In 1656, when our ancestor Pierre Micheau went on board of the ship LA FORTUNE in the port of La Rochelle, he did not suspect that in this same port lived at this time a 5 year old child, Marie Ancelin, who was going to become his wife 11 years later in Nouvelle-France ...
 
 

  Amongst the members of the Michaud family, there was during nineteenth century a Samson quebecois. David Michaud, born at Kamouraska on July 15, 1856, was the son of Pierre Michaud and Josephte Michaud.  Initially farmer like his father, military life attracted him so, in 1878, he enroled in the army and was garrisoned in the Citadelle of Québec.  Very tall, he had an Herculean strength.  In 1883, David gave himself up to the professional and stage athletics.  On March 17, 1885, he faced the famous Louis Cyr in Québec at the time of the American championship.  Cyr was 23 years old and Michaud 29.  Cyr won the competition having lift up 390 pounds more on the total.  Nevertheless, David made an impressive performance lifting up 228 pounds with his right arm only and lifting up 3200 pounds on the benchpress.

    Traveling through all the province, David Michaud was above all famous for his feats of strength : he crushed stones with his fist and he made break a large piece of stone on his chest.  From 1890 to 1905, no trace was ever found of the strong man.  In August 1905, the daily newspaper Le Soleil informed its readers that "Bébé Michaud" (so named "Michaud Baby") had just died at Vancouver.  This death, remained obscure, had brought down David at the age of 49.
 

  The cathedral "Marie Reine du Monde" of Montréal built between the years 1868 and 1894, was the work of three architects, Victor Bourgeau (1809-1888), Joseph Michaud (1822-1902) and a certain architect named Leprohon.  Born on April 1st, 1922 at Kamouraska, Joseph Michaud was the son of Joseph Michaud and Charlotte Michaud.  Astronomer, physicist, geologist, numismatist, sculptor, the architect Joseph Michaud made the plans and directed work of more than one hundred churches and three hundred religious buildings.
 
 

  Our large Family and the province of New Brunswick can be proud of one of theirs in the person of Joseph-Énoïl Michaud, lawyer-notary, judge and politician.  Born at Saint-Antonin, in the Rivière-du-Loup county, on September 26, 1888, he was elected during the general elections of 1935 and was sworn in Minister of Fisheries in the King cabinet.  Re-elected during the general election of 1940 after his promotion as member of the King Council in 1935, he will be Minister of Transports from 1942 to 1945.  Appointed judge in 1945, he is named head magistrate of the Supreme Court of his province on April 19 of the same year, job that he will hold until his retirement in 1963.  He deceased at Edmundston, New Brunswick, on May 23, 1967.
 
 

  An uncommon fact, a marriage at Saint-André-de-Kamouraska between:
 
 

Mariage represented only by Michauds.  Achille, his father and his mother are Michauds like his grandfather and his grandmother.  They are of the 7th and 8th generation of Pierre Micheau.