Joseph Antoine Desjarlais

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Joseph Antoine Desjarlais

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Birthplace: Contrecœur, Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada
Death: October 22, 1833 (79)
Swan River, Division No. 20, Manitoba, Canada
Place of Burial: Swan River, Division No. 20, Manitoba, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of Joseph Desjarlais dit St-Amand and Marie-Josephte Hervieux
Husband of Okemaskwew (Boss Woman) and Okimaskwew
Father of Mary Marguerite Allary; Baptiste Desjarlais (aka Nishecabo); Jean-Baptiste "Necho-Kapow" Desjarlais; Josephte Desjarlais; Antoine Desjarlais and 4 others
Brother of Marguerite Desjarlais; Judith Billy-St-Louis; Antoine Desjarlais; Clothilde Desjarlais; Eloi Desjarlais and 3 others
Half brother of Private

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About Joseph Antoine Desjarlais

The first son and namesake of Joseph Desjarlais and is the first known Desjarlais to have gone to Rupert's Land. Surviving records suggest that Joseph Jr. contracted an alliance "a la facon du pays" with an Ojibwa woman called Okimaswew within two years of his receipt of a trading pass to Grand Portage in 1783.

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Joseph Antoine Desjarlais's Timeline

1754
September 3, 1754
Contrecœur, Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada
1787
1787
1790
1790
St. Paul-des-Sauteux, NWT
1792
1792
1795
1795
Saskatchewan, Canada
1797
1797
Lac La Biche Mission, AB, Canada
1800
1800
1804
1804
1833
October 22, 1833
Age 79
Swan River, Division No. 20, Manitoba, Canada