Using Family Stories to Expand Genealogical Research ‘Ann Elizabeth Rutherford – Galloway was a very spry and wiry lady who could handle almost any situation requiring work.. When she wanted to do some special shopping, she would arise before daylight, do the necessary farm chores which women did then, get ready, take a little lunch in her shopping bag and strike out on her own two feet for Belleville. She would get the odd wagon ride on the way and would finally reach her de

Les Filles du Roi were approximately 800 unmarried women sponsored by King Louis XIV of France to immigrate to New France 1663-1673 with the aim of solving the gender imbalance in the Colony. These women, ages 16-40, were married to labourers and soldiers from the Carignan-Saliéres regiment. They were to settle the colony with the goal of maintaining French Dominion and the French Language. Supplied with dowries from the King, the filles du roi travelled to the New World with