{"id":16438,"date":"2015-04-04T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2015-04-10T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:13:24","slug":"when-did-the-charles-mathieu-family-move-back-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/when-did-the-charles-mathieu-family-move-back-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"When did the Charles Mathieu family move back to Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charlieinjury\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been trying to trace my great-uncles\u2019 family ever since my great aunt told me that everyone, except his older brother Raymond, moved back from Michigan after Charlie\u2019s dad lost his job in the depression.<\/p>\n

According to his Ontario birth certificate, my great-uncle Jean Charles Horace Mathieu was born to Charles Mathieu and Mary in Fort William, Ontario on April 24, 1911,[1]<\/a> so that\u2019s where my research began.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, the family had moved to 500 Aylmer Avenue in Windsor, Ontario, where they were renting a six-bedroom house. Both parents were 51 years old by then. His father Charles worked as a carpenter. His wife, who was born Marie Agn\u00e8s Proulx, was then called Agnes. (She went by Mary and\/or Agnes depending on the documents.)<\/p>\n

Jean Charles had two older brothers, Arthur (16) and Raymond (14), an older sister Fernanda (12) and two younger brothers, Lawrence (8) and George Albert (6). [2]<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no hint of the family from then until 1932. There is one person who has a family tree on Ancestry who indicates that a Fernanda Mathieu crossed into Canada in 1924. That may have been John Charles\u2019 sister, but it isn\u2019t confirmed.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t able to find the family on the 1930 U.S. Census.<\/p>\n

By using Steve Morse\u2019s search engine<\/a> to search Lovells directory, I was able to find a carpenter named Charles Mathieu living at 6760 St. Denis in 1932[3]<\/a>. I don\u2019t know whether this was Charlies\u2019 family or not.<\/p>\n

If it was, they left Montreal again, because there are no listings for carpenters named Mathieu between 1933 and 1939.<\/p>\n

Their next appearance in Lovells is 1940 when a carpenter named Mathieu lived at 3286 St. Antoine.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s definitely them. I have an undated newspaper clipping about Aircraftman J.C.H. Mathieu between injured in a flying accident that says his parents lived at 3286 St. Antoine. [5]<\/a> That clipping is undated, but I know that Jean Charles Mathieu lived in Montreal when he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force in Montreal on August 8, 1940.<\/p>\n

My original question remains unanswered.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Photocopy of Province of Ontario pocket birth certificate issued at Toronto on November 10, 1947, registered in April 24, 1911 in Fort William, Thunder Bay District by Geo. H Dunbar, Registrar Dunbar.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> 1921 Canadian Census, Province of Ontario, District of Essex North, Roger West Minard Subdistrict, Number 47, June 13, 1921, B, Page 20, derivative source.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Lovvell\u2019s Montreal Alphabetical Directory, 1932, p1456<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Lovell\u2019s Montreal Alphabetical Directory, 1940, p1771.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> \u201cAirman Injured,\u201d Montreal Gazette, undated clipping, author’s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been trying to trace my great-uncles\u2019 family ever since my great aunt told me that everyone, except his older brother Raymond, moved back from Michigan after Charlie\u2019s dad lost his job in the depression. 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