Jean Guyon

Jean Guyon, du Buisson
Born	September 18, 1592 Tourouvre, France
Died	May 30, 1663 (aged 70) Beauport, New France
Occupation	mason, colonist
Spouse(s)	Mathurine Robin
Children	Jean Guyon du Buisson (junior) and 9 others

Jean Guyon du Buisson (September 18, 1592 – May 30, 1663) was the patriarch of "one of the earliest French families to settle in (Nouvelle France), one of the most numerous in the beginning, one of the most respected and best known."

Guyon made his living as a mason and was regarded as a "master mason of excellent reputation." In 1615, he finished the interior stone staircase of the Saint-Aubin Church.

Guyon was born in the Saint-Aubin Parish in Tourouvre, Orne, France, on September 18, 1592. Guyon and his family (at least eight children) emigrated to North America as part of the Percheron Immigration, a small group of families and some single men from the region of Perche, in the province of Normandy, brought over to New France in 1634 to colonize new areas.

Jean de Lauzon, the Governor of New France, awarded a concession of land to Robert Giffard de Moncel, physician to the colony. Giffard, now Seigneurie of Beauport, recruited Guyon and other tradesmen to the new colony with the offer of 1,000 arpents of land with hunting and fishing rights in exchange for three years of service.

Guyon traveled aboard a convoy of four ships under the command of Charles Duplessis-Bochart and arrived in New France in 1634. Guyon was awarded land in newly established Beauport, one of the oldest European-founded communities in Canada (and now a borough of Quebec City). Under the seigneurial system, he received a rear fief near rivière du Buisson (river of bushes). He attached its name to his own, Guyon du Buisson.

Guyon lived there until he died in 1663. He built a small mill and helped build the parish church of Quebec City and the governor's residence.

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