The larger group is a sample of the group of Fontaine dit Bienvenu who assembled in August 18th weekend, 1991, who are descendants from Pierre Adolphe and Délia- St. Martin Fontaine. My father told me that he had 72 first-cousins, having had 10 siblings and 11 aunts and uncles. Our elder sitting in front is Clothilde Bruneau/Fontaine born Muloin in 1902 , who was married to Arthur Fontaine, son of Pierre Adolph; and on her left is Father Edouard Fontaine living at the time in Lafayette Louisiana where he was responsible for a Catholic  chapel of worship with devotion to Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. 

Regrettably Arthur died in 1955 at the age of 53 and Clothilde remarried as widow to Paul Bruneau who died in 1994

Picture on the right is one of two groups of Fontaine relatives who gathered for our 102 years in Manitoba celebration which was held on August 18-1991 in Sainte Agathe Community Park, east of the Red River and the town. These are descendants of  Adélard Fontaine and Célina Desrosiers , married in  St. Hughes Bagot, Quebec and moved to Sainte- Agathe Manitoba in 1892.  Adélarde  was nephew to François-Xavier Fontaine dit Bienvenu, and son of David Fontaine dit Bienvenu and Léocadie Déry, who both lived and died in St. Hughes Bagot Quebec.

 

 

Francois-Xavier and Marie-Lumina Fontaine dit Bienvenu, and brother David Fontaine dit Bienvenu and wife Léocadie Déry, came to Manitoba as the first western pioneers of our Fontaine branch in 1889 after having done a short digression into Rhode Island USA between 1867 and 1877 during a period of economic decline in agriculture in Quebec. Francois-Xavier and family moved back to St. Marcel Quebec where his son, Pierre Adolphe married Delia St. Martin in 1884, then emigrated to Sainte-Agathe Manitoba with their belongings and three oldest sons: Alphonse, Philias, and Hector, my grand-father.

They had been offered a small stipend and promise of land along the Red River, along with some 300 other colonists moved to the Red River Valley and took up unseeded territory of the Anicinabe/Cree tribes which were more nomadic at the time. This was a means for the Canadian Federal government and the Catholic Church to implant french speaking colonists into the local population to supplement the local Metis and Indigenous populations.

 

Audio recording: Habitant de Plaine, original song by Roger R Fontaine,  all instruments, analog and digital, played by Roger R Fontaine, recorded and mastered by Roger R Fontaine in home studio-Yamaha DGX and Korg TR 61 keyboards on Presonus Studio One Artist version 5 software.

The most common variant to the surname Fontaine is 'Lafontaine" found in the départements of northern France mostly, followed by  Surnom Fontana in the south in Rhone, Isère, Bouche du Rhone, Var and Alpes-Maritimes;  and Fontaneau in the west, in Vendée and Loire Atlantique,Charente, Charente Maritime, and Deux-Sèvres;  Fontenel  focused in Haute Savoie , with a small number of  'delaFontaine" in decline and mostly located in Oise, Calvados, and Manche.

Source

https://www.filae.com/nom-de-famille/DELAFONTAINE.html

 

Signification et origine du nom FONTAINE

Origine : l'origine de ce nom est indo-européenne l'étymologie de ce toponyme provient du latin médiéval fontana qui signifie : la source / la fontaine .

The surnom "fontaine"  appears to have a indo-european etymology originating from the medieval latin 'fontana" which signifies : the source/ the fountain.

==Source--

https://www.filae.com/nom-de-famille/fontaine.html

There are many songs which honour the surname "Fontaine" such as the popular: 'A la claire fontaine" which every french school age child has learned.

 

FONTAINE : Nom de famille 

Les FONTAINE, naissances en France

• Total des naissances pour le patronyme FONTAINE :
  1891 - 1915 : 9 094
  1916 - 1940 : 13 566
  1941 - 1965 : 20 333
  1966 - 1990 : 19 876
• 62 869 personnes nées en France depuis 1890 à 1990, dans 101 départements
• 24 rang des noms les plus portés en France

Signification et origine du nom FONTAINE

Origine : l'origine de ce nom est indo-européenne l'étymologie de ce toponyme provient du latin médiéval fontana qui signifie : la source / la fontaine .

La généalogie des FONTAINE

Collections généalogiques

• Etat-Civil (646 225)
• Arbres Généalogiques (284 117)
• Recensements, Electeurs (109 974)
• Décorations, Titres, Pensions (1 795)
• Archives Militaires (1 690)

Dans les départements

• Nord (59) (99 430)
• Pas-de-Calais (62) (64 201)
• Ille-et-Vilaine (35) (61 848)
• Seine-Maritime (76) (52 764)
• Calvados (14) (47 652)

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Dans les communes

• Paris (24 992)
• Saint-Pierre (9 480)
• Paris (8 771)
• Saint-Louis (7 620)
• Saint-Joseph (6 619)

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FONTAINE , vous voulez dire ...

• FONTAINE,
• FONTANA,
• FONTENEAU,
• FONTAN,
• FANTIN,
• FONTANEL,
• FONTENELLE,
• FANTINI,
• FONTANILLE,
• FONTANET

Les Variantes de FONTAINE

• LAFONTAINE,
• DEFONTAINE,
• DESFONTAINES,
• DESFONTAINE,
• DELAFONTAINE,
• DEFFONTAINES,
• OZIER-LAFONTAINE,
• DECOULARE-DELAFONTAINE

https://www.filae.com/nom-de-famille/FONTAINE.html

 

https://www.filae.com/recherche-genealogique/recherche-arbres-genealogiques-FONTAINE

 

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