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1 http://www.archiv.umontreal.ca/Galeries/P0058/P00581FP/CadreP0058FP.htm Suzanne Allison
 
2 http://www.archiv.umontreal.ca/Galeries/P0058/P00581FP/CadreP0058FP.htm Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
 
3 BABIE (in later generations spelled “Bâby,” and in Michigan historical collections “Baubee” or "Baubie"), JACQUES, soldier, farmer, and fur-trader, founder of the distinguished Canadian family of this name, son of Jehan Babie, Seigneur de Ranville and Isabeau Robin of the parish of Monteton, diocese of Agen; b. France c. 1633 (1639 according to the census of 1681); d. 28 July 1688 at Champlain.

Jacques Babie came to Canada in 1665 as a sergeant in the Carignan-Salières regiment, sent by Louis XIV and Colbert to fight the Iroquois. After peace had been signed at the end of 1666 between the Iroquois and Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, commander-in-chief of Louis XIV’s forces in North America, Babie obtained his discharge from the army and settled in Champlain on the St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières, in a fertile region known as the “cradle of explorers and fur-traders.”

He was attracted to fur-trading and farming and engaged in both. As early as 1668, and for many years thereafter, he traded with the Indians of the upper Saint-Maurice and upper Ottawa rivers, and was among the government-accredited merchants who participated in the great fur mart held annually at Montreal. In 1669, he bought two tracts of land in Champlain and farmed them. By the year 1681 he had acquired two more tracts of land in the same locality as well as another at Gentilly across the St. Lawrence. In 1670, he married Jeanne Dandonneau, daughter of Pierre Dandonneau*, dit Lajeunesse, Sieur Du Sablé, one of the substantial citizens of Trois-Rivières, who had settled in Champlain about 1660. Jacques Babie died in 1688, at the age of about 55, in Champlain, leaving a comfortable fortune. Very avid for profits, and a hard-headed businessman, he had numerous differences which frequently brought him before the Conseil Souverain.

The youngest of his 11 children, Raymond Babie, who followed in his father’s footsteps as a fur-trader, was the father of Jacques Baby*, dit Dupéron, and François Baby*. Both distinguished themselves in the early years of British rule.

Marine Leland
Edited by Edward B. Baubie

Used with Permission from Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

AJTR, Greffe de Guillaume de La Rue, 1 juin 1670. APQ, Documents divers, I, Lettres de Jacques Babie et de son èpouse, Jeanne Dandonneau, à Antoine Adhémar. Additional ms material in Detroit Public Library, Burton Hist. Coll.; Ontario Hist. Soc.; Public Archives of Ontario; University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library; Université de Montréal, Coll. Bâby. Recensement de 1681. Jug. et délib., II, III, V, VI, passim. P.-B. Casgrain, “Jacques Babie,” BRH, X (1904), 329–32; Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Bâby et Perrault (Québec, 1898).
 		Jacques Babie
 
4 1. Genealogy of the Wright Family
2. Old Family Tree
3. Church Record of Our Lady of Mercy Church, Lambton Co. 		Charles Duperon Bâby
 
5 Louis lived in Buffalo, renting a room in a lovely home he pointed to us. I guess he went on to New York where he married Louise (1927) and James married Margaret Quain (sisters). They loved to sing and play the piano and aspired to go on stage. After Chuck was born (in Ottawa, one month before the crash) they moved to Naugatuck, Conn where Louis worked for a tire company, I think. Louise hated it there - too boring a small town. I know they lived in Oshawa for a few years when Chuck was 6 or 7? At one time, apparently he drove a truck (he did not have the physique of a trucker). At one point, he worked for Ottawa Car with his lawyer brother-in-law and the other a a civil engineer. Mr Ahearn was Louise's uncle, her mother's brother who was very well off but eventually, Ottawa Car (streetcars) closed due to the automobile. He finally landed a job with the Federal Govt and had to work in Toronto for several years before being transferred to Ottawa where Chuck & Louise stayed. He had bought a property on the Quebec side in the mid '40s and had a log cabin built for hunting purposes. He only hunted partridges and did not hunt deer. Chuck met other men with whom he hunted in the Fall for 15 yrs or more. When we moved to Port Cartier, he got a moose 2 yrs in a row with a local hunter. We had the horns here in the family room. Louis worked in the accounting dept and I don't think he was crazy about the Government but it was secure. He was a very gentle, quiet man. But then I met him when he had had a heart attack. I think he was depressive. Louise was lively and I think he was happy to let her do the talking. He would never contradict her. James, on the other hand, divorced Margaret in 1932 and returned to New York. I believe he was a commercial artist. He had to return to Ottawa in order to be treated under the Veterans' Plan. I believe he had lung cancer.
-Claire Bâby, March 3rd, 2008 		Charles Louis Bâby
 
6 Drowned in Lake Erie Francis Bâby
 
7 BÂBY, FRANÇOIS, militia officer, politician, justice of the peace, businessman, and office holder; b. 16 Dec. 1768 in Detroit, son of Jacques Bâby*, dit Dupéron, and Susanne Réaume (Rhéaume), dit La Croix; m. 5 Sept. 1795 Frances Abbott, and they had eight sons and four daughters; d. 27 Aug. 1852 in Windsor, Upper Canada.

François Bâby belonged to the most powerful family in the Western District of Upper Canada, and his uncle François*, who supervised his education and that of his elder brother James*, was an influential member of the governing class in Lower Canada. Tall, ramrod straight, active in mind and body throughout his long life, and fluently bilingual, François possessed both personal qualities and family connections which made him a natural choice for political and civil office. His political career began in 1792 when James advised him to stand in Essex County for election to Upper Canada’s first parliament. Since a Bâby candidacy in Essex with its large French-speaking population would threaten the election chances there of Surveyor General David William Smith*, François was apparently persuaded to run in neighbouring Kent County instead. Duly elected to the House of Assembly for Kent with William Macomb, Bâby may have been responsible for the order in 1793 to translate acts of the legislature into French “for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Western District.” In July of that year he was one of 15 assemblymen who signed a private petition protesting “the great inconvenience” of the contract which awarded a monopoly on army provisioning to major merchants such as Robert Hamilton*. Their petition gave stature to the province-wide opposition to the contract. In 1794 James, who had become lieutenant of Kent County, appointed his brother lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Kent Militia. Two years later François received his first commission as justice of the peace for the Western District and served almost continuously in that capacity for more than 40 years.

The position of the Bâby family, Roman Catholic and French Canadian, was unique in Upper Canada. At the centre of power locally, the family enjoyed good relations with successive administrations at York (Toronto), the provincial capital. Yet within the French-speaking settlement of the Western District, it was often regarded with suspicion. In 1795, after François had become Alexander McKee*’s deputy lieutenant for Essex County, the vicar general of Upper Canada, Edmund Burke*, granted him the pew in the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption reserved since the French régime for the highest ranking government official. When Bâby took possession of the pew one Sunday shortly after his marriage to a non-French convert, the congregation objected and had the “distinctive pew” removed. Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe* ordered that the respect “observed formerly towards the French Commandant” be maintained, but the controversy continued. Bâby finally withdrew his claim in 1797 in order to avoid further confrontations.

Bâby averred that his family’s attachment to the British crown was the real reason for the opposition. Such “patriotic feeling and an anxiety to contribute his personal exertions toward the defence of the Province” would motivate Bâby to join the British forces at Amherstburg when war broke out in 1812. As an assistant quartermaster general he saw action at the battles of Detroit, Frenchtown (Monroe, Mich.), and Fort Meigs (near Perrysburg, Ohio). In the fall of 1813 he accompanied Major-General Henry Procter*’s retreat from the Western District after the defeat at Moraviantown and later was to testify at his court martial. Bâby saw action again on the Niagara frontier in December 1813 and was commended by Lieutenant-General Gordon Drummond for being “useful and indefatigable” in embarking troops at Black Rock (Buffalo, N.Y.). On 31 Jan. 1814 he was captured by an American raiding party led by Andrew Westbrook* on the Thames River, “shamefully and inhumanely tied with cords,” and removed to the United States. His fate was a matter of some concern since American citizens (as Detroit-born Bâby was considered to be) taken in arms against the United States were to be referred directly to President James Madison. A remonstrance to the United States government, however, resulted in his return.

In 1812 Bâby’s property at Sandwich (Windsor) and his newly built house had been occupied by Brigadier-General William Hull’s invading army. Bâby sought damages from the enemy of £2,450, a measure of his financial well-being, but without effect. It was not until 1824 that he received compensation of £444 from the British government. More galling to his pride was the government’s decision to give him a grant of land based on the rank of captain he had held as an assistant quartermaster general, rather than on his pre-war rank as colonel of militia, conferred on him in 1807 when he acted for three months as lieutenant of Essex County in place of Alexander Grant*. Bâby received 800 acres and petitioned the government repeatedly over the years – to no avail – for the additional 400 acres.

With his election to the House of Assembly in 1820 as one of the two members for Essex, Bâby resumed his political career. Advocating positions perhaps unexpected for the brother of a well-known member of the “family compact,” who had himself repeatedly received appointments to government office, François became increasingly reform-minded. He voted against the expulsion of reformer Barnabas Bidwell* from the assembly in 1822 and the following year affirmed Marshall Spring Bidwell*’s eligibility to run for election in his father’s stead. He strongly opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada, a move which he thought “would prove fatal to both Provinces & perhaps to the Mother Country.” His own political efforts seem to have been punctuated by failure. Attempts in 1824 to secure the offices of surrogate court judge and registrar of Essex County were unsuccessful, and in the general election of that year he tied for second place with the result that the attending magistrate, William Hands, returned only one member for Essex. Bâby protested, a new writ of election was issued, and Bâby was returned to the assembly the following year. He was elected once again in 1828, but the re-emergence of discord in the parish, this time over church finances and the failure to provide suitable housing for the girls’ school, begun by Sister Marie-Clotilde Raizenne* and supported by the Bâbys, contributed to François’s political undoing in 1830. When in late October Bâby was defeated at the polls, he blamed the local priest, Joseph Crevier, dit Bellerive, and the pastor at Amherstburg, Louis-Joseph Fluet, and tried to have both removed. Bâby’s defeat was a source of outrage for the vicar general, William John O’Grady*, and for Bishop Alexander McDonell*, who described Bâby as “the most independent, and most upright, and . . . the most honest member” who ever sat in the assembly.

Crevier, however, had strong support from his congregation, which resented Bâby’s boast that he had more influence with the bishop than “all the parishioners put together” and which feared that he would use that influence to have Crevier replaced by an “English priest.” These fears were realized in November 1831 when the bishop’s nephew Angus MacDonell was appointed to the predominantly French-Canadian parish. But Bâby’s troubles were far from over. His refusal to turn over the deeds to the church which O’Grady had entrusted to him in 1830 caused the bishop to listen more sympathetically to local complaints. The result was a bill passed in the assembly in February 1834 which allowed removal of the deeds from trustees such as Bâby, “whose views and intentions were hostile to the interest of the Catholics of Sandwich, and their Religion.” Friction between Bâby and Angus MacDonell continued until the latter was replaced by Pierre Point in 1843.

Bâby lived as a gentleman on his inherited wealth and the income derived from his property. He had, however, made some efforts to acquire more land. In 1799 he patented a grant for 1,200 acres in Yarmouth Township and that same year received 360 acres in Malden Township. But his most important holdings were in Sandwich Township, lots 79 and 80 in concessions 1 and 2 which he received from his mother in 1800 and their extensions in concession 3 granted in 1805. In 1836 he received the adjacent water lots on the Detroit River to build wharfs for the village being developed there. His land holdings were thus relatively modest in scale; however, in qualitative terms his Sandwich property was most significant since the village there was to become the future city of Windsor. On 4 Dec. 1838 the so-called battle of Windsor was fought in Bâby’s orchard. Critical of the summary executions ordered by Colonel John Prince* for the first five Americans captured in the abortive Patriot invasion, Bâby and his son-in-law, James Dougall*, were among those who cancelled their subscriptions to the Sandwich Western Herald, and Farmers’ Magazine for its support of Prince.

During the 1840s Bâby operated a government-leased ferry service to Detroit and ran an inn. He maintained his reform party contacts and in 1843 was recommended for a seat in the Legislative Council by Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine*. Though not appointed, he remained influential in local politics, chairing a rally at which Malcolm Cameron* spoke in 1849 and serving as a conduit for party patronage right up until his death three years later. A raconteur, Bâby had regaled the American historian Francis Parkman* in 1845 with tales of his father’s friendship with the Ottawa war chief Pontiac*. Parkman left a vivid description in his journals of Bâby’s “fine old brick house” (now the Hiram Walker Historical Museum), referring to its “waste and picturesque air – books, guns, neglected tables, old clocks, chests of drawers, and garments and Indian equipment flung around” as well as to “the little Negro girl, and the strange-looking half breed, who were sunning themselves among the hens and hogs in the back yard.” Perhaps the life and comportment of this Upper Canadian gentleman was best captured by his grandson: François Bâby “lived in a feudal sort of way and was very proud and, I might say, arrogant.”

