François Noel Annance
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/a/annance_francois-noel.pdf
François' great grandparents were New Englanders who were captured by the Abenaki as children and grew up among them, marrying as young adults. His father, Francis Annance, was one of a group of four boys who, as a result of Protestant missionary activity, were sent to school in New Hampshire. Francis Noel attended Moor's Indian Charity School as a young adult. He was in the Columbia District in 1820 as an employee of the North West Company and was retained by the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to the Abenaki village of St. Francis in 1845. For biographies, see Fleming 1940:426; Williams 1975:200; and Maclachlan 1993:35-9. ~*~ François was listed as the father of three boys in the report McDonald sent in February 1830. One son was born on 23 December 1826 (McDonald 1826:13d), and one of the three was drowned (Annance 1832) ~*~ François found that a whiteman's education did not bring him the privileges he desired. The Native strain in his mixed blood prevented him from rising above the role of Indian Trader or postmaster. Foster 1975 describes the position of Indian trader as one to which the mixed-blood children of the fur trade aspired, but François was not born or raised in fur trade society and had undoubtedly been given reason to believe that his superior education would provide him with the same opportunities as other clerks. James McMillan felt that either François Annance or Donald Manson could have taken charge of Fort Langley, and he found François "as usual very useful" (McMillan 1827b:17) but George Simpson chose to leave Archibald McDonald in that position. ~*~
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From Lou Annance
I have read that Noel [François] had three sons. One of them died at a young age, I think his name was John. The youngest son, Archie came back east with his father. Would you have any info to share about any of the three sons? Archie made quite a name for himself here.
Did you know that there is an island, and just recently a street in Vancouver named for Noel? There is also an island in the St. Francis river in Quebec named for him. I have tons of info if you are interested. The only thing that I am lacking is the name of one of Noel's sons.
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