History of the Pierre Corriveau Family

Pierre Corriveau Family 1918, Seattle, Washington

Back: l-r, Adolph & Philip; Center, Joseph, Wilfred, Louis, Pauline; front, Flora, Gertrude & Pierre

Pierre Corriveau, born June 29, 1857 in St-Maurice, Quebec, Canada to Antoine Corriveau and Sophia Desserres. He was the 6th child of 13 born to this union. His father, Antoine, was a farmer and logger in the area around St-Maurice, Quebec. Pierre is the 7th grandson of Francois Corriveault, born at St-Front, France in 1610. St-Front is in the Province of Charente. Francois' son, Etienne, was our first Corriveau Ancestor to arrive in Quebec in 1666.

Pierre's birth is recorded at the Catholic Parish of St-Antoine-de-la-Riviere-du-Loup as evidenced by the attached birth record obtained from the Quebec Archives.

Between the years 1866 and 1875, approximately 50,000 people per year left the Province of Quebec to seek jobs in the New England States, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The reason for this movement was the decline of the lumber industry in Quebec coupled with the assumption of endless forests of America enabling the America's to expand west ward.. Although Pierre was born in Canada, as a young child moved with his family to Spruce / Kelly Brook, Wisconsin Area.

Pierre later moved to Oconto, Wisconsin where he was employed at several of the Lumber Mills in the Oconto Area. In 1879 he married Marie Flora Brule, daughter of Antoine Brule and Josephine Amelie Beauchamp. Flora had been born in Maskinonge, Quebec and baptized at the same parish church that Pierre had been.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Pierre and his children moved north to Niagara, Wisconsin and he and many of his sons worked at the Kimberly Clark Paper Mill in Niagara. In 1905 Pierre's oldest son, Philip had gone west to Seattle, Washington to scope out the many jobs available in that area, which had been fanned by the Alaska Gold Rush, and the vast Old Growth Cedar forests of the Pacific Northwest.

In a newspaper article published in the Marinette Daily Eagle Star, April 20, 1909, we find that Pierre's two boys Philip and Joseph (accompanied by their wife's Mary Raboin Carriveau & Delia Raboin Carriveau had left their families in Niagara and moved west to their new homes in Washington State.)

In the next few years, the rest of the Pierre Corriveau family moved west to Seattle. Because of the close relationship between the Corriveau and Raboin families, several of the Raboin Family members also moved west to Seattle between 1911 - 1915.

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Descendants of Pierre August Corriveau

Generation No. 1

1. PIERRE AUGUST⁸ CORRIVEAU (ANTOINE⁷, ANTOINE⁶, JEAN MARIE⁵, JEAN MARIE⁴, JEAN BAPTISTE³, ETIENNE², FRANCOIS¹ CORRIVAULT)^1,2 was born June 29, 1857 in Wolf River, St. Maurice, Quebec, Canada, and died August 30, 1929 in Seattle Washington. He married FLORENCE MARIE BRULE'³ June 16, 1879 in Oconto, Wisconsin, daughter of ANTONE BRULE' and JOSEPHINE BEAUCHAMP. She was born April 28, 1856 in Quebec, and died May 17, 1929 in Seattle Washington.

Children of PIERRE CORRIVEAU and FLORENCE BRULE' are: