Just got back from vacation so I apologize for the delay in replying. Pays d'en Haut referred to the Trois-Rivieres, Quebec area and the Mauricie county, not Upper Canada. There was a movie made this year: Un homme et son péché. (A man and his sin) It was based on a Quebec-made weekly TV series "Les Belles Histoires des Pays d'en Haut", which ran many years ago. It was the story of a man who loved money above all and took a man's daughter for his wife as payment for the man's debt. It depicted the life of that area in the early 1800s (I think) Karole Dumont -----Original Message----- From: R D Winthrop [mailto:RDWinthrop@a1access.net] Sent: August 29, 2003 10:53 AM To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NISHNAWBE] Pays de Haut >> Here is a link that shows how the country was divided. Lower Canada, Upper >> Canada and Rupert's Land. In Oka when they talked of Pays d'en Haut they >> were referring to Upper Canada. <http://www.londonhistory.org/upper.htm> > Now I am wondering even more. I thought she was born around St Michel de > Saints, Berthier Co. Quebec but that would be Lower Canada. ______________________________ 'Think in Time' and it will be clear why the characterization of the 'Pays de Haut' simply as the equivalent of Upper Canada is not entirely accurate. "Pays de Haut" is a term of the French regime, probably from 17th c. The British administrative divisions of Upper and Lower Canada are 18th c. constructions (as was Rupert's Land, which was essentially the Hudson's Bay Company trading concession). As Larry W pointed out, the "upper country" was a great deal larger than just Upper Canada, including most of what would become the American Northwest Territory as well as what would becomee Upper Canada. Consider the Pays de Haut to be the watersheds of the Great Lakes (excluding Lake Ontario). Regards - rdw ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237