Histories,
whether they are of a people, of a town, of a country or of a family,
histories
are based on a collection of facts. These are usually believed to
be true and certain. They are quite often found in record books
and
libraries, and stored away in dusty cabinets and boxes, only to be
brought
out on rare occasions by painstakingly patient researchers.
We have all, at one time or
another, undertaken
much research into a variety of archives, sifting through stacks of
information
and noting references to Pilons in areas of interest to our
inquiries.
Most of us simply file away these notes and allow the next family
historian
to "discover" these sources of valuable information. We have
decided
to make our work available to others who share our interests through
this
web page. In addition to providing this information, we also
provide
the sources of these facts, which can be verified, cross-checked and
perhaps
mined for more elements of our past. Our greatest hope is that
others
will find these files of use.
Choose from the following:
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Philippe
Pilon (1913-1944), Royal Canadian
Artillery (in English) |
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Gerard
Russell Eddy Pilon (1923-1945), Le Régiment de Maisonneuve (in
English) |
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Bernard
Gaston Pilon (1925-1945), Les Fusiliers du
Mont-Royal (in English) |
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Database
of Pilons and Pillons soldiers of France who died on the battlefields
of the Great War (1914-1919) (in French only) |
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Pilons in
Academia, Theses written by Pilons (in English) |
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Joseph
Germain Pilon
(1919-1944),
RCNVR (in English) |
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François
Roland Pilon
(1916-1943),
RCAF (in English) |
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Léon
Pilon
(1854-1885),
Nile River Voyageur (in English) |
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Emile
Clarence Pilon (1908-1945), Canadian Forestry Corps (in English) |
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A Few Old
Maps to Locate the Pilons in Canada and Along the Routes of Their
Travels (in English) |
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Canadian
Pilon Geographic Place Names (in English) |
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U.S. Place
Names - Pilon Ranch and Pilon Mine (in English) |
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"Engagements"
of Pilons
as voyageurs (in French) |
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"Congés
de traite"
granted to Pilons (in French) |
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Notarial
Summaries mentioning
Pilon in New France (in French) |
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Pilon
members of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force (in English) |
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Canadian
Pilon soldiers
who fell during World Wars I and II (in English) |
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Pilons
found in the 1851
Ontario Census for Essex County, Ontario (in English) |
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Pilons
found in the 1861
Ontario Census for Essex County, Ontario (in English) |
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Pilons
found in the 1881
Ontario Census for Essex County, Ontario (in English) |
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Pilons
found in the 1901
Ontario Census for Essex County, Ontario (in English) |
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Mention of
Pilons in early
XIXth century Wisconsin (in English) |
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American
Fur Company Employees 1818-19 (in English) |
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Notes
concerning Voyageurs
along the southern shore of Lake Superior in the first half of the
XIXth
century (in English) |
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The death
of François
Pilon by starvation, 1810, Fort of the Forks, Northwest Territories (in
English and French) |
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The Last
Days of Freedom
of Louis Riel (in English) |
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