The Harts are first at least in the sense of "premier, most prominent." Aaron Hart arrived in Montreal with the British invasion armies, stayed on at Trois-Rivières, became a merchant and a seigneur, and founded a dynasty that gave Canada, among other things, the first Jews elected to a Canadian legislature, and the NHL's Hart Trophy. Aaron aspired to found a great family, and did in ways he may not have intended. One source reports his son Moses had a hundred children, four of them legitimate.
Full disclosure: Denis Vaugeois once gave me an American "Sacawegea" silver dollar. On the coin, Sacawegea, famous for guiding Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, is shown with a papoose on her back, and there is the tiny head of her son by the voyageur Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau. The only Quebeçois on the American currency, he told me. I have it still somewhere.
