Zastre Family Chronicles
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Louis Gonzague Zastre, was born in Quebec in 1800, worked for the Hudson Bay Company as a Steersman and married Angelique Parisien in 1833 in St Boniface, MB. They are the roots of our Manitoba family
Isadore Zastre, aged 72, was one of four men who formed the quartette to demonstrate the old Red River Jig at the old-timers ball on Nov 17, 1927 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel
There are at least fourteen Zaste/Zastre family members listed on the cairn in St Norbert, who were interred in the original St Norbert Cemetary, the actual location of which is no longer known
Zaste Island, Manitoba is named for Cpl Philias Zaste, a member of our family who died two months before the end of WWII.