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The parish priests, doctors, schoolteachers, families and associations of the seigneury.

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  1. Family names: Lauzon, Habermaker, MansetApril 26, 2018 · written by Alain Manset · 2 min read · FamiliesThree names and the trades behind them: the lauzon laid flat roofing stones, the Habermacher grew oats, the manset worked a farm holding he did not own. Alain Manset traces his own.
  2. Family Names: Fournier and CloutierMarch 4, 2018 · written by Alain Manset · 3 min read · FamiliesTwo trades behind two surnames common in the region: the fournier fired the village bread oven, the cloutier forged nails one by one. Guillaume Fournier and Zacharie Cloutier open each line.
  3. Carried off by Abenakis!May 27, 2017 · written by Alain Manset · 3 min read · Notable peopleOn 22 May 1707 at Oyster River, New Hampshire, two little girls were carried off by Abenakis to New France. Marie Anne Drew, 11, was baptised there, married Étienne Lafond and founded a lineage.
  4. Cercle des fermières (rural women’s association)May 25, 2015 · written by 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.
  5. Désiré-Olivier Bourbeau, a man of Saint-Pierre-les-BecquetsMay 25, 2015 · written by Alain Manset · 2 min read · Notable peopleBorn at St-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1834, a schoolteacher turned Victoriaville merchant, mayor and then Conservative MP; his 1897 election was annulled, the votes in his favour exceeding the number of electors.
  6. Gérard DemersMay 25, 2015 · written by 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.
  7. Father Joseph BaileyMay 25, 2015 · written by Alain Manset · 2 min read · ClergyBorn at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade in 1819, Joseph Bailey tended the Irish immigrants struck by typhus at Grosse-Île in 1846, then became parish priest of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1855.
  8. Father LouisMay 25, 2015 · written by Jacques Lefebvre · 3 min read · ClergyA Récollet, parish priest of St-Pierre-les-Becquets from 1767 to 1789, Jean Demers built a vast presbytery and a sawmill on the rivière des Orignaux, and finished the church of St-Édouard-de-Gentilly in 1787.
  9. The SchoolmistressesMay 25, 2015 · written by 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.
  10. The physiciansMay 25, 2015 · written by Alain Manset · 4 min read · DoctorsHenry Arnaud, who died at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1743 leaving no trace of a medical practice, and Pierre de Sales Laterrière, travelling physician-apothecary from 1783 to 1788, at odds with Father Demers.

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