{"id":37407,"date":"2025-04-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=37407"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:00:00","slug":"from-sonvilier-to-canada-to-illinois-a-remarkable-swiss-emigration-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=37407","title":{"rendered":"From Sonvilier to Canada to Illinois: A Remarkable Swiss Emigration Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s) : Jeanette Bowman Borich<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarsarchive.byu.edu\/sahs_review\/vol61\/iss1\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/scholarsarchive.byu.edu\/sahs_review\/vol61\/iss1\/6<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Author and genealogist Laurence Overmire stated, \u201cHistory remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.\u201d His words resonate as we consider the 1821 Swiss emigration to the Red River Settlement (in today\u2019s Manitoba, Canada) followed by their subsequent emigration to the Galena, Illinois, area. Three recently published books on the history of Galena\u2019s earliest days as a city make no mention of the Swiss Red River families as early pioneers. A fourth book, Le Canada et les Suisses by E. H. Bovay, also relatively recently written, tells a different story. Genealogical research about one\u2019s ancestors and an examination of related historical resources can help us better understand our past and who we are as a people. This article will focus upon Swiss-born \u00c9milie Brandt and Abram Marchand\u2019s journeys as two of the earliest pioneers of the Galena, Illinois, area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Jeanette Bowman Borich Source : https:\/\/scholarsarchive.byu.edu\/sahs_review\/vol61\/iss1\/6 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[306,7,76,137,9,478,438],"class_list":["post-37407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-306","tag-article","tag-canada","tag-emigration","tag-english-language","tag-swiss","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}