Pierre Micheau decides to move once again in pursuit of wider spaces, probably, among other things, to allow his sons to be able to establish themselves on their own farms;  his departure from Rivière-des-Trois-Saumons is fixed approximately at the snow runoff of 1692.  He moves to Kamouraska, and this time it is for good.  He is now 55 years old on June 30, 1695 when he held official title of 12 arpents of frontal property on the river from Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye, seigneur of Kamouraska.  This was large enough to satisfy the most numerous and needy of families.  It is possible that they already had lived on this land for a few years.  The Michaud family was not afraid to take on new challenges but Kamouraska would mark their final stand.
 

    Pierre was striken with cancer of the mouth, probably caused by a lifetime of pipe smoking.  In 1701, Pierre and Marie made their will, with the consent of their children.  The assets would go to the surveyor of the two of them.  One can place the death of Pierre between the 28th of May and the 15th of September 1702.  He was sixty-five years old and left his wife and nine children.  The widow Marie Ancelin, on October 18, 1704, obviously with her children in mind, convinced the seigneur Louis-Aubert de Forillon to make a small addition to her land.  He generously added 8 arpents of width to the 12 already existing.  An inventory of her possessions was not made until April 20, 1724.  Nine days later, Marie gave her assets to her son, Joseph, and placed herself in his care.  She died and was buried at Kamouraska on April 18, 1729.
 

    Pierre and Marie had 10 children : 6 boys, 4 girls of wich one died from the craddle.  Pierre (the elder one), Jean-Baptiste, Joseph, Pierre (the younger), Louis and François all married; Marie-Anne, Élisabeth and Madeleine joined themselves to the families Boucher, Levasseur and Lebel.  In 1750, the descendants of Pierre Micheau represented more than half of the population of the place.
 
 

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