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Genealogy of the Valley. 63
de Salaberry. There has recently come to Aylmer a man whose ancestral
tree is the oldest in Canada, and possibly dates farther back than
any other on the continent. It extends back to the Kings of Navarre,
when in 825 A.D. the son of Garcia the first son of Semon due of
Vasconie, was proclaimed King, or Prince of Navarre. Four kings
follwed in succession. The branches of the tree bear the names
from age to age of the Dukes of Gascony ; En Ezi (first Viscount of Sault) ;
Viscount of Sault, to Fort-Aner, who in 1072 became Viscount of Bayonne
and Labourd, Signor and Baron of de Sault and Chalosse. The next
branch, in 1210, we find the line carried by Pierre Arnaud, son of Arnaud,
Baron de Sault and St. Pee. This line ran on through three houses, to
Raymond de Sault, son of Pierre Arnaud, in 1233, when the head of the
house was dIrumberry. Through nine successions we come, in 1422, to
Pierre dIrumberry, Knight Baron Signor of dIrumberry and de Salaberry.
Nine more successions bring the family down to (1659) Martin dIrumberry
de Salaberry, Signor of Irumberry and de Salaberry, who was the father
of Michel dIrumberry de Salaberry, Captain of the French man-of-war,
Le Chariot Royal. Michel was born in 1690. He was the head of the
family in Canada. He came over in 1735. He was the father of the
Honorable Colonel Louis Ignace dIrumberry de Salaberry. We now
come to one of the most prominent figures in Canadian history the man
who did much toward preventing annexation, by scaring off with a
handful of French farmers and a few hundreds of Indians our General
Wade Hampton, from taking Montreal, which he would have done had he
not run away, at the battle of the Chateauguay, since his force was so
greatly superior to that of Colonel Charles Michel dIrumberry de Salaberry.
Canada has justly honored his name for his bravery and shrewdness
at that battle. His son was Lt. -Colonel Charles deSalaberry, father
of the subject of this sketch, Rene de Salaberry, late of Chambly, P.Q.
Mr. de Salaberry, with his thousand or more years of honorable
ancestry, makes not half the pretence that many a man whose father had
started a simple chore boy.
NOTES: Colonel Louis Ignace de Salaberry was Major of the first
French Canadian Regiment in Canada, under English rule. This regiment
was commanded by the Baron of Longueuil, who resigning, was succeeded
by Major de Salaberry, who, later was made Commanding Officer of all
Quebec militia. He defended St. Johns, P.Q., and Fort Chambly against
the American troops in 1776. He was twice wounded. He was made a
member of the Legislative Council. He was an intimate friend of
the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria), who gave commissions to his
five sons. These sons distinguished themselves in the building of the
British Nation of the nineteenth century. Four of the five were killed
two in Spain and two in the West Indies. The one who came back became
the hero of Chateauguay the Hon. Charles Michel de Salaberry, C.B.
It was Michel Q., founder of the family in Canada, who in an early
naval engagement blew up his ship, rather than surrender it to the enemy,
who were then his later friends, the English. He was rescued by Indians
from drowning, and reached Quebec, through the forest. He was ordered
back to France where, at La Rochelle, he died in 1760.
Of this once numerous family, there are but three left in Canada the
subject of this sketch and two cousins.
Rene de Salaberry was educated at LAssomption College. He took
degrees at Laval University Montreal and Quebec. He was admitted to
the bar in 1896. He began practice in Joliet District and is now in the
Ottawa District since 1901. He is becoming one of the most successful
practitioners in the District, having carried through cases which had
attracted wide attention. He married Miss R. Faribault in 1894. Their
children are: Louise, Bernard and John.

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