Haitian Immigrant: History Of Montreal

Baraca Dept: Her name was Catherine Baraca. She belonged to Dominique Gaudet, a merchant of Montreal and Lachine. Gaudet owned her parents, too, Pierre Baraca and Marie-Anne, as he had owned her sister, Marthe, who had died five years before Catherine was born at Lachine on March 17, 1746, according to Montreal Gazette. There was a provisional British military government, but it would be another couple of years before a peace treaty Feb. 10, 1763 would settle the question of whether the colony would remain British or revert to France. Slavery went on another 40-odd years in what is now Quebec, petering out in the first decade of the 19th century, largely as a result of a string of court rulings and few people in the history of Montreal can have sacrificed more for love than Louis Antoine. A Haitian immigrant in his 20s, he sold himself into slavery in 1761 in order to be able to marry the girl of his dreams. It was wartime when they married, just six months after the military surrender of New France to the British at Montreal on Sept. 8, 1760. The town was a mess, the future uncertain. As reported in the news.
@t montreal gazette, girl of his dreams