Moyse Loiselle, native of Saint Marc-sur-Richelieu,

My great grandfather (Prepared by: Aurora Loiselle, Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada)

His relatives and descendants

Moyse’s siblings – photos sent to him while in Fort Vancouver or later in Chile (1800’s) by his half sister, Mathilde Loiselle Moyse, was born on March of 1819 in Saint Marc-sur-Richelieu, son of Prudent Loiselle and Julie Tetrault-Ducharme He was part of the Western missions of the Sisters of the Providence. One team member was sister Ester Pariseau, who is now known as Sister Joseph in the West USA

Abraham Loiselle and spouse Adele Charron, married in St. Charles October 1849

• Abraham is Moyse’s brother

• Parents: Prudent Loiselle and

• Julie Tetrault-Ducharme

• Abraham was recorded as a “voiture manufacturer”, moved to Waterloo, Quebec and then to

• New Hampshire

• I found some of his children as:

• Joseph Alexandre, born in St. Marc, April 1850

• Joseph Abraham, born in St. Marc, February 7, 1852 and

• Marie Mathilde, born in 1859

• (this list may not be complete)

Odile Loiselle and Marc Chicoine, married in St Marc, in 1851

• Odile and Marc both of Saint Marc-sur-Richelieu

• Odile is, Moyse’s sister

• Photo dated 1889 in Sioux City, Iowa

• While Marc was a “coordonnier” he turned into farming once he moved out to Iowa and then to Jefferson, S.D.

• They had 11 children: Elise, Stanislas, Hermidas Joseph, Delphine, Rosanna, Alphonse, Hermenegilde, Amanda, Alfred, Philias

Odile Loiselle and Marc Chicoine

• Chicoines, younger

• Marc’s and Odile’s grave in St. Paul’s church in Jefferson, S. D. Material kindly sent by their descendant, Mary Bertrand

Mathilde Loiselle and Joseph Trudel

• Mathilde, Moyse’s half-sister and his godchild

• Mathilde sent Moyse and his descendants a few letters to Chile through the clerics. These letters were kept by the family and they constitute a key instrument of our family research and a window to the whole family.

• A couple of her letters were dated 1889 in Montreal.

• Mathilde became a widow and married three times

Marguerite Loiselle and spouse Isidore Jodoin, moved to St. Hyacinthe and then on to Manchester, New Hampshire. Marguerite is Moyse’s sister

These are relatives from New Hampshire, likely the Jodoins (Marguerite Loiselle and Isidore’s family) or Abraham Loiselle and Adele Charron’s family

Moyse’s other siblings, of which, I do not have pictures:

• Julie Edith, born 16 February of 1817

• Prudent Moyse, born March 9, 1819

• Libere, born March 6 of 1821

• Marguerite, born September 9, 1822

• Joseph Mathias, born February 13, 1823

• Abraham Pierre, born January 31, 1826

• Julienne, born March 17, 1830

• Their mother, Julie and her eighth child died

• at birth in 1831 or 1832

• His father remarried in 1833, to Veronique Poulet and had about four more children:

• Mathilde, who married (1) Joseph Bourdon in 1852, married (2) Joseph Martel and a third

• time after becoming a widow again.

• Marie, who married Edouard Ferland in 1860

• Philippe, who married Philomene Leduc in 1857 (niece of the parish priest)

• There seems to be other children, but I do not have their names

Extract of L’Institut de la Providence in Chile Volume III, page 43 of Supplement

• Translation:

• Moise Loisel, baker in service to Monseigneur M. Blanchet, arrived with our missionaries in Vancouver, Washington en 1856.

• In 1858 he met in California, Jean Campagna, who was arriving from Santiago. After a dispute between the expats, Jean took the resolution –he never executed – to return to Canada and Moise Loisel decided to go to Chile. On the 28 of January 1859, he wrote ……..” I arrived on the 18th at 3 in the morning after a happy journey of 55 days in a German ship called Emilia. The Sisters were surprised to see me; I could hardly respond to the thousand questions….

• While our houses in Chile remained united with ours in Montreal, Moise Loisel lived as an employee with our Sisters in Valparaiso. We ignore what he became afterwards. Mother Bernard told us he died in Chile towards 1880. He had married a Chilean and had several children.

The Providence Mother House in Santiago, Chile on Providencia Avenue

• The Providence Sisters moved to Santiago, Chile after their establishment in Valparaiso in 1853

• Adjacent streets are named Canada, Quebec, Terranova, Bernard Morin

• Bernard Morin, the Superior spend 73 years of her life in Chile and knew Moise’s family, my aunts

• In honor of this religious woman, who became known and popular in all sectors of Chilean society, they erected a monument of her with children. She received the highest medal of honor to a foreigner from a President of Chile in 1927

• This building was burnt down more than a year ago (maybe 2011 or 2012)

One of Moise’s children, Eduardo, my grandfather and his family in Chile. Spouse, Aurora and five of their seven children: Elcira, Eduardo Jr., baby Moises, Rachel and Aurora Jr. (Chile)

• Missing in the picture are:

• Pedro, who had died and Humberto (my father) who was born a year later in 1904

Humberto Loiselle, my father. Was a volunteer firefighter in the French expat community Fire Company (Pompe France) in Santiago, a Rugby player and was a Manager in an American airline company

• He never talked about Canada, never showed interest in visiting Canada

He spoke English and French, besides Spanish

His fire company of volunteers, as it was teamed by Chileans with french ascendancy, were invited every year to the July 14 celebration at the French Embassy in Santiago, Chile

• Me and father

• at the French Embassy in Santiago

At the airport in Santiago

My aunts: Rachel, Aurora and Elcira Loiselle, around 1925 They are Moise’s grandchildren in Chile

801 rue Richelieu, Saint Marc-sur-Richelieu; the house where Julie Tetrault-Ducharme, Moyse’s mother, was born. It is her parents’ home (Augustin Tetreault-Ducharme and Cecile Tetrault, first cousins)

• Note: Prudent Loiselle and Julie Tetrault-Ducharme, Moyse’s parents, were also first cousins

• The house still stands today and is inhabited by the Couillard family of St.Marc

• It overlooks the Richelieu River and it is a sample of New France architecture (lower level) and the Victorian period renovation(porch and mansarde)