Becoming a Citizen: George Pleau

Discovering how my great-great grandfather George Pleau became a citizen was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle from different clues in records, historical facts, a newspaper article and one key find via FamilySearch Full Text Search. Below seems to be the basics of how George (and Emma, by virtue of their marriage) became a United States citizen: Sometime between 1868 and 1869, George and Emma immigrated from Quebec to Rochester, NY. How did they immigrate? I believe I found a major clue from a later newspaper article. On June 23, 1874, George and his family traveled with a delegation from the French-Canadian Saint John Baptiste Benevolent Society and the pastor of their church (Our Lady of Victory). The article detailed how the delegation travelled: from Charlotte (the northernmost section of Rochester along the Genesee River and Lake Ontario), across Lake Ontario and to Port Hope, Ontario. From Port Hope they took the railroad to Montreal. What a long journey between Montreal,…