Bernier, Julien. - Born in Washington territory; died Dec. 1st in Lewis County, aged 67 years. The first Bernier to come to Washington was one of the French Canadians brought here by the Northwest Fur Company in 1811. In 1819 he had a son born at Spokane House, who was the first white child born in Oregon, Washington or British Columbia - Marcel Isadore Bernier. The Bernier family settled in Lewis County about seventy years ago. When Michael T. Simmons and the other first American settlers came along in 1845, Marcel Bernier showed them the way to Puget Sound.
Source: Prosch, Thomas W. "The Pioneer Dead of 1912." The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume 4, No. 1 (January 1913), p. 42.
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