Julianne LeBlanc
Julianne LeBlanc is a bilingual research assistant on Marin Immigration Law's genealogy team. A master's student in History at the University of Ottawa specializing in French Canadian and Acadian history, she previously traced multi-generational family lines as a genealogical and archival researcher at Indigenous Services Canada.
Email: contact@marinimmigrationlaw.ca
Fast facts
- Bilingual in French and English, and at home reading nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec and Acadian parish registers.
- Grew up in New Brunswick and is the team's go-to researcher for files with roots in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada.
- Traced multi-generational family lines through church registers, census returns and civil records as a genealogical and archival researcher at Indigenous Services Canada.
- Master's student in History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in French Canadian and Acadian history.
- Honours BA in History, with a minor in French Studies, from the University of Ottawa, on the Dean's Honour List from 2024 to 2026.
- Recipient of the International Association of Quebec Studies (AIEQ) scholarship in 2024.
About
Julianne LeBlanc
Julianne LeBlanc joined Marin Immigration Law in fall 2026 as a research assistant on the firm's genealogy team. She traces each client's line back to the Canadian-born ancestor, sourcing the baptism, birth, marriage and death records that prove every generation. Having grown up in New Brunswick, she takes on the firm's files with roots in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada, and her French and her training in French Canadian and Acadian history let her work directly in Quebec and Acadian parish registers.
Before joining the firm, Julianne was a genealogical and archival researcher at Indigenous Services Canada, where she traced multi-generational family lines using church registers, census returns and civil records, built chain-of-evidence files to verify historical eligibility, and drafted letters of ancestry. She has also worked as an archives assistant at the Bank of Canada, helping to organize and preserve institutional archives dating back to the 1930s and digitizing historical registers. Julianne holds an Honours BA in History, with a minor in French Studies, from the University of Ottawa, where she is now completing a Master's in History.
Professional experience
- Research Assistant, Marin Immigration Law, 2026 to present
- Archives Assistant, Bank of Canada, 2026
- Second Language Teacher, Statistics Canada, 2024 and 2025 to 2026
- Genealogical and Archival Researcher, Indigenous Services Canada, 2024 to 2025
- Parliamentary Page, House of Commons, 2022 to 2023
Student leadership and awards
- President, Students' Association for the Faculty of Arts (SAFA), University of Ottawa, 2024 to 2026
- Director and Co-Chair of the Oversight Committee, University of Ottawa Students' Union, 2025 to 2026
- Student Government President of the Year Award and Scholarship, 2025
- UOSU Scholarship for Francophone Advocacy, 2024
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