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Dufour Families Association of America Inc.

 - 2008 next meeting

- Projets:

- Meeting 2007 in St-Joachim

 - News-paper "Dufour", Autumn  2007

- Addition

in the Book

 of Archives

- New edition of History & Genealogy of Dufour Families

-Adress Executive Board

1. Meeting 2008 :  

[ N.B. As of now, it is desirable "to mean" with the Secretariat your intentions so that the organizers of this activity can take measurements in order to answer it adequately at the requests of housing, meal, etc.... ]

• Place: Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, 

• Date: May 17, and 18 2008 (weekend of the Feast of the Patriots) 

• Theme:  At the opportunity of the 400e Birthday of the foundation of Quebec in 2008, The Twentieth meeting of the Association of the Dufour Families of America Inc., will be a large happening of Dufour of America and its will be held in this area of the Coast of Beaupré which saw the arrival and the installation of our ancestors of America. For one, Gabriel-Robert Dufour settled there about 1690. 

• Program summary: person in charge:  Henri Dufour, de Ste-Anne of Beaupré  

           Saturday, May 17: 

                12 h. to 14 h. Welcome and inscription in the Auberge of the Basilica 

                14 h. to 16 h. GENERAL MEETING of the members. Elections of the administrators. 

                17 h. Cocktail and presentations. 

                18 h. Supper. Concert of song. 

                21 h. Dance.... 

          Sunday. May 18: 

                09 H. 30  Mass in the Basilica (350th of the foundation of this parish (1658) Recall of the work of the

                              ancestor Robert Dufour in 1694 with the restoration of the 1st church. 

                11 H. 30  breakfast  

                13 h. Visit on St-Joachim (site of the foundations of the 1st church where Robert Dufour married twice

                        and where its funeral were celebrated in 1720, in spring probably). 

                        Also, visit of the monument set up on the ground of Robert Dufour. 

                15 h. Back to home.

2. Projects :   [ More details will be given to you in the next months ]

• 2009: In order to point out the FOUNDATION of our Association (in September 1989 in Alma, on the Lake St Jean), ALL Dufour of America will be to invite to reinforce their family links, to more discover their history and their values, to crystallize their feeling of membership of the great stocks families which made the history of Quebec and the continent. Also It will be the 21e gathering in the history of our Association of the Dufour Families of America!

• 2010: Area of Outaouais or Laurentides: Marie-Paule and Françoise will associate assistances for the preparation of this activity.

   

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3. Gathering 2007      :

• According to the minutes of the meeting of the Board of administrators (September 29, 2007), "Unanimously, one known as satisfied with these hours spent to the "Grande Ferme", Center Initiation of the Inheritance. The members appreciated the heat of the reception, the easy contact between the 35 participants at the time of the picnic external and especially the guided tour of the field of the character of Mgr of Laval. 

• What a emotion to find itself on the remainders of the first church of St-Joachim where the Gabriel-Robert ancestor married initially in 1694 and then in 1703! 

• It is wished that many other members of Association be able to go to "Grande Ferme". 

• For the election to the Board of directors, it did not have an individual proposal there, the president asking each one directly if it wished to renew his mandate."

• the Executive Council (click this page) is then formed.

• Also on this gathering of 2007, here was not some representative of the other lines of Dufour: In the 2006 meeting, here was a representative of the "Dufour said Bonvivant", a descendant of Pierre Dufour said Bonvivant: After having married Charlotte Gloria said Desrochers to Notre-Dame of Montreal in 1737, This soldier immigrated in Fort Detroit, Michigan, which was at that time a French possession in North America, and where its descendants live since nearly 3 centuries.

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4. News bulletin  :

• The News bulletin was published in April by the secretariat.

• It will give you some informations about the may 2008 meeting in Ste-Anne -de-Beaupré,  Also the financial statements .

• If you want to receive, join the Association by annual adhesion (10$) and communicate to secretary dufour.gerard@videotron.ca

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5. Important addition in the last edition of Archives Book  :  

• In the last edition of our files, the families of the descents of Joseph, Bonaventure and Gabriel WERE INDEXED alphabetically by the name of the head of household. Also for the families of Claude Dufour.

• In the Book, these 4 INDICES are inserted in the pages which follow each one of these 4 lines, thus making it possible more quickly to target these families in the preceding pages.

• In the descents of Joseph, that means One file of 4 pages in 3 columns; In that of Bonaventure, One file of 6 pages out of 3 columns, and in the line of Gabriel, two files of 6 and 8 pages out of 3 columns. For the line of Claude, two pages on 3 columns

• As the 4 files are independent one of the other, it is relatively easy to print or import by Internet that which interests you.

• According to your interest, communicate with the Archivist or the secretary [ Addresses in bottom of this page

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6. New EDITION  : of the Book: "Histoire et Généalogie des Familles Dufour" 

                                                                              (no tranlated in English)

7. Postal ADDRESS & E-Mail :    

• President : Léonie Girard-Dufour, 290, Thériault, Alma, Qc., Canada, G8B 5Z8

• Secretary : Gérard Dufour , 65 Sauvageau, Trois-Rivières, Qc, G8T 6B4

• Archivist : Jean-Paul Dufour, 2204-1, Des Roitelets St, Saguenay, Qc, G7H 7W9