Louis SOUMANDE

(b. 14 May 1652 , Québec, Canada, New France d. 19 April 1706 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Louis SOUMANDE was born 14 May 1652 in Québec, Canada, New France

Louis SOUMANDE was the child of Pierre SOUMANDE and Simone COTE and the grandchild of: (maternal) Jean CÔTÉ and Anne MARTIN

Louis SOUMANDE died 19 April 1706 in Québec, Canada, New France .
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Louis SOUMANDE was a priest, canon of the chapter of Quebec, director of the school at Saint-Joachim.

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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1652 Birth
14 May 1652
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Ludouicus Soumandre
born 14 May 1652
baptised 19 May 1652
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
SOUMANDE, LOUIS, priest, canon of the chapter of Quebec, director of the school at Saint-Joachim; b. 14 May 1652 at Quebec, son of Pierre Soumande, master maker of edge tools, and of Simone Côté; brother of Louise Soumande de Saint-Augustin, the first superior of the Hôpital Général of Quebec; d. 19 April 1706 at Quebec.

Louis Soumande studied at the Jesuit college, and in 1663, when the seminary of Quebec was founded, he was one of the first students to be admitted to it. He received the tonsure at the age of 16; Bishop Laval conferred the major orders upon him in December 1677 and the priesthood on the 21st of the same month.

He spent his first years as a priest at the seminary of Quebec. In 1683 he served the missions of Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, Cap Tourmente, Petite-Rivière, and Baie-Saint-Paul. The following year, when the chapter of Quebec was established, he was appointed a canon, and took possession of his canonry on 18 Jan. 1685.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1652 Baptism

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
pierre Soumandre ............................48 Me. taillandier
Simonne Costé................................28 sa femme
Louis Soumandre..............................14 fils
Marie Soumandre .............................11 fille
Jean Soumandre ..............................10 fils
pierre Soumandre..............................7 fils
Anne Soumandre................................8 fille
Jean Soumandre ...............................5 fils
Louise Soumandre..............................2 fille
Mathieu gregoire.............................20 Engaigé domestique
Mathieu Lauvendin............................22 taillandier Engaigé
Et Mathurin Croiser .........................50 aussy Engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)