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At the time of writing, the toponymic heritage of the Blais family expresses aspects of our culture and is part of our collective heritage to remember : 

  • Frank-Blais Street, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada
    • This thoroughfare is located in Amos, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Its name commemorate François '' Frank'' Blais (1875-1949) / (P15536), husband of d'Alvina Gervais  (P15535). He operated a sawmill in Amos from 1914 until its closure un 1935, He served as a federal Member of the parliament for the Chapleau constituency from 1935 to 1940.


  • Blais Township, Québec, Canada
    • Blais Township is located east of lake Matapédia ans is draines by the Causapscal River. The individual honored by this designation is André-Albert Blais (1842-1919) / (P4542), a native of Saint-Vallier in Bellechasse. Initially a curate in Sillery, he later became a professor at the Collège de Lévis and the Séminaire de Québec. After obtaining his doctorate in canon law in Rome, he taught this subject in Québec City. He served as  chaplain to Sister of the Good Shepherd, coadjutor bishop to the Bishop of Rimouski, and finally bishop of that diocese from 1891 until his death in 1919.


  • Blais Street, Sept-Îles, Québec, Canada
    • Guillaume, known as William Blais (1871-1953) / (P4819) was born in Pointe-aux-Esquimaux/Havre-St-Pierre on October 28th, 1871. From his marriage to Marie Gallant (P4833), six children were born. Originally from Aguanish and a fisherman by tradre, he arrived in Sept-Îles in 1900. He passed away on February 9th, 1953 in Sept-Îles.


  • Blais street, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada
    • This street recalls the presence of Jacques Blais II (P5) who reportedly left Berthier for Yamachiche around 1714. Jacques was likely the forst Blais to settle in Yamachiche. Indeed, his eldest son, Jacques Blais III (P108), was born in Yamachiche in 1715 and died in Trois-Rivières in 1810 at the age of 95 - a record of longevity for that era. In the excerpt below from the land registry acknowledgment (aveu et dénombrement) of February 18, 1723, for a ''part of the fief known as Grosbois'' 26, along the riverbank northeast of the small Yamachiche River, Jacques Blais II (P5) owned a plot of land measuring 6 by 15 arpents ( No 3038), featuring a house, barn, and stable. Twelve arpents of this land were recorded as plowed, which was three time more than that of his brother Jean-Baptiste ( No. 3047), where only a house stood at the time. 


  • the Dictionnaire numérique des familles Blais d’Amérique (Digital Dictionary of Blais of America) Included 159 237 individual and 68 696 families. According of the evolution of the databse, the longest lifespan ins held by Yvonne Blais (P24201), who reached the age of 110. The daughter of Joseph Blais (P21923) and Anna Lajoie (P21922), she was born in 1900 in United States and passed away in Montreal, QC, on July 18, 2010


  • Membership Card No. 1 was issued on October 11, 1999 to Ronald P. Blais (P14441) of Center Barnstead, NH, USA.


  • The Fall 2024/Winter 2025 publication will mark the 74th issue of the Journal des Blais Since the Association des Blais d'Amerique was founded in 1999. The Association ins currently supported by 266 members, 45 whom are from outside Québec, distributed as fallow : 
    • 15 from Ontario
    • 10 from Saskatchewan, British-Colombia, and Alberta;
    • 2 from Nouvelle-Écosse;
    • 18 in the USA ;
      • Californie, Connecticut, Floride, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York et Virginia.


  • The website Whitepages.com confirms that there are ten thousand eight hundred and thirty four (10 834) BLAIS in the USA.  

  • 18% of the ABA members come from Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region. 

  • The Quebec place name database maintained by the Commission de toponymie Québec confirms that there are 178 BLAIS place names in Québec. 

  • Dean Charles Blais (P127447), son of de William Dean Blais (P127445) and de Marvel Berryman (P127446), born in 1951 in International Falls, Koochiching, Minnesota, USA is an ice hockey coach. He served as the head coach pf the University of North Dakota men's hockey team. He is of Quevec descent from Chaudière-Appalaches region through André Blais (P7162) and his wife Émilie Couture dit Dubuc (P7352) and is a direct descendant of Antoine Blais (P4) and Jeanne Lamy (P96), son of the ancestor Pierre Blais (P1) and Anne Perrot (P2).  

 
Note : when searching for an individuel in the Digital Dictionary of Blais Families of America, which is accessible free of charge to all our members, the '' probant'' (ID) number can be highly useful.
Ex. :         Pierre Blais (P1)
                P = Probant (ID number)
               1 = NIdentification number in the Digital Dictionary of the Blais Families of America. 
 
 
 
 
 

Last update for this page : August 4, 2024