Jacques Archambault was a French colonist in Montreal

Montreal

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. He was born in Dompierre-sur-Mer

Dompierre-sur-Mer

Dompierre-sur-Mer is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.-Population:-Personalities:*Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy...

, where he was baptized.

Archambault married (around 1629) Françoise Tourault, with whom he had many children. All Archambaults (and descendants) now living in North America are his descendants, as no other Archambault ever emigrated from France.

A plate in the back of the Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Pointe-à-Callière Museum

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 of Montreal commemorates his digging the first water well, near what is now known as Place-d'Armes

Place-d'Armes (Montreal Metro)

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, on October 11, 1658, upon request by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve.