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Désiré-Olivier Bourbeau, a man of Saint-Pierre-les-BecquetsBorn 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.
Carried off by Abenakis!On 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.
Gérard DemersFrom 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.