John Clarke

Used with Permission from Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

AO, MS 392, 20-11 (Bâby family); 20-135 (G. F. Macdonald papers); MS 498; RG 22, ser.155, will of François Bâby. Archdiocese of Detroit, Chancery Office, Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures de Sainte-Anne (Detroit), 2 févr. 1704–30 déc. 1848 (transcripts at Detroit Public Library, Burton Hist. Coll.), 17 déc. 1768. Arch. of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Ser.1, AB03, 09, 20–21, 36, 39, 45, 47–49, 58; AC21–23; CA01–2; CB07, 10. Arch. of the Diocese of London (London, Ont.), Assumption Church (Sandwich [Windsor, Ont.]), Reg. of baptisms, marriages, and burials, 5 Sept. 1795, 28 Aug. 1852. AUM, P 58. MTL, Robert Baldwin papers; W. W. Baldwin papers. PAC, RG 1, L1; L3; RG 5, A1: 2668–69, 20799–811, 31701–3, 35694–95, 35704–10, 36398–99; RG 8, I (C ser.); RG 68, General index, 1651–1841. PRO, CO42/317: 189. The John Askin papers, ed. M. M. Quaife (2v., Detroit, 1928–31). “Journals of Legislative Assembly of U.C.,” AO Report, 1909: 23; 1914: 152–53, 314–15. Francis Parkman, The journals of Francis Parkman, ed. Mason Wade (2v., New York and London, 1947). The Windsor border region, Canada’s southernmost frontier . . . , ed. E. J. Lajeunesse (Toronto, 1960). Canadian Correspondent (York [Toronto]), 25 Jan., 8 Feb. 1834. Colonial Advocate (York), 1 May 1828; 7 Oct. 1830; 17, 24 July 1834. Upper Canada Gazette, 3 June 1824.

Armstrong, Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology. P.-B. Casgrain, Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Bâby et Perrault du Canada (Québec, 1898). [A. J. Dooner], named Brother Alfred, Catholic pioneers in Upper Canada (Toronto, 1947). E. J. Lajeunesse, Outline history of Assumption parish (n.p., [1967]). J. E. Rea, Bishop Alexander Macdonell and the politics of Upper Canada (Toronto, 1974). F. H. Armstrong, “The oligarchy of the Western District of Upper Canada, 1788–1841,” CHA Hist. papers, 1977: 87–102. John Clarke, “The role of political position and family and economic linkage in land speculation in the Western District of Upper Canada, 1788–1815,” Canadian Geographer (Toronto), 19 (1975): 18–34. R. A. Douglas, “‘The Battle of Windsor,”‘ OH, 61 (1969): 137–52. C. C. James, “The second legislature of Upper Canada – 1796–1800,” RSC Trans., 2nd ser., 9 (1903), sect.ii: 167–68.
 		François Bâby
 
8 Jeweler in Chicago's Loop business district. Harry J. Bâby
 
9 Henry graduated from Loyola Academy, Chicago, IL, in 1928. Like his father, Henry was also a jeweler in Chicago's Loop business district. Henry's grandson, Scott Bâby, graduated from Loyola Academy, Wilmette IL, in 1991. Henry Prindiville Bâby
 
10 Henry P. Baby, 91, of Winnetka, beloved husband of Anne, nee Perlitz; loving father of Henry Jr. (Betty), Nancy (Don) Kempf, Charles (Susan) and David (Blair); proud grandfather of Donald, Charlie, Stephen, Scott, Henry III, Mark, Stephen, Laura, Will, Brendan, Alexandra, Erin and Courtney; great-grandfather of Jack and Tom. Visitation Saturday 10 a.m. until time of Funeral Mass 11 a.m. at SS. Faith, Hope & Charity Church, 191 Linden St., Winnetka. Interment Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Loyola Academy, 1100 N. Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091. Funeral info, Donnellan Family Funeral Services, 847-675-1990. Henry Prindiville Bâby
 
11 BÂBY, dit Dupéron (Dupéron, Duperron), JACQUES, fur-trader and employee of His Majesty’s Indian Department; baptized 4 Jan. 1731 at Montreal (Que.); m. c. 23 Nov. 1760 at Detroit (Mich.) to Susanne Réaume (Rhéaume), dit La Croix; 11 of their 22 children survived to adulthood; d. c. 2 Aug. 1789 at Detroit.

Jacques Bâby de Ranville, grandfather of Jacques Bâby, dit Dupéron, was a scion of the decayed nobility of southern France and a sergeant in the Régiment de Carignan-Salières who married in Canada and settled as a rural merchant and farmer. Bâby’s son Raymond first went west with the fur brigades at age 15. In 1721 Raymond married Thérèse Le Comte Dupré, daughter of a Montreal family deeply involved in the fur trade although of seigneurial rank. Their son Dupéron therefore shared that heritage so significant in early Canadian history of vague pretensions to nobility coupled with dynamic participation in the fur trade and residency in Montreal.

When Dupéron first went west is unknown, but by 1753 he was a trader and Indian agent at Chiningué (Logstown, now Ambridge, Pa). In the Seven Years’ War he, his elder brother Louis, and his youngest brother Antoine were all trading in the west and saw military service in the Ohio valley alongside France’s Indian allies. A fourth brother, François*, handled the Montreal end of Antoine’s and Dupéron’s business on a partnership basis that would last until the death of Antoine in 1765. After the fall of French Canada in 1760, Dupéron refused to swear allegiance to George III. In Colonel Henry Bouquet’s words, “of a family noted for their influence among the Indians,” he was prevented from touring the western posts to collect his debts before returning to Montreal. His posture as a French patriot led to his arrest and temporary incarceration at Detroit on a groundless charge of plotting with Indians against the British occupying forces.

Dupéron’s intention was to leave Canada for France, there to join François, who had been sent to England as a prisoner of war. But upon arrival at Montreal in the autumn of 1761, Dupéron learned that François was moving their commercial relations from La Rochelle and Bordeaux to London, their French correspondents transferring cash balances and providing necessary letters of introduction. Dupéron also found that he was able to sell his furs advantageously at Montreal and that market prospects were good. He and his wife therefore returned to Detroit, the base of his operations, probably in the autumn of 1762.

Since he was permitted to return west, Dupéron had presumably taken the oath of allegiance at Montreal. He made his new position clear in Pontiac*’s uprising by first supplying the besieged British garrison at Detroit and then openly joining it. In 1777 he was appointed a captain and interpreter in the department of Indian affairs and was acting commissary in 1779. Although the latter office might seem to have entailed business advantages, Governor Haldimand’s aide-de-camp, Dietrich Brehm, stated in a letter from Detroit to his superior that “Mr. Bâby now is not able to mind his own bisnis of trade being interely taken up by the maniging of Indiens” and that he should therefore receive higher pay than the “common and lowlified interpreters.”

Dupéron lost considerably wealth by the discredit of Canada’s paper money after the conquest. The difficult business climate of the decades that followed is mirrored in his letters to François. He notes the swelling of the ranks of traders after 1765 (rightly predicting “the confusion will be dispelled by the ruin of the greatest number”), a change in market demand from beaver to luxury furs, the increasing competition of traders from Albany and New York who, he wrote, “sell here at almost as low a price as we buy at Quebec,” and the deterioration of the trade, especially after the American revolution. The year 1772 was the first in which he received fewer furs than he had anticipated.

However, Dupéron survived and prospered. Indeed, his 1785 outfit was the largest of his career, £5,000. He was undoubtedly a vigorous trader, admired by the Indians, demanding with regard to the quality of his merchandise, insistent on the early arrival of outfits each year, and having the competitive advantage of residency. From an early date he diversified his economic base by the development of lands. He had received several grants of land from Indian tribes in addition to his purchases. By 1789 he had 1,440 acres of developed land with two water-driven mills on the American side of the Detroit River and 720 acres on the British side. He also had an immense timber reserve northwest of Lake St Clair, given him by the Ojibwas (Chippewas). The value of his estate at his death cannot be determined with certainty; his will forbade his children to bother their mother with demands for an inventory. When she did authorize an inventory in 1800, the estate totalled about £24,570, most of it invested with Alexander Ellice* of London. That this money had formerly been invested in New York, either by Dupéron or his heirs, suggests the possibility that he may have developed trade relations with that city in his later years. It was his son James* (Jacques) who withdrew these American investments in 1793 and transferred the proceeds to London.

