{"id":725,"date":"2017-07-04T21:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:36:36","slug":"family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/family-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Family and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-qc0n9-09b6efc18d7ab49cfadd56497bea6947\">\n.avia-section.av-qc0n9-09b6efc18d7ab49cfadd56497bea6947{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-1500x630.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-qc0n9-09b6efc18d7ab49cfadd56497bea6947 main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-30 av-height-percent  container_wrap sidebar_right'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch' data-av_minimum_height_pc='30' data-av_min_height_opt='percent'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-725'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-725'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kgvkd-d1461fb537faef39dd3ded510e46ecfa\">\n.flex_column.av-kgvkd-d1461fb537faef39dd3ded510e46ecfa{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-kgvkd-d1461fb537faef39dd3ded510e46ecfa av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9{\npadding-bottom:10px;\nfont-size:36px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:36px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:14px;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-9pc6d-836bfaf8651c0b34598c0cdd46acc3b9 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote classic-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-inherit-size'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Family and Friends<\/h3><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>10 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-9roa5-ffe3d986b3c8dce1ec3c9abaa3eb4756 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock image-border'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In contrast to Paul Emile, who grew up with at least four dozen or more aunts, uncles, and cousins in his St Laurent neighborhood\u2014plus many more in the city and the countryside\u2014we knew the Pepin family in Montreal only by photos, letters and the occasional visit. I just barely remember hearing our father speaking with his mother by phone in French up until her death in 1959 when I was 9 years old.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-224x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-224x343.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-977x1500.jpg 977w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-459x705.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1-450x691.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1930_1.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Aunt Lucienne was very close in age to Paul Emile\u2014the second in the family of five surviving children of Albert and Blanche Pepin\u2014and she remained close to him all of his life. We know that she and our Tante Aline also provided him family support at some critical junctures. She entered the convent to become a Holy Cross teaching sister in 1930 at the age of 18, taking her final vows in 1937. Her religious name was Soeur Marie de Sainte-Am\u00e9lie and her life of service is recorded in the order\u2019s Salle de l\u2019H\u00e9ritage [pdf].<\/p>\n<p>She taught girls at upper levels 7-13 and learned English well enough to read and write quite well. We received many letters in both languages from her over many years. By 1962 she took on administrative duties at different school and college locations until she retired in 1990.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-331x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-331x343.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-768x796.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-680x705.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962-450x467.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Lucienne_1962.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>Kenneth and I visited her in 1978 and had a wonderful\u00a0 conversation with her. She was a vibrant host and made us feel that she\u2019d known us all of our lives. After our father died in 1982 she continued to write our mother for several years. She was pleased to see Rita and Tony at their visit in 1991, soon after their marriage, but they report she was likely suffering from dementia at that point. She died in July of 1995 at age 83 and is buried in the sisters\u2019 section at the Pavillon St Joseph, not far from our father\u2019s gravesite in the Saint Laurent cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>We have many photos of Aunt Lucienne but one of my favorites is of her with her upper-level students Nominingue in the period of years 1948-1958. I suspect she was a terrific teacher. Her handwriting was just about the most beautiful I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-730 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-270x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-270x343.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-768x976.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-1180x1500.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-555x705.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding-450x572.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ErnestMargueriteWedding.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>The third child in the family was Ernest, who married our Aunt Marguerite in 1940. Their wedding photo is to the left. We heard a good\u00a0 deal about their children Lise, Jacques, Jean-Guy and Francine, whom we have visited with in both Canada and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>We remember our father telling us that Uncle Ernest had worked as a street car conductor in Montr\u00e9al at one time. He died too young at 56 years of age in 1972, the year our parents and the three youngest in our own family moved up to Lake Falls in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-272x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-272x343.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-768x969.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-1188x1500.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-559x705.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964-450x568.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marguerite_1964.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Aunt Marguerite was the fourth child, who stayed at home to care for family members until she entered the convent of the Sisters of Jeanne d\u2019Arc, where she worked as a librarian and was\u00a0 known by the name Soeur Th\u00e9r\u00e8se d\u2019Avila. She died after a long illness of unspecified cancer in 1986 at age 67 and is buried in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest was Aunt Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, whose first husband died very young\u2014at age 41 in 1960. Therese worked as a librarian to support her surviving 5 children\u2014Pierre, Andre, Pauline, Jean-Claude, Michel\u2014while Aunt Marguerite helped with the children. She married a second time in 1963 and we remember Uncle Henri from our visit to the Montreal Expo in 1967, the first and only visit all of us together as a family made to Canada.