Locations

Every family tends to migrate here and there for various reasons. Sometimes, they settle in specific areas that best suit their particular needs. The Zastre Family is no different. Below is a list of cities and towns where are branches of our family have settled in Manitoba (and beyond).

Cayer (AKA Guynemer)	Dauphin	Eddystone
Magnet	Roblin	St Ambrose
St Boniface	St Francois Xavier	St Norbert
St Vital	Ste Rose du Lac	Selkirk
Victoria (BC)	Winnipeg

Do you know of another community where our family has settled? Let us know.

did you know?

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.