At his death Dupéron was 58, one-eyed, worn down by the rigours of frontier life, but not an old man. He did not live long enough to enjoy the dignified appointments he had received: a commission of the peace in 1784, the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Detroit militia in 1787, and a seat on the land board for the District of Hesse in 1788. His correspondence and actions suggest that he was straightforward, impulsive, and marked by the stubborn tenacity of the self-made man. His letters contain many thundering denunciations of his competitors, yet they also bear witness to the warmth and humour of a generous personality. Certainly his contemporaries admired him. “Poor Bâby died at Detroit about the first of August, universally regretted,” wrote the fur-trader John Richardson*. “He has not left such a Frenchman behind him.”

Dale Miquelon
Edited by Edward B. Baubie

Used with Permission from Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

ANQ-M, État civil, Catholiques, Notre-Dame de Montréal, 4 janv. 1731. ANQ-Q, Greffe de J.-B. Planté, 8, 12 nov. 1800; 20 déc. 1800 (nos.2536–41). ASQ, Fonds H.-R. Casgrain, Sér. O, 0423, 0475, 0476. AUM, P 58. BL, Add. mss 21638, pp.250, 253, 260, 268, 312; 21653, p.73; 21759, p.93 (transcripts at PAC). PAC, MG 18, I5, 1, pp.274, 887, 1052; 2, pp.8, 44, 362; 5/1, p.7; 5/2, pp.8, 350, 352; 6, p.124; MG 23, GIII, 7, John Richardson letters, Richardson to Porteous, 23 Sept. 1789; RG 4, B28, 115. PAO, Bâby papers, commissions, 1777, 1784, 1787; livre de comptes, 1788–91; Potawatomie land grant. PRO, CO 42/37, p.46 (transcript at PAC).

Quebec Gazette, 2 April, 29 Aug., 10 Sept. 1789. Lefebvre, “Engagements pour l’Ouest,” ANQ Rapport, 1946–47. Massicotte, “Répertoire des engagements pour l’Ouest,” ANQ Rapport, 1931–32, 1932–33. [P.-]P.-B. Casgrain, Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Bâby et Perrault du Canada (Québec, 1898–99). [François Daniel], Nos gloires nationales; ou, histoire des principales familles du Canada . . . (2v., Montréal, 1867). D. B. Miquelon, “The Bâby family in the trade of Canada, 1750–1820” (unpublished ma thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, [1966]). Peckham, Pontiac. P. J. Robinson, Toronto during the French régime . . . (Toronto and Chicago, 1933). P.-G. Roy, La famille Le Compte Dupré (Lévis, Qué., 1941).

 		Jacques Bâby, dit Dupéron
 
12 BÂBY, JAMES (baptized Jacques), politician, office holder, judge, landowner, and militia officer; b. 25 Aug. 1763 in Detroit, son of Jacques Bâby*, dit Dupéront, and Susanne Réaume (Rhéaume), dit La Croix; m. secondly 1802 Elizabeth Abbott, and they had five sons and one daughter; d. 19 Feb. 1833 at York (Toronto), Upper Canada.

An elder son of a prestigious family in the Detroit area, James Bâby was educated in the province of Quebec under the supervision of his uncle François*. He also took lessons in fencing and dancing, activities esteemed as attributes of gentility. At the conclusion of his studies his father sent him on a European tour, during which Bâby married an actress. Soon after, he was recalled by his father who effectively, if not legally, ended the union by providing her with a pension. Bâby was then initiated into his father’s commercial affairs and amassed considerable wealth.

Bâby’s family had been renowned for its loyalty to the crown since the conquest. After the division of the old province of Quebec in 1791 he became one of western Upper Canada’s foremost office holders. Because of his loyalty and the need to represent the French community in the area, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe* named him in 1792 to the Executive and Legislative councils and the county lieutenancy of Kent. Surveyor General David William Smith* noted the probable influence of Bâby’s uncle with Lord Dorchester [Guy Carleton*]: “The Interest which brought the Young French Gentleman into the Councils, has prevailed in having him appointed Lord Lieutenant for the County of Kent, & that interest was not only planted previous to the Governments taking place, but seems to have taken exuberant Root in Quebec; where his [James’s] Consequence, his Interest, his Property, & his Loyalty, seem to have been blazoned in lively tropes.” Bâby was also named to the first Heir and Devisee Commission and in January 1799 was, with Alexander Grant* and Thomas McKee*, temporarily appointed to the office of deputy superintendent general of Indian affairs.

When in 1793 Bâby accepted an appointment from Simcoe as judge of the Surrogate Court for the Western District he noted: “The thought that I may be useful, particularly to our poor Canadians who have no other support here but me, makes me inclined to put up with everything, whatever my reluctance.” The next year Bâby and Richard G. England*, the commandant of Detroit, organized the local militia, many of whom were French Canadians; in part, Bâby’s role was to secure the loyalty of his people. During the crisis in Indian-American relations in 1794, Bâby worked, again with England, to prepare the militia. Simcoe commended him for his efforts and put the 1st Kent Militia under his command. Following Jay’s Treaty of November 1794, the Bâby family abandoned considerable property in the Detroit region and moved to Sandwich (Windsor), where they built a residence and store.

Bâby augmented his finances by acquiring large amounts of land in various parts of Upper Canada, through entitlement and by purchase. In the period from 1793 to 1800 he bought town lots in Sandwich, Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), and York where he also received 200 acres for a house appropriate to an executive councillor. In 1793 he secured 3,000 acres in his father’s name, 1,200 acres for his mother, and 1,200 acres for each of his brothers – lands which were located in Yarmouth Township. Land records for 1805 indicate that Bâby had 7,000 acres in Yarmouth which he had received as the transferee of these individuals, as well as 4,600 in Dorchester Township (North and South Dorchester townships), 246 acres in Harwich Township, and 180 acres in Malden Township. The same records reveal that, although he was entitled to 6,000 acres as an executive councillor, he was only to receive 5,300 because of possible conflicts with other claimants. In addition, he claimed small acreages in Aldborough and Sandwich townships and 1,500 acres in Dunwich Township; he surrendered his title to the latter in 1806.

At the outbreak of the War of 1812 Bâby led the militia from Sandwich to Amherstburg. His own family was forced to flee when the invading American army entered Sandwich on 13 July and the Bâby home was pillaged. He was with Major-General Henry Procter’s force of regulars, militia, and Indians at the disastrous battle of Moraviantown on 5 Oct. 1813. Bâby was taken prisoner but released shortly after. He had sustained considerable losses. The damage to his home alone was estimated at almost £600 and he was never compensated. His greatest loss in these years, however, was his second wife, who died during an epidemic of fever in the winter of 1812–13. Tired, ill, with young children, and stricken with grief, Bâby retired to Quebec late in 1813 for rest and medical care.

In 1815 Bâby was appointed inspector general and moved to York where, with his five sons, he built a home on an estate with 1,500 acres of uncultivated land (Today, Bâby Point http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/regions/york/146.html) . He attended to his administrative and political duties faithfully and only on rare occasions missed a meeting of the Executive Council. In the capital he enjoyed the friendship of John Strachan* (one of the executors of his estate), John Beverley Robinson*, George Herchmer Markland*, and Thomas Clark. Like Bâby himself, they were members of the so-called “family compact.” His conservatism, his traditional Roman Catholicism, which inculcated respect for authority, and his refusal to accept American democratic ideas made him a natural part of this group. In addition to the inspector generalship, Bâby took on other tasks. He was one of the commissioners of forfeited estates charged with settling the property affairs of men such as Abraham Markle who had been traitors during the war. More important, early in 1823 he was appointed Upper Canada’s arbitrator in the dispute over the sharing of customs revenues with Lower Canada. He was surprised and flattered. Writing to a friend, he exclaimed: “I have become a great man, no less than Arbitrator for Upper Canada. What think you of this, a Canadian from Upper Canada to settle matters embarrassed by Lower Canada.” The arbitration was successful and ended an acutely difficult period in the province’s financial history. By 1827 Bâby’s influence was diminishing. He had become largely dependent on his emoluments from office to support his family. Historian John Charles Dent* suggests this reliance compromised him politically. For instance, on one occasion, Bâby voted against his conscience and with the administration on the issue of taxing wild lands.

While at York, Bâby continued to speculate in land. In 1830 he and ten other men, including his brother François*, were speculating in the Lake St Clair area of the Western District and encountering stiff opposition from Thomas Talbot*. Avoidance of taxation by speculators was a common occurrence in the early 19th century and Bâby was no exception. On a large number of his properties he failed to pay his taxes and as a consequence stood to lose more than 9,000 acres. The law, however, allowed those in arrears to redeem their property and Bâby did. In addition to his activity in the land market, he continued to receive land for his services to government. As a militia colonel he was allowed 1,200 acres, which he sought in Vespra Township. He died, however, before the transactions could be finalized, and 26 years later his only surviving executor (Strachan) was still involved in the legal ramifications.

At a period when pluralism of office was common, James Bâby was an office holder par excellence; between 1792 and 1830 he held more than 115 appointments or commissions of varying degrees of importance. Gracious and distinguished, he was the epitome of a gentleman. He was an impressive figure – clean-shaven, tall, good-looking, and well proportioned – and possessed, according to his grandson, a “primitive simplicity” and a “moral beauty.” Strachan eulogized him as “a Christian without guile, affable and polished in his manners, courteous in his conversation, dignified in his deportment, warm in his affections, steady in his friendships and unshaken in his principles and the spring of all his actions was of the religious.” A stalwart member of the Roman Catholic community, he played a key role in building York’s first Catholic church, St Paul’s. In his leisure he enjoyed fishing and gardening. His funeral was well attended, and shops and offices were closed in his honour. He was buried in St Paul’s churchyard and later was reinterred at Sandwich.

John Clarke
Edited by Edward B. Baubie

Used with Permission from Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Numerous references to Bâby may be found in the following collections: AO, MS 498; Arch. of the Archdiocese of Toronto, M (Macdonell papers); PAC, RG 1, L1 and L3; RG 5, A1; RG 8, I (C ser.); and RG 68, General index, 1651–1841.

Corr. of Hon. Peter Russell (Cruikshank and Hunter). Corr. of Lieut. Governor Simcoe (Cruikshank). J. C. Dent, The story of the Upper Canadian rebellion; largely derived from original sources and documents (2v., Toronto, 1885), 1: 140, 215–18. John Askin papers (Quaife). Armstrong, Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology (1967). H. J. Morgan, Sketches of celebrated Canadians. [E. A.] Bâby, Mme C.-E. Casgrain, Mémoires de famille: l’honorable C.-E. Casgrain (Rivière-Ouelle, Qué., 1891). W. L. Bâby, Souvenirs of the past, with illustrations: an instructive and amusing work, giving a correct account of the customs and habits of the pioneers of Canada . . . (Windsor, Ont., 1896), 58–71. P.-B. Casgrain, Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Bâby et Perrault du Canada (Québec, 1898). [A. J. Dooner, named] Brother Alfred, Catholic pioneers in Upper Canada (Toronto, 1947). Joseph Tassé, Les Canadiens de l’Ouest (4e éd., 2v., Montréal, 1882). F. H. Armstrong, “The oligarchy of the Western District of Upper Canada, 1788–1841,” CHA Hist. papers, 1977: 87–102. John Clarke, “The role of political position and family and economic linkage in land speculation in the Western District of Upper Canada, 1788–1815,” Canadian Geographer (Toronto), 19 (1975): 18–34.
 		James Duperon Bâby
 
13 BIO: James was born in Sandwich, Essex Co. the second son of Francis
Bâby and his wife Fanny. I understand that he helped his father in a
limited capacity during the War of 1812, but I'm not sure how, perhaps
as a messenger. He was educated as a lawyer and young in manhood
established himself in Lambton Co. He was considered a pioneer in
the area and settled on Lot 35 in Moore. When Moore was surveyed in
1829, James had 20 acres cleared. His father had owned the land from
Chenal Ecarte to the site of the present Port Lambton including the
locality still known as Babys Point, but he only held them as an
investment.
After his marriage in 1825, on a knoll overlooking the river, he
built a large frame house, which was still standing in 1948. The
stone for the cellar was brought from Amherstburg and the framework
was of stout oak beams. Nine children were born in that house.
James was an asset to the community. He represented Moore and
Enniskillen in the district council in 1842-3. Besides running his
farm, he also had a store and was in charge of the mail. He carried
on an export business in grain, hogs and farm produce to Detroit.
He built a warehouse and dock and also engaged extensively in the
lumber business.
His death occurred in March 1862. The cause was dropsy or heart
failure. (Sarnia Observer Obit.) His will made mention of Alexis,
Stella, William, Sophia Ann and Julia. Apparently the other children
had died or he had given them their share at some other time. Around
1885, his wife Alexis moved to Detroit, MI. and died there 5 years
later. 		James Francis Bâby
 
