A non-profit entity incorporated on November 19, 1986 (charter number 2422-3497), the Pelletier Family Association serves and unites nearly 500 active members. We extend an invitation of membership to all those bearing the Pelletier name – either by blood or by marriage – and to all those simply interested in the history of the Pelletiers.

Joining the Pelletier Family Association is the best way to learn about your family!

All members of the Association have access to their own personal Pelletier family tree. Moreover, all Association members automatically receive four quarterly issues of “La Pelleterie” magazine, which includes articles in both French and English. Finally, each year the Association hosts a Pelletier Family Reunion, to which all members are cordially invited.

Other Sections To Visit :

• History of the Association
• How to become a Member
• Association Achievements
• Pelletier Family Association Boutique (ACROBAT 'PDF' DOCUMENT)
• Constitution and By-Laws (ACROBAT 'PDF' DOCUMENT)

Past Reunions: Where & When ? :
 

Association Objectives :

• To unite and link, via one association, the greatest number of people bearing the name Pelletier, who are related, either directly or by marriage, to one or another ancestor, by:

• To honor the memory of our ancestors with memorials, monuments, and commemorative plaques.

• To encourage cultural and tourist exchanges with the ancestors’ home provinces and their de-scendants throughout the world.

• To establish a genealogical research center.

• To collect all documents and files pertaining to the Pelletier family for inclusion in the Association’s archives.

Administrative Council 2007-2008

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History of the Association

The  Pelletier families Association Inc was founded in 1986. J.Roland Pelletier, working as a land-surveyor and geometrician, was the instigator of the project. His goal was to form an association where all the Pelletier of America, and later those of other continents, would join to better understand their ancestors and at the same time, to learned of their past. It is what he explains in a letter addressed to the Pelletier that he knew or of which he read the name in the bulletin of the Association of genealogy of Quebec. He hoped to collect and garther  all the information and write a historical book about the life of our ancestors.

The foundation meeting took place on November 8, 1986. In welcoming speech by   J.Roland Pelletier suggested the official name of Association, its goal, and its registered office with the "Fédération des familles souches". A constitution and regulations was created to form the patent letters. They were adopted and signed on November 19, 1986. A chozen coat of arms will represent the official armorial bearings of the Pelletier Families.

The first general meeting took place on September 13, 1987 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. At this time there was tree hundred and seventy-five (375) registered members to the Association. A Standing Committee composed of twelve person replaced the provisional committee. This committee was elected for three years and hoped that other members will come to join them in the administration. One had to compel ourself to twelve (12) available places. However, at the second annual general assembly in Laval, there were sixteen (16) elected members and a seventeenth member was named with the approval of the assembly. That one was in fact the organizing president of the third rallying. Legally we exist since September 13, 1987.

Allow us if you will, to quote an extract of "La Pelleterie", vol. 5 No 3, fall 1991, page 30: "This gathering of people, coming from all the corners of the continent, whose only common ground is their family name... What a strange phenomenon  in our culture where the word "Family" is often followed by the term "divorced" or "reconstituted", here we are with a crowd full of  relatives or cousins, only because of a name that was transmitted from a distant ancestor!"

As the former president Guy-R.Pelletier said in his message to the members at the time of the 10th annual gathering held in Rimouski : "ten years ago, when I answered J. Roland Pelletier and attend to the founding meeting of our association, I never believed that ten years later this association would have become as it is"

Since the beginning, four presidents guidedour association: J Roland Pelletier (1986-1994) president founder 1986-1989, Andre Pelletier 1989-1992, Guy-R. Pelletier of 1992 to 1996. Denis Pelletier is the current president since 1996.

Each passingyear, either it's during a visit, while listening to a presentation or any others programmed activities, one always get something good from being a member of the Association..

Association Achievements

September 8, 1991 - Beauport

On it's fifth annual gathering, the Association, accompanied with the mayor of Beauport, Mr. Jacques Langlois, revealed a memorial to the memory of their ancestor, Guillaume Pelletier. More than 500 Pelletier celebrated the 350e anniversary of his arrival in New-France.

The ceremonies of the official inauguration of the commemorative memorial were done near the Tessier-Laplante House in Courville (2328 Ave Royale, Beauport, Qc), N46 53.098, W71 09.478, that is to say it's the place where Guillaume Pelletier, his wife Michele Mabille and their son Jean were established in 1641. Conceded by the first lord of Beauport, Robert Giffard, the ancestral land of the Pelletier had a width of 6 arpents facing the St. Lawrence river and extended in-depth to the Montmagny river. An interesting fact to underline, today you'll find two churches on the land, that of Saint-Louis de Courville and Saint-Grégoire de Montmorency.

The province of Quebec toponymy commision, responsible for the management of the place names, agreed to the request of association officialize the toponym "Brésolettes" which will indicate this site henceforth.

This new denomination will point out the birthplace of Guillaume Pelletier. According to the writer Robert Prévost, Bresolettes was the  smallest of the communes of the old county of the Perche and the father of Guillaume, Éloi, had established residence there to exert the trade of coalman.

October 23, 1998 - St-Roch-des-Aulnaies.
 

It is interesting to mention that the beautiful stone which is used as support to the commemorative plaque comes from the farm "Beaux-Prés" of St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, which belongs to Real and Placide Pelletier. It thus comes from the ground having belonged to the ancestor Jean.

That day, the president of the Pelletier family Association Inc, Denis Pelletier, accompanied by about thirty guests, revealed a memorial to the establishment of the ancestor Jean Pelletier to the "Grande-Anse", and more precisely in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies. The plaque was fixed on a stone monument which the Association had set up on August 7, 1998, prior to its 12th annual rallying, on the site of the seigneurial manor and of its communal mill. The commemorative stele was installed beside the one which was set up in the honor of Pierre St-Pierre, the other pioneer of St-Roch-des-Aulnaies.. In his speech, the president recalled that not only Jean Pelletier and Pierre St-Pierre had been, in 1679, the only two pioneers of St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, but also that the Pelletier and St-Pierre families were the only ones to live there for about fifteen years. This is why no other monument will be set up on the site of the domain.

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