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Following is a story about the origin of the Carignan name as told by Andre Carignan from Quebec City:

The common ancestor is the 3rd son of Pierre Bourbeau, Louis. It was from this Louis that Bourbeau became Carignan. When Louis, son of Pierre Bourbeau, was a young man, he lived with his mother Marie-Anne Besnard-Bourjoly Carignan and father Pierre in Becancour on the south side of the St Laurent River. But he was very interested in a young lady who was living with her widowed mother in the city of Trois-Rivieres. I don't know how often he went to see her because she was far from Becancour (25 - 30 miles). When he visited her, he noticed, nailed to the wall of the living room, a soldier's uniform. So he asked his future mother in law if he married her daughter Marguerite, would she give him permission to wear the dress uniform for his wedding. Madame Boissel told him about the soldier suit, that it was her own father's uniform of theTrois-Riviere's Garrison and after her he died, she decided to nail it there to honor his memory. She allowed Louis to borrow it for the wedding on August 8,1717. He not only wore it for the wedding but for every important occasion such as a baptism or a marriage. Since had many babies and he often wore the suit but no one knew its origins. Around that time, the Carignan Saliere Regiment soldiers were very popular. People began to call Louis the Carignan. "Did you see the Carignan at mass yesterday?" they asked each other. This Regiment of Carignan-Saliere (1200 soldiers) came to New France in 1665 and soldiers were spread over different parishes as well as both shores of the St. Laurence River to help all the farmers who were by this time trying to establish their families and were having trouble with natives attacking them while working alone in the fields. After a while Louis and Marguerite came to Quebec City where he worked as a naval carpenter. Some of Louis' brothers have some other story about changing names but we kind of like this one. One brother Jean Baptiste became Beauchesne, Pierre, Verville and another, Lacourse and even Villeneuve.

Birth	26 Jan 1693	Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada
Marriage	8 Aug 1717	Québec, Québec, Canada - Marguerite Boissel
Marriage	11 May 1732	Château-Richer, Québec, Canada - Marie-Anne Gagnon
Marriage	25 Oct 1745	Québec, Québec, Canada - Charlotte Rainville
Death	28 Oct 1762	Québec, Québec, Canada

Spouse

Marguerite Boissel (1698 - 1730)

Spouse

Marie-Anne Gagnon (1697 - 1735)

Spouse

Charlotte Rainville (1695 - 1750)

Father	Pierre Lacourse Bourbeau (1648 - 1710)
Mother	Anne Bénard (1661 - 1719)
Sibling	Jeanne Bourbeau (1679 - 1751)
Sibling	Louis Bourbeau (1681 - 1681)
Sibling	Louis Lacourse Bourbeau (1681 - 1681)
Sibling	Pierre Lacourse Bourbeau (1683 - 1766)
Sibling	Marguerite-Thérèse Bourbeau (1685 - 1739)
Sibling	Madeleine Bourbeau (1686 - 1722)
Sibling	Geneviève Bourbeau (1688 - 1688)
Sibling	Pierre Verville Bourbeau (1691 - 1762)
Sibling	Marie-Anne Geneviève Bourbeau (1696 - 1789)
Sibling	Marie-Josephe Lacourse Bourbeau (1698 - 1773)
Sibling	Joseph Beauchesne Bourbeau (1699 - 1760)
Sibling	Charlotte Bourbeau (1707 - 1777)