14 BIO: James Frederick married quite young. Evidentally this couple
had an agreement, because all of the girls were raised Church of
England and all of the boys were raised Roman Catholic.
James followed somewhat in his father's footsteps except that he
considered himself a merchant and not a farmer. In 1852, he built a
sawmill on the riverbank at the foot of Concession 6, commonly known
as Bbys line. In 1853, he added a gristmill. So extensive was his
lumber business, the river would often be piled with white oak logs
and vessels would be tied at the dock, three abreast, waiting to be
loaded with lumber, staves, cordwood and the products of the
gristmill.
For a few years, James and his brother William Lewis, were in
partnership together, but after the death of James, William went into
another business.
It is probable that James rode the river, like so many of his
contemporaries. A small article in the Detroit Free Press announcing
the death of James, called him "Captain" and said that "for many years
he had been prominantly connected with marine affairs. He died at the
home of Dr. Donnelly in Windsor at 1 o'clock in the morning. I
believe that the doctor was a friend of the Bby family.
His wife Sophia Ann came to Canada in 1833 and was educated at
home with her sisters. After the death of her husband in 1867 she
returned to her family home with her young family and remained living
there until after the death of her father and two unmarried sisters.
The old place was sold and in 1897, she went to live with her daughter
Mary in Hamilton. She died there in 1902.
1. Wright Genealogy 		James Frederick Bâby
 
15 BIO:Not much is known about this man. He also sailed on the Great Lakes
and in 1900 he lived in Port Huron at 613 White St. His children
were born in Port Huron and in the 1900 census his mother-in-law was
living with them. They eventually moved to Hamilton. 		James William Bâby
 
16 Canadian politician and magistrate. A native of Montréal (Québec), he was a lawyer. After an initial attempt to get elected to the House of Commons in 1867, he succeeded in the federal general election of October 12, 1872, and became the Conservative representative for the district of Joliette. He was re-elected on January 22, 1874, December 10, 1874, September 17, 1878 and November 14, 1878. From October 26, 1878 to October 28, 1880, he served as Minister of Inland Revenue. Later, he was appointed judge to the Court of Appeal. Louis-François-Georges Bâby
 
17 BIO: On June 1, 1880, the family was baptized into the Roman Catholic
Church at St. Alphonse Church in Windsor. Johns profession was a
lawyer. Sometime after 1891, they moved to Anna Maria Key, Florida.
1. Information on family of John Jones and Sophia was obtained from
the Wright Genealogy National Archives - Ottawa MG24 F94 #6
2. Census Records 1881-91 Lambton and Essex Counties
3. Church Records of St. Alphonse, Windsor, Ontario
4. Church Records of St. Josephs, Carunna, Lambton Co., Ontario 		Sophia Elizabeth Bâby
 
18 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
19 BIO: Like most young men, William probably thought that the grass was
greener on the other side of the river and he left home to test his
wings. His first marriage ended in divorce. There must have been
serious cause because divorce wasn't taken lightly in those days.
He married again five years later and there were two children from
that marriage.
His occupation was fireman for the Railroad and he was killed
while on duty near Mt. Olivet. His death occurred just four days
after the birth of their little girl. Their home was not too far from
where the Ambassador Bridge is today and he was probably buried at
Woodmere Cemetary because it was close to their home.
Helen never remarried and she worked at a number of jobs during
the years to support herself and her two children. At one time she
was a housekeeper in Delray, but mostly her occupation is given as a
clerk. She also moved quite a bit, but always stayed on the south
side of Detroit. At the time of her death, she lived at 5066 Oregon.
1. City Directories of Detroit
2. Wright Geneaology
3. Death record of William
4. Cemetery record of Helen 		William Francis Bâby
 
20 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
21 Art lived with his mother in Jackson, MI most of his childhood.
He was married by the age of 21years and at that young age was a
reporter for the Jackson Tribune. A couple of years later he moved
and eventually became an executive with the Westinghouse Corp. in
Pittsburgh and returned to Michigan in the early fifties to work for
the Chrysler Corp. He was the Director of Public Relations, which
implied that not only was he an outgoing, likeable man but that he was
a pioneer in his field.
He spelled his name Baubie, which is believed to have been
changed by his father around 1907. This is the first instance to have
been found in this branch of the family to use that spelling. 		James Arthur Baubie
 
22 Inhumed in the Shrine of the Roses located in the Chapel James Byron Baubie
 
23 The first time that James Byron Baubie showed up in the City Directory of Detroit was in 1902, well past the age of 18 years when young men or
women appeared as adults. At that time, he lived with his mother on Maybury Grand and Lafayette Ave. It would be interesting to know
what he had been doing previous to that time. I am guessing that he and Bessie married in 1906, because that year his residence is separate from
his mother and he resides at 158 Harrison Ave. His occupation is listed as a fireman.

The year of his sons’ birth (1907), he is boarding at 20 17th St. and from that point on, he is absent from the Detroit Directories.

James changed his name from Bâby to Baubie due to children calling him "Baby James".

He served in the Navy prior to WWI aboard the USS Salem. He enlisted 2/11/1909 as a
coal passer, promoted to 2nd Class Fireman on 9/15/09. He was rated as 1st Class Fireman 4/12/1910.

In 1910, his wife Bessie showed residence in Jackson, MI and is living with her mother and son. They have reversed the name of the
little boy which would probably indicate a lot of turmoil. They continued to live in Jackson until 1928 or 1929. Their life was very constant. Bessie's place of employment at the local corset factory was steady and
they only moved once in 19 years. Bessie married a Mr. Foote, but that was many years after her son had been raised.

James Byron remarried in 1917 to Ethel Marie Duckett. This probably caused much strife between him and his son James Arthur. He had two daughters (Frances and Barbara) with Ethel and I’ve been told that he was gentle father by Frances before her death.

He served in the army in World War I and was a tool and die maker at the Dodge Main Plant in Detroit.

1. Wright Genealogy
2. Detroit City Directories
3. Detroit Birth Indexes
4. Royal Oak Tribune - Obituary: 21 May 1973

Edited by Edward B. Baubie 		James Byron Baubie
 
24 Age 88. December 2, 2007. Husband of Mary DeLong Baubie; father of Virginia Baubie (Charles Jr.) Whitney; grandfather of Kathleen Elisabeth (Katie), Marjorie Edith (Maisie), James Robb Baubie Jr., Whitney Elisabeth Baubie,Stephanie Fruehauf Baubie, and Elisabeth Blossom Whitney. Also survived by his stepchildren Margaret Harris and David (Yumiko) Harris and their children Jennifer Miller, John McNaughton, Elizabeth McNaughton, Emily Harris, and Sam Harris; sister Sally Baubie Baker; and stepmother Estelle Johnson. Husband of the late Elisabeth Robb Baubie and father of the late James Robb Baubie and William E. Baubie III. Visitation will be Friday from 5-7 p.m. at Christ Church Grosse Pointe, 61 Grosse Pointe Blvd, Grosse Pointe Farms. Memorial service will be Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Christ Church Grosse Pointe. Burial will take place in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit. Arrangements by Hamilton Cremation Society of Grosse Pointe (313) 417-9650. William Edward Baubie, II
 
25 William Edward Baubie III
Died: Saturday, December 01, 2007
Age: 88

Long-time Grosse Pointe Farms resident William E. Baubie II died Sunday, Dec.1, 2007. He was 88 years old.

He was born May 28, 1919 in Detroit to Raymond and Edith Riley Baubie. He was named after his grandfather, William E. Baubie, a French-Canadian poet and attorney, who instilled in him the charm of telling a good story.

Mr. Baubie was educated in Detroit and started college at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, but interrupted his education to join the U.S. Army Air Force.

