[blended.FTW] Came to Canada from Solesme, in the district of La Fleche, with one hundred men recruited by Maisonneuve as carpenters and land clearers in 1653. At the end of his five year contract he decided to stay in Canada and start a family. In addition to working as a carpenter for Mathieu Ranuyer at Montreal, the for Pierre Boucher at Varennes, Chauvin also farmed on the Ile-aux-Foins. Near the end of his life, he accepted a land grant from the Sulpiciens and returned to montreal, dying there at the beginning of August 1699.