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Marriage of Philip Long (Laing) II to Emilie Boucher

1833 Census of the Madawaska Settlement

Key Events and Chronology of the Canadian Postal Service - 1833

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Marriage of Philip (II) Long-Laing to Emilie Boucher

Marriage of Philip (II) Long-Laing to Emilie Boucher on October 22, 1833 at the Immaculate Conception Church in Three Rivers, Quebec.

November 1833—"Returns showing the number of Inhabitants in the Settlement of Madawaska".  According to Chip Gagnon, “Indeed, the census seems to have been undertaken in November 1833; it was signed by J.A. Maclauchlan, Comissioner, at Fredericton on 3 December 1833, and "laid before the House of Assembly by order of His Excellency" on 13 February 1834 under the name "Mr. MacLauchlan's Report on Madawaska," dated 11 December 1833.”

The 1833 New Brunswick Special Census of Madawaska on both sides of the St.John River, Carleton County, New Brunswick (now Madawaska Co., New Brunswick and Aroostook Co., Maine).  There are two Long’s for the village of Clair:   Romain and Georges.  Romain is listed as having a wife, three boys and one girl.  Marie-Julie lives with Romain and is said to “Mother, very poor, requires assistance”.

42 | 378 | Romain Long |  1 (wife) 3 boys  1 girl Mother, very poor, requires assistance

43 | 379 | George Long

Key events of 1833

History - Chronology of the Postal Service in Canada

• The Royal William crosses the Atlantic and becomes the first ocean-going steamship bearing the British Ensign to land at an American port.
  

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