During World War II, he was a navigator on Crew 38, 61st Squadron of the 39th B-29 Bomb Group based in Guam in the South Pacific. He flew 20 missions over Japan, and attributed his experience during the war with teaching him about dealing with hardship.

His family described Mr. Baubie as a man who loved life. He experienced great highs and lows in his life, but generally considered himself a survivor.

Mr. Baubie married Elisabeth Robb in 1951 and was blessed with three children: Bill, Robb and Gina. He worked in investment banking at Baker-Simonds, E. F. Hutton and First of Michigan. He served on numerous local corporation boards including Vernors Inc., Detroit Savings Bank, and Cottage Hospital.

He was president of the Country Club of Detroit, a place he loved for his opportunity to golf, play bridge and connect with friends and family.

Mr. Baubie also was a member of the Yondotega Club, The Grosse Pointe Club, and The St. Andrew's Club in Gulfstream, Fla.

Mr. Baubie's wife, Liz, died in1978 after a long battle with breast cancer. He married Mary DeLong Harris in June 1982. They shared a love of worldwide travel as well as returning to family-centered places such as Manitoulin Island and the Huron Mountain Club. They also enjoyed spending time together in Delray Beach, Fla. at their winter home as Mr. Baubie loved being by the ocean. He took special delight in his grandchildren.

Mr. Baubie is survived by Mary, his wife of 25 years; daughter Viginia Eaton Baubie Whitney (Mrs. Charles R. Whitney Jr.); daughters-in-law Kim Baubie and Cynthia Baubie Gullickson; grandchildren Kathleen Elisabeth Baubie, Marjorie Edith Baubie, J. Robb Baubie Jr., Whitney Elisabeth Baubie, Stephanie Fruehauf Baubie and Elisabeth Blossom Whitney.

He also is survived by his sister, Sally Eaton Baker (Mrs. Sheridan Baker Jr.); stepmother Estelle Baubie Johnson; stepchildren Margaret Harris and David M. Harris and their children: Jennifer Miller, John McNaughton, Elizabeth McNaughton, Emily Harris and Sam Harris.

He was predeceased by his first wife, Liz; and sons J. Robb Baubie and Dr. William E. Baubie III, both of whom died in 2000.

The Service of Celebration will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Christ Church, 61 Grosse Pointe Blvd., Grosse Pointe Farms.

Memorial donations may be made to Beaumont Foundation -Grosse Pointe, P.O. Box 3802, Troy, MI 48007-9620 or The Detroit Institute for Children, c/o The Development Department, 5447 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202 		William Edward Baubie, II
 
26 BIO: With the death of William Bentley, prosperous owner of textile
mills in England, one son of Nathan Bentley, William Montgomery
told the other two that their fortune had been lost and so Arthur
Nathan and Edwin Middlebrook traveled to northern Michigan with their
parents with that which was left to live as country gentlemen farmers
All was lost in a fire. Arthur Nathan had attended Huttersfield in
England, as did his father and grandfather, for two years when the
first tragedy occurred. He was also in the choir of the Anglican
London Cathedral. He was a reader, enjoyed cricket and football
(soccer) and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He liked music, especially
opera. He was a very gentle man. He lived in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and Jackson, MI where he worked for the state prison. He
was a very skilled man at carpentry and the inmates loved him very
much. They would build cabinets with inlayed pearl for him. He was
also the superintendent of a textile plant -industries- Jackson, MI. 		Arthur Nathan Bentley
 
27 Inhumed in Section P, E-15 of the Chapel Bessie B. Case
 
28 Quebec surveyor, civil engineer and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada for De Lanaudière division from 1900 to 1939.

He was born at Quebec City in 1856, the son of Philippe Baby Casgrain, and studied at the Séminaire de Québec. He qualified to practice as a provincial land surveyor in Quebec in 1878 and as a dominion land surveyor for Canada in 1881; he also later qualified as a surveyor for Ontario and Manitoba. He later became chief engineer for the Montreal and Pacific Junction Railway, also serving as a director for the company. Casgrain was also chief engineer for the Montreal Turnpike Trust. He was president of the Montreal Herald. In 1885, he married Ella, the daughter of lumber merchant James William Cook.

He died in office in 1939.

Taken from Wikipedia.org
 		Joseph Philippe Bâby Casgrain
 
29 Lawyer and Author

Son of Charles Eusèbe Casgrain by his wife Elizabeth-Anne Baby. The name Casgrain is ancient in French history, and several possible derivations have from time to time been put forward. Some have suggested "castrum agrinum" or "castinetum agrinum" for geographical reasons connecting the family with the Chateau d'Agrin in Velay; while others, in view of the wheat sheaf on the coat of arms, suggest "casa grani", the house of wheat. Whichever is correct, there can be no doubt of the antiquity of the family, for it is definitely mentioned as far back as the middle of the sixteenth century. The name is not common now in France, and though it is fairly frequent in Canada, it is an established fact that all who bear the name Casgrain here to-day are the direct descendants of the one Quebec family. Jean-François Cassegrain of the parish of Airvault, France, formerly a member of the famous Irish Brigade, was the founder of the illustrious line which has given the Dominion so many splendid statesmen, scholars and citizens.



Casgrain was born in the City of Quebec 30 December, 1826, and was educated at the College of Ste. Anne de la Pocatière. For several years Casgrain studied law in the office of Mr. Jean Thomas Taschereau, who became later a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1850 Casgrain was called to the Bar, and entered into partnership with the Hon. Pierre Joseph Olivier Chauveau, at that time Solicitor-General in the Hincks-Morin administration. He was created K.C. in 1879.



Not long after this he was appointed to the Prothonotary's office of the Superior Court in the Province of Quebec, and served as Deputy Prothonotary for thirteen years. At the close of his parliamentary career he was made clerk of the Circuit and Revision Court. His profound knowledge of the law was highly respected by the other members of his profession, and the Attorney-General, his nephew the Hon. T. Chase Casgrain, profited by his learned advice frequently and gratuitously.



His political life was full of action and incident. In 1872 his eminent cousin the late Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, the Hon. Luc Letellier de St. Just, persuaded him to stand as a Liberal candidate in the then violently Conservative constituency of L'Islet. On the day of nomination they travelled from Rivière Ouelle to St. Jean Port Joli, the county town, and there, after a stiff bout of fisticuffs, succeeded in handing in his papers. In the ensuing election he was victorious over the former member by the narrow margin of forty votes.



In the House of Commons he distinguished himself as a facile debater in opposition, and endeared himself to both sides by his courtesy. Casgrain's son was at the time an interpreter in Parliament, and to him Sir John A. Macdonald delighted to remark: "Your father is the finest gentleman in the House, my boy, but his politics are all wrong." This was usually said when the member for L'Islet was within earshot.



Casgrain was a fluent speaker in both languages. He made valuable contributions to the Liberal side of the debates on the New Brunswick school question, the Pacific scandal, and the Riel rebellion. He served on several important Royal Commissions, including that which investigated the abuses in the administration of public affairs in the county of Rimouski. His broad humanity was shown in the House when it was moved to devote twenty thousand dollars to the erection of a monument to the memory of Sir George Etienne Cartier. At his suggestion the sum was set aside, and the interest sent to the wife and daughters who were living in dire necessity in Rome.



