisiana. 1966. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-28646

20. Fidèle Thériault, "LES FAMILLES DE CARAQUET, Dictionnaire Généalogique", Privately published by Fidèle Thériault. 1985. ISBN: O-9692151-0-X.

21. Carl A. Brasseaux, "THE FOUNDING OF NEW ACADIA, The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803", Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. 1987. ISBN: 0-8071-2099-5.

22. Carl A. Brasseaux, "ACADIAN TO CAJUN, Transformation of a People, 1803-1877", University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi.1999. ISBN: 0-87805-582-5

23. Clive Doucet, "NOTES FROM EXILE, On Being Acadian", McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, Ontario. 1999. ISBN: 0-7710-2839-3

24. Felix Voorhies, "ACADIAN REMINISCENCES", Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana. 1998. ISBN: 1-56554-442-0

25. Stephen A. White, "DICTIONNAIRE GÉNÉALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES", Volumes I, II; Centre D'Études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. 1999. ISBN 0-919691-91-9

26. p. 194, Dudley J. LeBlanc; "THE ACADIAN MIRACLE", Evangeline Publishing Company, Lafayette, Louisiana. 1966. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-28646

27. p. 56. Bona Arsenault; "HISTOIRE ET GÉNÉALOGIE DES ACADIENS", Volumes 1 through 6; Television de la Baie des Chaleurs, Inc., Canada. 1988.

28. "HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CANADA", Volume 1, plate 29, 'Acadian Marshland Settlement' by Jean Daigle. (Showing the population distribution around Port Royal in 1707; partly based on Franquelin's and Delabat's maps of Port Royal).

29.  p. 247, Leopold Lanctot, o.m.i; "FAMILLES ACADIENNE, Tome I, II"; Editions du Libre-Echange, P.Q., Canada. 1994. ISBN 2-89412-004-4. Volume II.

30. ibid,  p. 288

31. p. 807. Bona Arsenault; "HISTOIRE ET GÉNÉALOGIE DES ACADIENS", Volumes 1 through 6; Television de la Baie des Chaleurs, Inc., Canada. 1988.

32. p. 153, 248, Leopold Lanctot, o.m.i; "FAMILLES ACADIENNE, Tome I, II"; Editions du Libre-Echange, P.Q., Canada. 1994. ISBN 2-89412-004-4. Volume II.

33. ibid, p. 287.

34. John Frederic Herbin, THE HISTORY OF GRAND-PRE', THE HOME OF LONGFELLOW'S "EVANGELINE"; 1504-1836; St. John, New Brunswick, Barnes, 1907, reprinted by Heritage Books, 1991.

35. Edouard Richard, "ACADIA Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History", Home Book Company, New York. John Lovell & Son, Montreal.1895. 

36. Diereville, M. "Une Relation du Voyage de l'Acadie", Rouen 1708. 

37. DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY; 1701-1740; vol. 2, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1969; 

38. Deveau, Alphonse et Sally Ross. Les Acadiens de la Nouvelle-Écosse; hier et aujourd'hui, Édition d'Acadie, Moncton, N.B., 1995.