Ambrose Cyrette
| Ambrose Cyrette | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1832 |
| Died | 1912-05-17 Port Arthur |
| Years in Thunder Bay | at least 1873–1912 |
| Occupation | tug operator |
| Children | |
Ambrose Cyrette (c. 1832 – 17 May 1912) was a resident of Fort William, Ontario.[1]
Treaty annuity
Cyrette was named on the Fort William paylists of the Robinson-Superior Treaty annuity payments from at least 1879 to 1900, sometimes written Ambrose Cyrette and sometimes Cyrille Ambrose.[2][3][4] The same Fort William lists also name Ambrose Jr. Cyrette and Clement Cyrette (with Mrs Clement). The paylist rows do not state their relationships.
The 1897 remarks on ticket 4 and on ticket 145 are a primary statement that the person paid as ticket 145 (Ambrose Jr. Cyrette) was a boy from no 4: "No 4. boy married to girl of No 9 now 145."[5][6] He held ticket 4 in that year, and still held it in 1900.[4] He was the father of Ambrose Jr. Cyrette. The Ontario civil birth register for that son (Ambroise, born 5 January 1873 in the County of Thunder Bay) names the father as Ambroise Cyrette, "Proprietor of a tug," and the mother as Louise Louir.[7] The 1920 death registration of Ambrose Jr. names the father as Ambrose Cyrette, born at Fort William I.R., and the maiden name of the mother as Louise Charles.[8] Those two records, with the 1897 ticket remark, identify this man as the father. Louise Charles was his wife at the date of that birth.
Tug operator
Cyrette owned or operated a tug that was chartered for a trip to the Little Pic River, as recalled by Walter William Palmer. Palmer did not date the charter; he placed it among journeys between a visit to the mines at Port Arthur in 1875 and a railroad passage through the Sudbury formation in the fall of 1890.
A visit to the mines at Port Arthur in company with Messrs. Walbank and Pilgrim in 1875, and thence three visits to Silver Islet, a charter of Ambrose Cyrette's tug to the Little Pic, and a railroad passage through the formation of Sudbury in the Fall of 1890, round up all the writer knows about mining in Ontario.
The 1873 civil birth register of his son Ambrose Jr. Cyrette describes the father as "Proprietor of a tug."[7]
1901 census
The Fort William Band schedule of the 1901 Census of Canada, enumerated as of 31 March 1901, has a household headed by Leyrette Ambrose, age 58, with wife Angelic, 47, and son Paul, 5 (family 340, Book #2, page 7, LAC reel T-6554, image 816).[10] Leyrette is the form used for the Cyrette surname on this schedule. Age 58 at last birthday would imply a birth about 1842 or 1843. That does not agree with the age 80 given in the 1912 death notice, which implies a birth about 1832. Both figures are recorded here; neither is preferred. The schedule has no birth-date column.
References
- ↑ Fort William Daily Times-Journal, 18 May 1912, p. 2
- ↑ Paylist of Robinson Treaty annuities, Fort William, 1879, ticket 1, "Ambrose Cyrette family". Héritage, LAC reel C-7167, image 298.
- ↑ Pay-list of Robinson Treaty annuities, Fort William, 1898, ticket 4, "Cyrille Ambrose". Héritage, LAC reel C-7169, image 502.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pay-list of Robinson Treaty, Fort William, 1900, ticket 4, "Cyrette Ambrose". Héritage, LAC reel C-7169, image 552.
- ↑ Pay-list of Robinson Treaty annuities, Fort William, 1897, ticket 4, remark "No 4. boy married to girl of No 9 now 145". Héritage, LAC reel C-7169, image 469.
- ↑ Pay-list of Robinson Treaty annuities, Fort William, 1897, ticket 145, "Cyrette Ambrose Jr". Héritage, LAC reel C-7169, image 473.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Archives of Ontario, civil birth register, 1873, p. 102, general no. 046321, Ambroise, born 5 January 1873, County of Thunder Bay. FamilySearch, "Ontario Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899", Birth Registers 1873, image 58 of 79, ark:/61903/1:1:F2NZ-3JF (page ark 3:1:9Q97-Y3SW-BCD). Archived.
- ↑ Archives of Ontario, death registration 032078, County of Thunder Bay, entry no. 5, Ambrose Cyrette. Ontario Death Registers 1921, image 222 of 1471, p. 128. FamilySearch, "Canada, Ontario, Deaths, 1869-1937", ark:/61903/1:1:J6K9-57M (page ark 3:1:S3HY-676B-GV). Archived: upper part of the entry, lower part of the entry.
- ↑ Walter William Palmer, "A Pioneer's Mining Experience on Lake Superior and Lake Huron", in Second Report of the Bureau of Mines, 1892 (Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1893), p. 178. Ontario Geological Survey ARV02. Archived.
- ↑ 1901 Census of Canada, Ontario, district 44 Algoma, sub-district 78 Fort William Indian Reserve, Book #2 page 7, family 340, LAC reel T-6554, image 816. Archived.