Rendez vous chez Martin!


On the weekend of August 24-25, 2002 I had the pleasure of travelling through the lands my ancestors left a hundred years ago. There were 6 of us in the mini van, on our way to pick up one more. We were entering the area where my Mother spent time as a girl, but was alien to me. This is 3500 Km's from where we grew up in Northern Saskatchewan.

As we drove to the north of Montreal, we were talking, exploring our past, of how this was but one stop in our family's continual colonization of these lands we now call Canada. The focus of this weekend however was the lands that my grand father and grand mother came from. First stop however was to pick up our cousin Martin, that we see on the right!


           


Martin received us with open arms at his house, which you see below. We were given the royal tour of his farm, checking out his animals, including: shetland ponies, geese, chickens and dogs.




With seven of us in the van: my Mother Thérèse, Elaine, Louise and her son Misha, Robert, Martin and I (Marc), made our first quick stop, setting the tone for the rest of the weekend to see the home of one of Canada's past Prime Ministers in St-Lin, Québec.







After a brief stop to see Wilfred Laurier's house, we were stopped at an intersection near the center of St-Esprit. We spotted a mink farm! Being Edmour Gaudet's family as well as being the intrepid travellers that we are, with our characteristic lack of shyness, we stopped in and asked if we could get a tour of their facilities.





After the tour, and away from the overbearing smell of 3000 enclosed minks, we went just a bit farther in the village to look at a couple of houses where Thérèse used to go as a young girl to visit her aunt's.

Tante Marie-Anne (Rocheleau) Tellier's House.
Tante Eva (Rocheleau) St-Jean's House.


We were then off to St-Jacques l'Achigan, Ernest's home town!



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