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Aunt Th\u00e9r\u00e8se certainly made an impression on all of us children with her flamboyant welcome and her brilliant laugh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t be sure exactly what our father\u2019s siblings thought about their youngest sister. Whereas most of them seemed relatively subdued, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was always the most outspoken in the room\u2014downright brash, but with a deeply sensitive, joyous warmth that was singular. It was hard to believe she could be so irrepressible given that her first husband, a studious schoolteacher, died young at age 41 and left her with five children to raise in an era where women did not work outside the home. She learned how to work for a living, as well as raise all those children\u2014with the help of our Aunt Marguerite\u2014and later how to care for an increasingly frail second husband.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back I got the chance to visit Tante Th\u00e9r\u00e8se on my own and this time my French was well practiced so I could better understand both her stalwart declamations as well as the subtler feelings she expressed.<\/p>\n<p>I remember her insisting that I take her bedroom to sleep in while she went to a smaller bedroom in the family home at 950 LaPointe. She liked to work puzzles late into the night\u2014cheering herself on much like teenagers these days play video games\u2014and she was afraid she\u2019d keep me awake if I wasn\u2019t sleeping in a room far away from the living room. The next day she helped me identify many of Daddy\u2019s photos from long ago.<\/p>\n<p>When I looked at some notes on the family that Aunt Lucienne had sent to my mother about the Pepin family, I saw that Lucienne had added a note to the listing of her mother, Blanche Labelle\u2019s many sisters: \u201cAll of them were very funny.\u201d Aha, now we know where Th\u00e9r\u00e8se\u2014and a couple of our own siblings among Paul Emile\u2019s children\u2014 got their high spirits.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_750\" style=\"width: 689px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-image-750 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-679x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-679x343.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-1500x758.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-705x356.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2-450x227.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Collie2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a more recent trip, Therese\u2019s children shared with me additional photos of her collie IQOU\u00c9 (pronounced I-COU-\u00c9)\u2014I suspect the name is one of those prize-winning puzzle words!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_740\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-image-740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistory.bluenotegarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-514x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-514x343.jpg 514w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-1500x1001.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-705x471.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TanteTherese.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo is my favorite.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Tante Th\u00e9r\u00e8se lived far longer than any of her siblings\u2014until age 88 in 2009. I like to think it might be because of that laugh.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our father had many photos that he carried around with him for all of his life. It is possible that quite a few of them are of family members, but almost none are identified so I am collecting these together into the one category of family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, of course, many of them are probably both friends and family at the same time. The relationships can be complicated. For instance, the sisters Charbonneau were children of Henri Charbonneau in Ferme Neuve, who was also related to the Labelles, and one of them married a member of the Bigras family\u2014Blanche Ida Bigras was the wife of Uncle Edouard, Albert\u2019s brother, and Marguerite Charbonneau later married into the Bigras family as well. A Papin great aunt married into the Meloche family and then one of the next generation married into the family as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_736\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"wp-image-736 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-521x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-521x343.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-705x464.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Charbonneau_Therese_Aline-1-450x296.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Aunt Th\u00e9r\u00e8se is pictured here at left, possibly in St Laurent with two of the Charbonneau sisters and Tante (great aunt) Aline at far right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-735 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-236x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-236x343.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-768x1118.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-1030x1500.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-484x705.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934-450x655.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin-Marie-Rose-Champagne_1934.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>The photo of one cousin dated on the front with \u201cSept 1934\u201d \u00a0is identified in our father\u2019s handwriting on the back as \u201cMlle M. R. Champagne, cousine Montr\u00e9al 23\/5\/36.\u201d Lucienne provides corroborating information on her listing of the Labelles that this cousin is Marie-Rose Champagne, daughter of Grandmother Blanche\u2019s sister, Rosa Labelle, who married P. J. Champagne. Like Marie-Rose, there are quite a number of photos of some very attractive young women, sometimes in pretty spiffy vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, we found a group photo of many of the cousins with Paul Emile in what was likely a pretty typical gathering on Sundays and holiday celebrations when many of them were children of close to the same age. At this point, he is still the tallest but in later years his younger cousins are often taller. The photo has obviously traveled hard and will need a lot of restoration work:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-731 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-484x343.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-1500x1064.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-260x185.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-705x500.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pepin_Family_1923-450x319.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, photos feature hunting and camping trips, for the most part, with the occasional group assembled in the yard of a home or farm. It may seem excessive to include all of these in this chapter, but if they were worth carrying around all these years perhaps there is also a chance that others may recognize some of the principals, sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>[Slideshow coming.]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pepin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluenotegarden.com\/familyhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}