St-Timoté, Québec, Mémère's Home Town!

Berthe (Théoret), Pépère's wife was born in St-Timoté, Québec, which is 80 KMs south of Montreal.

Our first stop was to meet some of the children of Mémère's best friend, Madame Léger.

The 3 Léger kids that we met are now all married and even retired. You can see their family picture from when they were kids to the left. The Mother in the picture, was Mémère's best friend! An interesting side note, one of the girls in the picture, with whom we spent the afternoon is called Colombe, and is about the same age as Ma tante Colombe. How many Colombe's do you know? It would seem to me that they were writting letters back and forth...


Marthe
Marthe in her garden.		 Jean
Jean, in the garden behind the house.


Colombe
Colombe, Holding a frog that she caught!		 Jean Marie
Jean Marie, in his field


Colombe and Jean Marie's 100 year old House,
just down the road from where Mémère was born and raised.



And, finally, below you see the house in which Mémère was born, in St-Timoté, PQ.



The inside of Mémère's house!
Check out those colors, not original I think! 		The yard at Mémère's house!


This is the writting of EPHREM THERORT our ancestors. If you look closely beneath his name, you can see Ovila's name, he's the one that Ephrem sold the house to when they moved to Bellevue.



And thus concluded our trip. After 2 days of intense conversation we said our goodbyes to the gang in St-Timoté and headed home towards Ottawa. The trip was wonderful. I had seen it many years ago, as a boy, now as a Man it brought the roots of our family to heart. It enables me to see a greater continuity in our/my family!

To be pioneers in the past 400 years! You left what was known to adventure into the unknown. You went where you thought you had a chance, leaving behind the comfortable, to have room to grow, expand, fulfill yourself and also provide! Its effect however is to cut off one's children from their past. How often going through the genealogy did I see that the parents died in their home town, years after the children moved away! We are not like the Europeans, living in the same house, in the same city for centuries, often in the same professions. We are the sons, and daughter's, of pioneers. Let us expand on our opportunities, yet keep contact, and rediscover our roots and our past.

Click here to see what happened with our ancestors between their arrival in Port Royal and Bellevue


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