Note that a man named Merdieu dit Bourbon left his traces in archival documents in the Saint-Gabriel and Notre-Dame-des-Anges seigneuries, in the first half of the 18th century.

A third thesis assumes that the Bourbon hydronym is derived from the Gallic collective name Borvo or Bormo designating the divinity of thermal springs.

This thesis is based on a writing from the "Bulletin des Recherches Historiques" indicating: "Following the French Revolution, thousands of priests, estimated at more than 20,000, left France, rather than taking an oath to the civil constitution of the clergy.

This information mentioned in the Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, volume 9, 1903 pages 59 and 60, by Father A.-H. Gosselin, tells us that the latter had received information, relevant to this story, from the confessor of one of the silversmith's daughters, who had told him that her father had confessed his identity on his deathbed; the old woman mentioned above all the fact that the collar had been cut off to one of her parents (Louis XVI), because there was a train from above.

Jean-Baptiste Decaraffe, alias Jean-Louis Bourbon, had 12 children, he was buried in Bécancour on March 16, 1813, aged 51 years.

[2] The toponym "Bourbon River" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.