Casgrain, with other prominent Liberals, refused to accept either the policies or the leadership of the Hon. Honoré Mercier, and stood for his sixth electoral contest in L'Islet in 1891, as an Independent Liberal. He was declared elected, but was defeated on a recount by two votes, because a poll clerk had omitted to initial some ballots. And so be left the House after a closely fought battle as dramatically as he had entered nearly twenty years before. Throughout his long life he had made an exhaustive and specialized study of history, and his greatest contributions to literature are in this connection. From his mother, who had written a Mémoire de famille (Rivière Ouelle 1891), and from his researches among the lives of his ancestors, he arrived at most interesting discoveries in the history and geography of Quebec . Among the famous landmarks which he identified are: Champlain's fountain, the houses in which Montcalm lived and died, and the house of Abraham Martin after whom the Plains of Abraham are named. It was largely due to Cas grain's efforts that the Plains were secured as a national monument.



His literary output was enormous, and the titles of his published works show probably better than anything else the nature and extent of his researches. Relating to his family he published Letellier de St. Just et son Temps (Quebec, 1885), La Vie de Joseph-François Perrault, surnommé le père de l'éducation du peuple canadien (Quebec, 1898), and Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Baby et Perrault du Canada (Quebec, 1898).



In addition to this voluminous work he found time for many pamphlets and articles on historical and legal subjects which appeared from time to time in periodicals and in the Transactions of the Royal Society. He was twice president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (1898-1906), and in 1908 he received the diploma of honour from the Royal Society of Canada for his zeal in archeological research. He was a member of the Navy League, and also president of the Canadian Landmarks Association.



In 1854 he married Charlotte Mathilde, daughter of Col. Perrault, the educationist. Of this union there were five sons and three daughters. Casgrain died 23 May, 1917, and was buried in Bellemont Cemetery. Mme. Casgrain predeceased him in 1910, and he was survived by the Hon. Senator J. P. B. Casgrain, Canon Casgrain, formerly a major of the Royal Engineers, Perrault Casgrain of Quebec, Mme. Eudore Evanturel, Mme. Alexandre Taché, and Mme. Pascal Poirier.



Casgrain's other published works were as follows: La fontaine d'Abraham Martin et le site de son habitation, (Ottawa, 1903); La Maison d'Arnoux où Montcalm est mort, (Lévis, 1903); La Maison de Borgia, premier poste de Wolfe, à la bataille des Plaines, où était-elle située? (Ottawa, 1904); The Monument to Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham and the old statue at Wolfe's Corner, (Ottawa, 1904); Le Moulin de Dumont , (Lévis, 1905); La Maison du Chien - d'Or à Québec, (Quebec, 1905); L'habitation de Samos, (Ottawa, 1906); Les batailles des Plaines d'Abraham et de Sainte-Foye, (Quebec, 1908); La Réserve de M. Ailleboust dans l'enclos de Québec. La chapelle et le tombeau de Champlain, (Quebec, 1909); Notre Système judicaire. Brèves suggestions de réformes urgentes, (Quebec, 1911); Cadet, sa maison et residence à Québec, (1906); De Vitré, a Canadian Mariner, (1904) and A Few Remarks on Various Gallicisms and French Locutions in the Plays of Shakespeare, (1907). (Morgan, Can. Men, 1898 and 1912; H. Charlesworth, Ed. Representative Canadians, Toronto, 1919; Wallace, Dict. Can. Biog . 1926; Bull. rech. hist. 1917; Gazette, Montreal, 25 May, 1917; private information.]



Source : G. A. G., in Charles G. D. ROBERTS and Arthur L. TUNNELL, A Standard Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The Canadian Who Was Who, Vol. 1, Toronto, Trans Canada Press, 1934, pp. 108-109. A few minor typographical errors have been corrected.
 		Phillipe Bâby Casgrain
 
30 Philippe Baby Casgrain (December 30, 1826 – May 23, 1917) was a Quebec lawyer, author and political figure. He represented L'Islet in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1873 to 1891.

He was born at Quebec City in 1826, the son of Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain, and studied at the College of Ste. Anne de la Pocatière. He articled in law with Jean-Thomas Taschereau, was called to the bar in 1850 and practiced at Quebec with Pierre Joseph Olivier Chauveau. In 1854, he married Mathilde Perrault. He was named deputy protonotary for the Quebec Superior Court in Quebec district. Casgrain was named Queen's Counsel in 1879. After he retired from politics, he was clerk for the Quebec Circuit and Revision Court. He served several terms as president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.

Casgrain published a number of works on the history of Canada, including:

Letellier de Saint-Just et son temps (1895)
La vie de Joseph-François Perrault, surnommé le père de l'éducation du peuple canadien (1898)
La fontaine d'Abraham Martin et le site de son habitation (1903)
La maison d'Arnoux où Montcalm est mort (1903)
La maison du Chien d'Or à Québec (1905)
Les batailles des plaines d'Abraham et de Sainte-Foye (1908)
La chapelle et le tombeau de Champlain (1909)
He died at Quebec in 1917.

His son Joseph Philippe Baby became a member of the Canadian Senate.

Taken from Wikipedia.org
Source: Library and Archives Canada 		Phillipe Bâby Casgrain
 
31 Lumber Merchant by trade.

Taken from Wikipedia.org 		James William Cook
 
32 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
33 [tooker.ftw]

HELEN VAN TASSELL BABY LIVED AT 446 12 TH STREET, DETROIT, MI IN 1909 ACCORDING TO JAMES BRYON BAUBIE'S LOG OF THAT YEAR. 		Helen Elizabeth Van Tassel
 
34 BIO: William Elliot Wright was born on 12 October 1785 at Gravesend,
England where his father was connected with the dockyard. He entered
the Royal Navy, 26 July 1798 and saw much active service, rising
steadily in the rank. In 1816, he was a Lieutenant on the H.M.S.
Newcastle, one of the ships guarding Napolean at St. Helena and in
1817 he was made Commander. On the 21st of July 1818 on the Island of
St. Helena, the Rev. Bowater J. Vernon married William and Jane, the
youngest daughter of Richard Leech who was the Governor of "The
Honorable East India Company's Stores". The following year, he
retired to live in England, at Lee, Kent where the three eldest
children were born.
He afterwards moved to Chudleigh, Devonshire and lived there
until 1833, when he brought his family to Canada. They stayed in
Toronto a short time, where the youngest child was born. From there
they went to Amherstburg and remained nearly a year waiting for their
log house at Carunna to be finished. In 1834, his wife died of
cholera, leaving him to take posession of his new house with seven
children and his step-sister, Miss Ann Goble, who devoted the rest of
her life to caring for them.
Here at "Oaklands" (So named for Jane Leech's house on St.
Helena) on the banks of the St. Clair River, seven miles south of
Sarnia, he lived until 20 Jan 1969, when he died at the age of 84
years. 		William Elliot Wright
 
  

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