| 4. | VASSEUR Charles and died. Notes:
Vasseur, Charles, the grantee of Park lot No. 6, Tiny, in 1834. He was born at St. Maurice, Quebec, served with the "Voltigeurs,: then went west with the Hudsons Bay Company. He joined the British forces and was at the capture of Mackinaw in 1812. There were six brothers and all went to Mackinaw and followed the British to Drummond Island, thence to Penetanguishene. While at Mackinaw Charles married a young half-breed woman, named Marguerite Langlade, a near relative of the famous Captain Langlade and cousin of the Langlades of Tiny. Charles and several others, under Captain James Darling, walked all the way to Toronto and back during the Rebellion of 1837. He brought the first cow and the first yoke of oxen ever used in Penetanguishene from Georgia, around by Point Mara, the "Narrows" (Orillia) and Coldwater, thence home; the latter portion of the way being only an Indian trail so narrow and bad that he often had to carry the yoke on his shoulders and drive the animals ahead in single file. His mother visited Penetanguishene twice while living at Mackinaw, after which she moved to Green Bay, Wis., where she died. Charles drowned near Manitoulin Island, where his remains are buried. His wife died at Ontonagon, Mich., where is son Louis still lives. He had a family of fifteen children, only the eldest having been born on Drummond Island. I gleaned these reminscences from his son Paul, living at Penetanguishene, who claims that his father had a medal won fighting for the British, but that it has been lost.
Charles married LONGLADE Margaret. Margaret was born in 1801; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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