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- History of the Canadian Bellemares Traditions
- People
- Footnotes
Bellemare ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|l|m|ɑr}}; {{IPA-fr|bɛlmɑʁ}}) is a Norman surname, that means "somebody from Bellemare", name of several hamlets in Normandy (± 20[1][2][3]). It is also one of the most common family names in Mauricie, Quebec. It is a compound of French belle "nice, pretty" and mare "mere, lake, pond", Norman word of Old Norse origin marr "sea", finally borrowed from Norman by French around 1600 as "pond, puddle".[4]History of the Canadian BellemaresThe Bellemares share a common ancestor with the Gélinas: Étienne Gellineau, a {{lang|fr|sargier}}, or maker of serge fabric, from La Salenderie, close to Saintes in France's Saintonge area (now known as Charente-Maritime). Gellineau married France Huguette Robert in Saint-Michel's catholic Church 27 June 1645. He settled the Mauricie area in 1658 and worked for three years as an indentured servant for Pierre Boucher, Governor of Trois-Rivières. Gellineau had three sons: Étienne, Jean-Baptiste and Pierre. Jean-Baptiste eventually took the name Bellemare.[5][6]{{why|date=November 2016}} TraditionsRituals preserved by the Bellemares include the paternal blessing ({{lang-fr|la benédiction paternelle}}). Until the mid-1980s and in some cases even to this day, it has been customary for the children and grandchildren of a Bellemare family unit to ask their patriarch to bless them on New Year's Day. The practice is not exclusive to the Bellemare Family. PeopleNotable people with the name include: - Adélard Bellemare (1871–1933), Canadian politician
- Alex Bellemare (born 1993), Canadian skier from Quebec
- Annie Bellemare (born 1980), Canadian competitive figure skater
- Daniel Bellemare (born 1952), Canadian prosecutor
- Daniel Bellemare (figure skater) (born 1980), Canadian figure skater
- Diane Bellemare (born 1949), Canadian economist and politician from Quebec
- Dionel Bellemare (1880–1950), Canadian politician from Quebec
- Eugène Bellemare (born 1932), Canadian politician
- Gilles Bellemare (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Gilles Bellemare (composer) (born 1952), Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator
- Gilles Bellemare (politician) (1932–1980), member of the National Assembly of Quebec
- Jonathan Bellemare (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kwena Bellemare-Boivin, Canadian film actress
- Marc Bellemare (born 1956), Canadian lawyer and politician from Quebec
- Maurice Bellemare (1912–1989), Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada
- Michel Bellemare (born 1967), member of the City Council in Ottawa, Canada from 1994 to 2010
- Pierre Bellemare (1929-2018), French writer, novelist, radio personality, television presenter, TV producer, and director
- Pierre-Édouard Bellemare (born 1985), French ice hockey right winger
- Rose-Eliandre Bellemare (born 1989), French artistic gymnast
- Rykko Bellemare, Canadian film actor
- Sylvain Bellemare (born 1968), Canadian sound editor and sound designer
- Guillaume Bellemare (born 1988), more commonly known as Buxx Belmar/ Dirty Buxx Belmar who is a famous French-Canadian wrestler from Montréal, Quebec currently holding the IWS Championship belt.
Footnotes1. ^Beaurepaire (Charles de), Laporte (dom Jean), Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime, Paris, 1982-1984, p. 69
2. ^Poret de Blosseville (Ernest), Dictionnaire topographique du département de l'Eure, Paris, 1877.
3. ^Hippeau (Célestin), Dictionnaire topographique du département du Calvados, Paris, 1883
4. ^CNRTL site : Etymology of mare (French)
5. ^Généalogie - Famille Jean-Louis Gélinas {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117080946/http://municipalite.yamachiche.qc.ca/toponymie/genealogie/chronique_3_famille_jl_gelinas.html |date=January 17, 2008 }}
6. ^Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada, 1997
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