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Jocelyne Lafond

17 articles by Jocelyne Lafond

  1. The Mill That Became a WaterworksApril 9, 2017 · Jocelyne Lafond · 8 min read · WaterworksFrom lot 419 in the fifth rang, the Moulin des Sources passed from Frédéric Boulanger to the Barabés, who built a waterworks in 1903; the sawmill ran until 1961 and the spring still supplies users.
  2. The Oldest House in the SeigneuryMarch 23, 2017 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · Houses and other buildingsA stone house on lot 120, built between the 1772 grant to Jean-Baptiste Lafond and the 1793 inventory that describes it; sold, abandoned, then restored after 1971.
  3. seriesThe Tomaterie (Tomato Cannery)June 1, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 2 min read · The tomato industryA cannery founded in 1899 by eight parish notables on a leased lot on the route Lelaidier; the plant changed hands again and again until 1956, when Gérard Demers Inc. turned it into a warehouse.
  4. seriesJean-Baptiste LelaidierMay 31, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 4 min read · The tomato industryBorn at Créances in Normandy in 1818, he came to Canada in 1848 and settled at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, married Liliose Baril in 1852, grew melons and then tomatoes, and died in 1903 after seeing the tomato cannery built.
  5. seriesThe Tomato: Its HistoryMay 31, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 4 min read · The tomato industryFrom Peru to Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets: four centuries of mistrust of the tomato, held poisonous by John Gerard and merely ornamental by Olivier de Serres, before it reached Canada in the 1850s.
  6. seriesA Tomato Worker, Cécile Spénard-PoissonMay 26, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · The tomato industryCécile Spénard-Poisson, aged 92, recalls in January 2013 her work as a peeler at the Saint-Pierre tomato cannery: pay by the pail, the autoclaves, and days from seven in the morning to six at night.
  7. What they drank, under the French regime.May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 4 min read · Ways of lifeBeer, cider, wine, bouillon, spruce beer and guildive: what the settlers of New France drank, as set out in Benjamin Sulte’s Mélanges historiques.
  8. Cercle des fermières (rural women’s association)May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · AssociationsFounded in 1920 with 29 members at the request of Father Gladu, the Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets circle numbered 96 in 1949: its executive, its Saturday meetings and its annual exhibition.
  9. Domaine de LapéradeMay 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 6 min read · The seigneuryIn 1844, deep in financial trouble, François Baby had Pierre-Louis Morin lay out seventeen arpents as 99 building lots; in nine years only a dozen were granted.
  10. TimberMay 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 2 min read · Natural resources and industryNapoleon’s 1806 blockade turned England toward Canadian timber: in the seigneurie of Lévrard-Becquet, sawmills on the rivière aux Orignaux, local dealers, and a contract dated 1830.
  11. The Mill on Lot 178May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 2 min read · MillsThe chain of owners of the flour mill on the Rivière-aux-Orignaux, from Landry Lafond’s sale in 1866 to the fire of 1957-58; the municipality bought the land back in 1970.
  12. The Mill on Lot 190May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · MillsLot 190, landlocked among the farms, carried a sawmill by 1871 and later a shingle mill; the Society follows its owners, from the Barabé brothers to Jacques Delisle.
  13. The mill on lot 343May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 6 min read · MillsThe flour mill on lot 343, on the Rivière-aux-Orignaux, traced through notarial acts from Télesphore Jacques before 1871 to its closing in 1948 and the tax sale of 1970.
  14. The Manoir SiteMay 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 10 min read · The seigneuryThe land granted in 1722 to Joseph Charais, and the chain of owners that followed: the notarial record places the building of the Manoir Baby-Méthot between 1817 and 1822, by François Baby the younger.
  15. The SchoolmistressesMay 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · SchoolteachersTwo deeds of the notary Gamelin Gaucher: in 1830 Jacques Raimon Baby had trustees appointed to establish parish schools; in 1832 Marguerite Trottier agreed to teach 36 to 40 pupils in Laurent Pepin’s house.
  16. Iron minesMay 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 3 min read · Natural resources and industryIn 1874 Georges Benson Hall bought the iron-mining rights over three lots at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, at four cents a barrel; no blast furnace was ever built there and the rights lapsed from the 1890s.
  17. Not an Easy Thing, Being a Seigneur…May 25, 2015 · Jocelyne Lafond · 5 min read · The seigneuryThe mill Louis Lévrard had built in 1717 on lot 1 of the seigneury brought him a complaint from Massicot and Carignan, intendant Bégon’s ruling and, with no inhabitants keeping hearth and home, over 15,000 livres lost.