Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

Although we found mention of L'Ile aux Chats during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how L'Ile aux Chats was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about L'Ile aux Chats (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for L'Ile aux Chats. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Cemeteries Near L'Ile aux Chats ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of L'Ile aux Chats.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for L'Ile aux Chats covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from L'Ile aux Chats, with the one closest to L'Ile aux Chats listed first.

Brownsburg RC Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brownsburg RC Cemetery
Edina Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Edina Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Edina Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northeast of Pine Hill.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2271135 <3>
Louisa Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Louisa Cemetery
- The Louisa Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Aidans Church Cemetery
Scotch Road Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scotch Road Cemetery
- The Scotch Road Cemetery has also been known as:
- Mountain Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2365444 <3>
Calumet Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calumet Cemetery
- The Calumet Cemetery has also been known as:
- Calumet / Edendale Cemetery
- Edendale Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287617 <3>
McLaughlin Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McLaughlin Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2545034 <3>
Cassburn Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cassburn Cemetery
- The Cassburn Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cassburn Methodist Church Cemetery
- Cassburn United Church Cemetery
Grace Anglican Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grace Anglican Cemetery
Mille Isles Christ Church Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mille Isles Christ Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2504209 <3>
Mille Isles Protestant Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mille Isles Protestant Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364778 <3>
Kirkhill United Church Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkhill United Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2224508 <3>
Lost River Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lost River Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2353272 <3>
Continue List (17 more) ...
- Avoca Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Avoca Cemetery
  - The Avoca Cemetery has also been known as:
  - McNeill Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2317729 <3>
- Pointe au Chene Protestant Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pointe au Chene Protestant Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2613058 <3>
- St. Jerome Catholic Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Jerome Catholic Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2429822 <3>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around L'Ile aux Chats. See our List of 1890's Communities around L'Ile aux Chats.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to L'Ile aux Chats:

Websites specific to Quebec
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search

Cemetery Information and Directories for Quebec
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Quebec
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Quebec
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Quebec

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past L'Ile aux Chats and then turned west". While L'Ile aux Chats could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added L'Ile aux Chats as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that L'Ile aux Chats could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Quebec community named L'Ile aux Chats.
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- L'Ile aux Chats) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in L'Ile aux Chats. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5839, Longitude: -74.3789
<3>	The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.