Jacques Goulet was a pioneer settler to Canada who was part of the Percheron immigration movement recruited to colonize the shores of the Saint Laurence River at Quebec in New France, a miller and the ancestor of all of the Goulets in North America.
12 Facts About Jacques Goulet
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Thomas Goulet, the father of Jacques Goulet, lived in France in ancient Perche province's Normandel hamlet in about 1593.
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Jacques Goulet worked as a miller for Noel Juchereau on his farm, Les Chatelets in L'Home-Chamondot, France in 1645.
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Noel Juchereau, a Company of One Hundred Associates investor, recruited Jacques Goulet to migrate to New France as Noel Juchereau's miller via a three-year-termed work contract at the end of which term Jacques Goulet was likely to be granted a land concession.
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Jacques Goulet was in his last year of a three-year contract to Noel Juchereau died in 1648.
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Jacques Goulet was employed by Noel Juchereau, until Juchereau died in 1648, soon after a visit to France.
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In Chateau-Richer, Jacques Goulet owned land consisting of six arpents of frontage.
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Jacques Goulet owned a gun and one of the New France's 78 horses.
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From 1673 to 1676, Jacques Goulet worked as a miller at the mills of the seigneurie de Beaupre, Chateau-Richer's wind mill and the water mill of Sault a la Puce.
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Jacques Goulet was a miller at the water mill at Petit Pre until at least 1682.
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Jacques Goulet once owned a flute that had been passed down from generation to generation.
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In June 2015, descendants of Jacques Goulet's, including the great grandson of Robert Leon Goulet, attempted to locate the flute, but was unsuccessful.