Pioneers of the Châteauguay

Châteauguay Valley Pioneers

“....a community distinct from every other in the province of Quebec. With the Eastern Townships, with which they are often erroneously classed, the English-speaking settlements of the district of Beauharnois have no affinity. The first settlers of the Eastern Townships were Americans, and between the customs, speech, and habits of their descendants and those of the people who live to the south of them there is no material difference, but they who dwell by the Chateaugay and its tributaries are of Old Country stock, and in character, ways of life, and speech present nearly as striking a contrast to the Americans, who are divided from them by an imaginary boundary-line, as they do to the French Canadians who are found scattered among them and who hem them in to the north and east.”

Robert Sellar, in “The History of the County of Huntingdon
and of the Seigniories of Châteauguay & Beauharnois” 1888.

Here are links to some of the pioneer families of the Châteauguay Valley. We have limited these pages to Canadian immigrants and their descendants, and to the 1800s. Most of the contributors have identified many generations of old country English, Irish and Scots ancestors, as well as descendants to the present day. They will be happy to hear from distant cousins.

You are invited to contact the contributor if you have or suspect a connection to these families. If you would like to see your own Châteauguay Valley early settlers included here, please contact our WebMonger

William Akester & Elizabeth Alger
Nathaniel Adams & Dorothy Andrus
James Anderson & Margery Barclay
John Angel & Jane Lee
Irwin Armstrong & Sarah Mullens
Abraham Atkinson & Caroline Ann Struthers
Edward Aubrey & Mayless or (May Bess?)
James Barr & Janet Lindsay
William Barrington & Esther Britton
Gideon Brayton & Rebecca Nichols
John Carson & Mary Wright
Thomas Caverhill & Jessie Fletcher
Merrill Cooper & Orrin Babcock
William Wesley Cox & Fanny Sparrow
John Cummin & Betty McCoaig
Phillip Derick & Mary Brust
Edmund Dineen & Margaret McCarthy
John Douglass & Mary Snodgrass
Charles Furey & Margaret Douglass
John Greer & Mary McClelland
James Hamilton & Margaret Ferguson
William Hampson & Jane McCartney
Thomas Henderson & Margaret Henderson
William Henderson & Mary Mullins
Samuel Hingston & Eleanor McGrath
William Henry Hooker & Ann Whittal
Robert Howe & Isabel McLean
Thomas James Hutchison & Jane Barrington Whittal
John Jack & Elizabeth Lang
William Kissock & Jessie Caverhill
John Lamb & Jane Akester
John Lang & Margaret McKell / Janet Peddie
Andrew Lauder & Isobel Allan
James Learmont & Elizabeth Black
Peter Lindsay & Margaret Stevenson
Robert Lindsay & Agness Dickie
John Angus MacDiarmid & Catherine Cameron
Alexander MacFarlane & Janet Gorrie
Archibald Ma(i)ther & Ann Huntley
John McDowell & Charlotte Farr
Daniel McGregor & Christian Bullions
Matthew McKell & Jean Niven
Allan McMillan & Jane Muir
Duncan McMillan & Margaret Cumming
James McNown & Jane Martin
James McWhinney & Mary Scott
Angus Menish & Janet McCaig
John Metcalfe & Ann Thompson
Moses Millar (1764-1855)
Moses Millar & Margaret Caldwell
William Miller & Janet Crawford
Alexander Mills & Christian Fisher
Arthur Moore & Mary Whalley
James Muir & Jacobina Nicholson
William Muir & Catherine Bertrand
John Orr & Mary Erskine
John Parkinson & Elizabeth Chapman
John Pringle & Jannet Herriot
Peter Reid & Mary Flanaghan
John Rutherford & Helen Smith
Edward Sadler (1754) & his six sons
Edward Sadler (1822) & Elizabeth Tate
John Sadler & Ann Mason
John Sadler & Mary Reid
James Sangster & Christian Smith
John Sangster & Betsy Mather
Francis Smith & Ann Kelly
James Sparrow & Martha Douglass
Jonathan Sparrow & Mary McNarland
Charles Stewart & Frances McGregor
John Stewart & Margaret Rodgie
James Struthers & Margaret Hogg
John Swales & Isabel Preston
John Tate & Jane Stabler
Samuel Thompson & Catherine Baskin
Robert Thomas Walsh & Elizabeth McNown
James Whittal & Ann Ramplin
John Whittal & Eliza Turley
Robert Whiteford & Margaret Lennox
Alexander Younie & Isabel Laing

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