The Origin of Mathurin Dubé Mathurin Dubé came from a tiny village of Vendée (a french province) called "La Chapelle Thémer". Located about 210 miles south-west of the french capital of Paris, it is also in the vacinity of La Rochelle, an old seaport from which many french settlers started their journey to the new world. In 1667, Mathurin Dubé aquired land on the south side of St-Jean de I'lle d'Orleans, Canada (then called New-France) facing St-Vallier. A few years later, he married Marie Campion. She came in the colony with a group of women called "The King's Girls". Their marriage was celebrated at Ste-Famille de I'll d'Orleans on September 3rd, 1670. Their children, 2 girls and 6 boys were born between 1672 and 1694. In 1686, Mathurin decided to move to La Pocatière, on the south shore of the St-Lawrence river. He worked at the landlord manor there until he died on December 28th, 1695 at 64 years of age. He was buried at Rivière Ouelle. Four of Mathurin's sons also married and thousands of their decendants are now located in Québec, New-Brunswick, Main, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and all over the United States of America. If you bear the name of Dubé (in any of the variations), you are among them. Start your tour at the Outline Decendant Tree style index or from the Decendant Tree style index. Pierre Lacombe is a researcher of the Dubé family as well and the source of the description of Mathurin on this page.