Welcome to my Acadian Blanchard Website!

My name is Jim Blanchard, and with the help of my relatives and a few genealogist friends, I have traced my family all the way back to the early French colonization of Atlantic Canada.

The first French settlement in "l'Acadie" (Acadia) was made in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain and Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts on the island of St. Croix at the mouth of the St. Croix River in present day New Brunswick. The following year the settlement was transferred across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia). In 1631 the French fur trader Charles LaTour established a fort and fur-trading post on the site of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick. During this time, French settlements spread gradually throughout the coastal areas.

My family arrived in Port Royal in 1636. The patriarch was Jean Blanchard, born in 1611. His parents were Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Poirier from France, but I am not sure if they accompanied Jean to Acadia.

• Jason Blanchard's Family Tree (36 KB)
  This tree follows thirteen generations of Blanchards. Starting from the original Acadian settlers in 1636, through the Acadian expulsion in 1759, their return to Acadia and on to the present day.
• Genealogy.com: James Blanchard - InterneTree
  My Instant Family Tree

James Blanchard
62 Fenton Street
Miramichi, New Brunswick E1N 3G3
Canada
(506) 773-4970
blanchaj@hotmail.com

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