| LAVALLÉES IN THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF BERTHIER, QUÉBEC, CANADA |
CENSUS OF 1871 - A nominal and economic census of the Province of Quebec was taken in 1871 as part of the Census of Canada. The records are kept at the Canadian National Archives. The returns for the electoral district of Berthier (district 103) are available on microfilm C-10038 C-10039 and C-10049 of the National Archives of Canada.
The area is about 10 km going upriver and 10 km downriver from Berthier (village) by about 50km going inland. The population was about 20,000 persons.
I have looked at all 17 sub-districts of the District of Berthier to transcribe all the identified Lavallées.
The census was carried out by the new (1867) Federal Government; hence, given the nearly 100% anglophone majority in the federal government apparatus, there was no concern about registering the full name of the wives, as opposed to what had been done during the previous regimes (New-France to Province of Lower Canada). A loss for everybody, as we do not know for sure yet where the married Lavallee girls were.
I started the transcription on October 14, 2003 and completed January 12, 2004. (For those interested in doing similar work it took me about 7 hours to go through three microfilms. Not bad.)
For St-Cuthbert, no Lavallées are missing but page, line, house, family numbers, reading skill and schooling are missing. I have to fill this in yet.
