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Yolande Allaire Roux

8 articles by Yolande Allaire Roux

  1. Historical Sketch of the Lévrard-Becquet SeigneuryMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 3 min read · The seigneuryFrom the 1672 grant to Romain Becquet to the abolition of 1854: the Lévrards, the Massons ordered out in 1708, the Babys and their manor, and where the names Sainte-Sophie and Sainte-Cécile came from.
  2. Gérard DemersMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 6 min read · Notable peopleFrom his father’s slaughterhouse at Gentilly to Gérard Demers inc. and Demers Express inc.: a year-by-year account of a butcher who became mayor of St-Pierre-les-Becquets at 30, written by his daughter Madeleine.
  3. The CemeteriesMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 5 min read · Fragments of historyFor Yolande Allaire-Roux, cemeteries are genealogies carved in stone: from Pointe Callières to Père Lachaise and Grosse-Ile, then here at home in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, with its 1900 charnel house and Father Gouin’s way of the cross.
  4. The Gouin Parish PriestsMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 5 min read · Fragments of historyTwo parish priests from Baie-du-Febvre: Philippe-Antonio Gouin, who arrived in 1898 and led an era of great progress, and Gratien Gouin, who died suddenly at the foot of the altar at 53. Both descend from Mathurin Gouin.
  5. The Written Word RemainsMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 3 min read · Fragments of historyFrom Charles Z. Garceau's black notebook to the Archambault index of the parish registers, the writings that have kept the memory of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, and a call to sort your own archives.
  6. Romain BecquetMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 2 min read · Fragments of historyA notary from a small village near Rouen, Romain Becquet looked after the settlers of the côte de Beaupré and the île d’Orléans; his greffe, kept at the Archives de Québec, is one of the largest of the seventeenth century.
  7. Thomas-Aimé ChandonnetMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 4 min read · Fragments of historyYoungest of fifteen children, born at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1834, Abbé Chandonnet was an orator, a doctor of theology and third principal of the école normale Laval; from Rome he chose the painters of our church chancel.
  8. Three Houses, One Family: the MéthotsMay 25, 2015 · Yolande Allaire Roux · 4 min read · Fragments of historyThree neighbouring houses at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets and their related occupants: the notary Antoine-Prosper Méthot, the brick house built in 1860 for Dr. Archambault, and the Manoir Baby, which became the Manoir Méthot in 1864.