Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
Although we found mention of Notre Dame du Lac Station during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Notre Dame du Lac Station 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 Notre Dame du Lac Station (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 Notre Dame du Lac Station. 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.
Name Variations for Notre Dame du Lac Station ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Notre Dame du Lac Station: Notre Dame Du Lac Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Newspapers Published in Notre Dame du Lac Station ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Notre Dame du Lac Station.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Notre Dame du Lac Station, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Notre Dame du Lac Station.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Notre Dame du Lac Station:
- Websites specific to Quebec
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Quebec
Cemeteries Near Notre Dame du Lac Station ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Notre Dame du Lac Station.
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 Notre Dame du Lac Station covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Notre Dame du Lac Station, with the one closest to Notre Dame du Lac Station listed first.
- St. Jacques Church Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- St. Louis Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Louis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Louis Cemetery
- Baker Brook Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Congregational Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Congregational Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Congregational Cemetery
- St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Fort Kent (ME).
- The St. Louis Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old St. Louis Cemetery
- St. Louis Cemetery Old
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2393985 <3>
- St. John Catholic Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. John Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John Catholic Cemetery
- St. Hilaire Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- The St. Hilaire Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cimetiere St. Hilaire
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Hilaire Cemetery
- St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- St. John Baptist Church Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. John Baptist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John Baptist Church Cemetery
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- St. Luce Catholic Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- St. Pauls Congregational Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Pauls Congregational Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Pauls Congregational Cemetery
- St. Charles Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Charles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Charles Cemetery
- St. David Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Notre Dame du Lac Station. See our List of 1890's Communities around Notre Dame du Lac Station.
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 south past Notre Dame du Lac Station and then turned east". While Notre Dame du Lac Station could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Notre Dame du Lac Station 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Notre Dame du Lac Station 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 Notre Dame du Lac Station. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Notre Dame du Lac Station) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Notre Dame du Lac Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.6033, Longitude: -68.7731 |
| <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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |