A BIT OF HISTORY


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Origin of the name Gosselin

Gabriel Gosselin (1621-1697)    From servant to bourgeois

Me Louis-Aldéï Gosselin, C.R., survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland

L.A. GOSSELIN was on board, and he survived the sinking

Extract from the civil status registers of the commune of Combray, Calvados

Our Patriots 1837-1838

Bishops, prelates, canons, priests and deacons

Our politicians and our lawyers

Soldier in spite of himself : Clément Gosselin (1747-1816)

Clément Gosselin: Canadian Patriot and American Revolutionary

Coat of arms

Auguste-Honoré GOSSELIN (1843-1918)

Thérèse-Hedwidge GOSSELIN and Amanda GOSSELIN (Sisters of Auguste-Honoré GOSSELIN)

430 women descendants of Gabriel GOSSELIN will become nuns!

GOSSELIN families, pioneers of St-Charles-de-Bellechasse

Amédée GOSSELIN (1863-1941)

Jean-Edmé-Auguste GOSSELIN

Joseph Gosselin and sons at Lévis (1847-1924) (word 800 Ko)

Nuns of GOSSELIN descent in Soeurs de La Charité de Quebec

The abbot Dominique Gosselin

Michel Gosselin, marine biologist (Rimouski, Quebec)

The nun Louise Gosselin, A.M.J.

The nun Geneviève Gosselin 1667-1739

The annals of the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec - Geneviève Gosselin

Our ancestor Gabriel Gosselin

The land of our ancestors revisited

The Basilica-Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Québec

The Gosselins in America (article written by Louis-Guy Lemieux), LE SOLEIL, June 30, 2007)

The ancestor Gabriel Gosselin (article by J.-F.Gosselin published in Le Gabriel Volume 2 number 3 summer 1991 (4 pages)

Some notes on Gabriel Gosselin, our ancestor in America (University of Moncton)

The history of Maison Gosselin located at 33 Place Royale, Quebec

The Gosselin Sawmill

Surname Gosselin, Quebec Toponymy Commission

Antonia Gosselin (1882-1957) Between Clothing and Motherhood, article of Marc-Guy Létourneau

Hyacinthe Gosselin (1672 ? - ? ) 10th alleged child of Gabriel Gosselin and Françoise Lelièvre

The Gosselin foundry

Gosselin River Stamp, Arthabaska
Canada Post Corporation, 1989

Portrait of Henry V. Gosselin
Illustrious Land Bulletin, December 2002, volume 11, number 2
Article by Guy Lambert (with permission from the Lambert Family Association)

Jean Gosselin's first marriage (1666-1756) - Some information

Gosselin left his mark on Lévis

Adrienne Gosselin (Nun of Saint-Tharcicius)
Congregation of the Missionary nuns of Notre-Dame des anges

Major Joseph M. Gosselin, Air Forces, USA
    Life after Pearl Harbor (document pdf, 10.9 Mo)
    Website to visit :
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Clément Gosselin , a Canadian soldier who took part in the Normandy landings during the Second World War.
Source : Sélection Reader's digest, June 2014

Plaque of Geneviève Gosselin and Prisque Bélanger, pioneers of Saint-Vallier de Bellechasse, south shore of Quebec