Today's tombstone is that of my great grandparents, Major Joseph Carmel Lavoie and Alice Bard, along with two of their children, Paul-Emile Lavoie and Marie-Anna Lavoie. Their grave is located in the St. Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery in St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
An interesting thing about this tombstone is that it reveals two relatives I didn't know existed. Paul-Emile and Marie-Anna both died in the 1930s, when they were in their 20s. They are my dad's aunt and uncle, but he didn't know they existed because they died before he was born.
Baptism - Louis Jacques Lavoie
ReplyDeleteNotre-Dame-du-Chemin Québec
Le vingt-septième jour de septembre de lan mil neuf cent seize, Nous, soussigné, prêtre de la Compagnie de Jésus, avons baptisé Louis Jacques, né ce jour, fils légitime de Joseph Lavoie, militaire, et de Alice Bard, de cette paroisse. Le parrain a été Paul-Émile Lavoie, frère de l'enfant, et la marraine, Jeanne Lavoie, soeur de l'enfant, de cette paroisse, qui, ainsi que le père, ont signé avec nous. Lecture faite.
(ont signé): Jeanne Lavoie, Paul-Émile Lavoie, J Lavoie.
J. Waddel, S.J.
Marriage of Joseph Lavoie and Alice Bard
ReplyDeleteQuebec, Basilique Notre-Dame, 14 October 1902
Joseph Lavoie
son of Jean-Baptiste Lavoie and Philomène Gagné, from Bic
Alice Bard
daughter of Onésime Bard and Marie Louise Pelletier, from St-Aubert parish, Quebec
married by "prêtre de la Compagnie de Jésus de la Congrégation de la Haute Ville de Québec, dans la Chapelle de la dite Congrégation"
Witnesses: Alphonse Lapointe, soldier, witness for he groom; Placide Ménard, soldier, witness for the bride.
Signatures: Alice Bard, J.C. Lavoie, P. Ménard, A. Lapointe. AnG. Girard, s.j.