Gabrial and his family immigrated to Minnesota in 1879. On the 6th of Jun 1900 in Taylor township, Greene Co., Missouri census, he said that he and Celina immigrated in 1877. Gabrial and his sister were lured to S.D. to recieve free land through the Homestead Act. The first record we have of Gabrial outside of Quebec is when he appears as a landowner in Andover, S.D. of Day County in 1883 with his brother Frank and his wife's brothers, Louis Philippe Blanchette & Joseph Blanchette, along with the Guimont family who married into the Blanchettes. During the winter of 1882/83 and the winter of 1883/84 he went back to Minnesota. In March of 1884 he established actual residence. His first house was made of sod and measured 8x10, second house was 16x18 one and a half story. He built a sod barn which was 17x28 feet and he dug a well. In 1883 he broke 20 acres and raised 8 acres of wheat and in 1884 he raised 400 bushels of wheat on the whole 20 acres along with 200 bushels of corn on the other 20 acres. In 1885 he grew 645 bushels of wheat. In 1886 he grew 770 bushels of wheat and in 1887 he grew 680 bushels of wheat and 600 bushels of corn. In 1888 he grew 1350 bushels of corn and 410 bushels of wheat. In 1889 papers show that he owned 4 horses, 1 cow, 3 shoats/pigs, 2 plows, wagon, seeder drag, fan mill along with beds, stove, dishes, chairs, table and cupboard since spring of 1884. In June 1896, Joseph and Celina (Morneau) Blanchett set aside one acre of land to be used as the site for School District #159. There were as many as 32 students in the one room. Gabrial moved with his family to White Church Missouri, Howell County, Sisson Twsp., sometime around 1896 . He was trying to farm in a a very rocky area which proved to be a fruitless endever. In June of 1900 they were in Greene Co., Taylor Twsp., Missouri and Gabe was working as a woodchopper. He next appears in MN. in1908. He was a farmer at 3959 Bryant Ave. No in Minneapolis and also a night watchman at Atlantic Elevator. He spent the last four years of his life in the American Rest Home at 1702 Elliott Ave. in Minneapolis.