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Old Artibise
My grandfather, owning a car in it’s early years, was a popular man. He got the job of driving the bishop from parish to parish on his visits from the diocese of Pembroke. That was quite an honor then. What got to be more of a windfall, was driving the members of parliament around. When
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1931
That year Grandpa bought a new Buick. My father Emile was seventeen and the first child to learn how to drive. It was decided to go on a trip to Saskatoon and visit my great grandfather (Jérémie) who had moved there to be close to his two daughters that had purchased large farms there.The Trans-Canada
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Grandpa Eugène (2)
I remember my grandpa was a very quiet, gentle person who very seldom raised his voice to any of us. He liked to rock and sing to his grandchildren or teach them how to play cards. He also liked to drink, bought gin by the case but I cannot recall ever seeing him ever overdoing
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Grandmother Lévina
From notes by aunt Lilian…..My mother was very ambitious for her family and a very charitable person She raised her family of four plus five or six orphans from what was then called the Shelter. An incident that I never forgot was during the influenza epidemic of 1917-1918. Mother heard that Mrs Félix St-Pierre was
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Les frères Hurtubise
Les frères Hurtubise étaient aventuriers. A la ferme, ils avaient réussi à accrocher des cordages entre les bâtiments de la ferme pour y faire des acrobaties et de la marche (aérienne). C’était, rappelons-nous, l’époque de l’illustre Blondin qui avait traversé les Chutes Niagara sur un fil de métal. Alexandre mettra à profit les habiletés acquises
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Grandpa Eugène
My grandfather, Eugène, was born April 9, 1877 in Gatineau Hills (Sainte-Cécile-de-Masham) one of 8 children. He had four sisters Malvina, Agnès, Dora and Joséphine and 3 brothers, Henry, Joseph and Alexandre. His father Jérémie had gone to Corbeil (near North Bay) as a worker on the Canadian National Railroad. When the railroad got to