by Bruce W. Taylor of New Liskeard, Ontario.
Many years ago, when I first became interested in my mother's family, the Plaunts, I remember being told that the family were originally Huguenots, French Protestants who came to Canada from France to escape religious persecution. I was later to find out that the true story was quite different. 
Although the "Plante" family, as it was originally spelled, came from an area of France where there was considerable religious strife between the Huguenot Calvanists and the Catholics, the family were solidly Catholic. The Huguenot story was perhaps a rationalization to explain the fact that the Plaunt family from Renfrew have been mostly Protestant since the early 1800's.
The story of the Plaunt (Plante) family from their original home in Larochelle France, to Quebec, and later to Ontario is a fascinating history that spans twelve generations in Canada, and transcends the cultural boundaries of the Catholic Quebecois and the Protestant settler in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario.
This story starts in France in the 1650s, and makes its way to Temiskaming District in Northern Ontario in the 1990s - 340 years of Canadian history - from the beginning of the French settlement of Canada, through the British conquest of Canada in 1759, through Confederation in 1867 to the present.
Table of Contents below.
WMPub#1002 | 6 x 9" | 84 pages, paperback | $12.95
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Table of Contents | |||
Preface |
v | ||
Introduction |
viii | ||
Chapter |
1 |
The French Roots |
2 |
Chapter |
2 |
The New World Beckons |
4 |
Chapter |
3 |
New Beginnings in Ontario |
11 |
Francis Xavier Plaunt |
12 | ||
The McLeans and Ritchies |
16 | ||
Chapter |
4 |
Xavier Plaunt- Pioneer and Businessman |
21 |
Chapter |
5 |
The Plaunt Family of Renfrew |
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Descendants of Francis Xavier Plaunt |
33 | ||
The Thomas Ritchie Plaunt Family |
35 | ||
The Joseph Plaunt Family |
62 | ||
Janet Plaunt and the Kosmack Family |
67 | ||
The Francis Xavier Plaunt Family |
70 | ||
The William Plaunt Family |
76 | ||
Bibliography of Source Materials |
79 | ||
Index |
80 | ||
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