2023-08-24 04:00:00
Ryan Gosling currently embodies, on half of the big screens of the planet, the role of Ken, the companion of Barbie.
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After winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor in Motion Picture La La Land in 2017, his blistering Hollywood career led him to the feet of the iconic Mattel doll in the box office summer movie.
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His Ontario roots
Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on November 12, 1980 in London, Ontario. Although raised in a Mormon and English-speaking family in Cornwall, the handsome Ken has multiple French-speaking origins, both on the maternal side and on the paternal side. In fact, he has a Franco-Ontarian grandmother and three great-grandmothers.
His father, Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman, was the son of Marie Ivette Brown (1926-1997) and the grandson of Marie Anne Bélair (1907-1988) and Joseph Brown (1903-?), a Franco- Ontario, originally from Glengarry, a French-speaking stronghold located east of Ottawa, near the Quebec border, where the majority still speak the language of the Bélairs of America.
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In Ontario since the mid-19th century, the Bélairs, known as Robidou, came from Vaudreuil. The ancestor, André Robido (1640-1678), was from Burgos, Spain.
The Robidou have an impressive history, having spread to the four corners of the continent. Joseph (1783-1868) founded Saint Joseph in Missouri and named the famous Roche-Jaune (Yellowstone) park in Wyoming. His brother Antoine (1794-1860), born in St. Louis, was the first mayor of Santa Fe; he spoke French, English and Spanish. And his other brother Louis (1796-1868) founded Rubidoux and Riverside, California. The Robidoux: one of the great families of the diaspora, along with the Trudeaus and the Thérouxs, which we will talk about one day.
Joseph Brown was the son of Rosalie Proulx (1864-1930), whose great-grandparents – Jean-Jacques Robinson and Marie Trottier, of the parish of Saint-André d’Argenteuil – were black. An astonishing story long passed under the magnifying glass of many genealogists.
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Ryan’s mother
Donna Wilson, Ryan’s mother, has two French-speaking grandmothers: Victoria Dextras (1899-1986) and Rose-Emma Lalonde (1901-1990).
Victoria was the daughter of Joseph Dextras (1868-1961) and Élizabeth Quenneville (1871-1959), the eldest of a family of 16 children from Saint-Anicet. The couple are resting in peace at La Nativite Cemetery in Cornwall.
The ancestor, Pierre Destroches, known as Béziers (1732-1800), was a grenadier in the Béarn regiment during the Seven Years’ War. He came from Béziers, in the south of France. From Destroches, the name drifted over the generations to become Dextras.
Elizabeth Quenneville and Joseph Dextras, Ryan Gosling’s maternal great-grandparents, rest in peace in a cemetery in Cornwall. Photo Jacques Noel
Rose-Emma Lalonde (1901-1990) was the daughter of Alexandre Lalonde (1863-1931) and Catherine Harriet Piché (1877-1962) as well as the granddaughter of Alexandre Édouard Lalonde, born in Saint-Raphaël, Glengarry , Upper Canada, in 1817.
For more than two centuries, Ryan Gosling’s family has had deep roots in French-speaking Ontario, on the Quebec border.
BELAIR LINE OF RYAN GOSLING
I. GOSLING, Thomas Ray
WILSON, Donna
II. GOSLING, George Bigelow (1926-1998)
BROWN, Marie Ivette (1926-1997)
Married 14 January 1944, Toronto, Ontario
III. BROWN, Joseph (1903-?)
BÉLAIR, Marie Anne (1907-1988)
Mr. June 1, 1925, Alexandra, Sacred Heart, Glengarry, Ontario
IV. BÉLAIR, Jules (1873-?)
SÉGUIN, Mathilda (1876-1957)
m. 28 avril 1898, Hawksbury, Prescott, Ontario
V. BÉLAIRE, Olivier Levi (1834-1891)
ROCHON, Marie-Anne (1842-?)
m. 10 January 1858, L’Orignal, Prescott, Ontario
VI. BÉLAIRE called ROBIDOU, Olivier (1785-?)
BALTHAZAR dit BELLEVILLE, Marguerite (1790-1871)
Mr. January 7, 1812, Vaudreuil
VII. ROBIDOU, Etienne (1752-1837)
DION, Marie-Thérèse (1760-1787)
Mr. October 20, 1777, Vaudreuil
VIII. ROBIDOU, Etienne (1724-1801)
CLEMENT, Catherine (1726 -1787)
Mr. February 4, 1743, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
IX. ROBIDOU, Etienne (1699-1723)
LAROCHE, Marie-Anne (1702-?)
Mr. November 24, 1721, Longueuil
X. ROBIDOU, Guillaume (1675-1754)
GUERIN, Marie-Françoise (1680-1757)
Mr. June 11, 1697, Montreal
XI. ROBIDO, André called the Spaniard (1640?-1678)
LEDUC-DENOTTE, Jeanne (1647-1701)
Mr. June 7, 1667, Notre-Dame-de-Québec
XII. ROBIDO, Manuel (1612-1618)
FROM NAPLES OF ALAVA, Catalina (1614-1667)
Burgos, Spain
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