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Tadoussac has one of the largest natural drydocks, filled with boats in the winter / Une des plus grandes cale sèches naturelles. The Drydock - La Cale Sèche Read Armand Imbeau Contractor and Builder of Goélettes by Daniel Delisle PhD with the precious collaboration of Claudine Imbeau, granddaughter of Armand Imbeau at the bottom of this page Imbeau biography NB We have no photos of Armand Imbeau! Please help! Send to tomfevans@icloud.com Lire Armand Imbeau Entrepreneur et Constructeur de Goélettes par Daniel Delisle PhD avec la précieuse collaboration de Claudine Imbeau, petite fille de Armand Imbeau en bas de cette page Imbeau biography NB Nous n'avons pas de photos d'Armand Imbeau ! S'il vous plaît aider! Envoyer à tomfevans@icloud.com Samuel de Champlain drew this small bay on his map from 1600 Samuel de Champlain a esquissé cette petite entrée sur sa carte de 1600 BEFORE there was a drydock in Tadoussac, there was a lovely small bay with a beach, which filled up and emptied with the tides. This is the oldest photograph I have found which shows part of that bay, about 1900 (colourized) AVANT la cale sèche à Tadoussac, il y avait une belle petite baie avec une plage, qui rempli et vidé avec les marées. C'est la photo la plus ancienne que j'ai trouvé qui montre une partie de cette baie, vers 1900 Painting by Frank Morewood 1930's Painting by Tom Evans 2022 In this aerial photo from 1940's the drydock looks like it is full of water. Photo aérienne environ 1945. La cale sèche semble être plein d'eau. Painting by Thomas Garside from 1930, with the Pilot House and some sheds, probably before the gates were installed by Armand Imbeau in 1932. Peinture de Thomas Garside à partir de 1930, avec le Pilot House et quelques hangars, probablement devant les portes ont été installés par Armand Imbeau en 1932 A good place to repair the boat in the 1930's Un bon endroit pour réparer le bateau dans les années 1930 Imbeau's Drydock The establishment of Imbeau's drydock at Tadoussac in 1932 is a fine example of ingenuity and economy of means from its designer. Taking advantage of the natural features of a small bay with steep rock walls, the doors are attached directly to the rock, at the place where there is a narrow entrance to the bay. It's the tide that does the work. Once the boats are aground in the bay, the doors are closed and the trick is played! Painting by Tom Evans Armand Imbeau revisited a tradition dating back to the birth of New France. Prior to 1630, ships supplying the colony stopped over at Tadoussac where lower-tonnage boats took over to reach Quebec. Before going back to their home port, the ships were refurbished by the village's carpenters and caulkers. Armand Imbeau renouait ainsi avec une tradition remontantaux aux débuts de la Nouvelle-France. Avant 1630, les navires qui ravitaillaient la colonie s'arretaient a Tadoussac. Des embarcations de plus faible tonnage prenaient ensuite le relais jusqu'à Quebec. Avant de rapartir vers leur port d'attache, les navires etaient remis en état par les charpentiers et les calfats du village. Painting by Tom Evans Sketch by Lilybell Rhodes circa 1939 Noroua, a small schooner owned by my father, Lewis Evans, and stored in the drydock in the winter, 1940's Noroua, une petite goélette appartenant à mon père, Lewis Evans, et maintenus en la cale sèche en hiver, 1940 The new boathouse above was built for Arthur Price for his boat the "Empress of Tadoussac". In the winter many goelettes were kept in the drydock, a beautiful sight. Le nouveau hangar à bateaux ci-dessus a été construit pour Arthur Price pour son bateau "Empress of Tadoussac". En hiver, de nombreuses goelettes étaient conservées en cale sèche, une belle vue. In 1951 Lewis Evans (my father) sold the Noroua and bought a very old Lower St Lawrence Yawl, the "Bonne Chance", above sailing on the Saguenay. The gates to the dry dock can be seen in the background. The boat was christened in the drydock with my baby bottle (I was born in 1951). Doing the honours, my sister Anne and brother Lewis. En 1951, Lewis Evans (mon père) vendit le Noroua et acheta un très vieux Lower St Lawrence Yawl, le "Bonne Chance", au-dessus de la voile sur le Saguenay. Les portes de la cale sèche sont visibles à l'arrière-plan. Le bateau a été baptisé en cale sèche avec mon biberon (je suis né en 1951). Je fais les honneurs, ma soeur Anne et mon frère Lewis. Many photos of the Bonne Chance in the dry dock in 1951! The 3 colour photos were taken by Jack Molson, who bought the boat from my father in 1967 and built a barn for it in Anse à L'Eau, where it still resides! De nombreuses photos de la Bonne Chance en cale sèche en 1951! Les 3 photos en couleurs ont été prises par Jack Molson, qui a acheté le bateau à mon père en 1967 et lui a construit une grange à Anse à L'Eau, où il réside toujours ! Some photos are in poor condition, but still have a lot of information, I bet that's James Beattie (from a negative). Certaines photos sont en mauvais état, mais contiennent encore beaucoup d'informations, je pense qu'il s'agit de James Beattie (d'après un négatif). When I was a kid in the 1950's I'd climb the mountain beside the drydock. The photo above is our boat the "Bonne Chance" (now stored in the Molson Barn by the lake). Recently I tried to take the same picture during the end of season party, but the trees had grown so I couldn't get quite the same angle. Quand je suis jeune dans les années 1950 je monte la montagne à côté de la cale sèche. La photo ci-dessus est notre bateau, le "Bonne Chance" (maintenant situé dans la Molson Barn au bord du lac). Récemment, je ai essayé de prendre la même image pendant la fête de fin saison, mais les arbres sont devenus donc je ne pouvais pas obtenir le même angle. Drawing in coloured pencil by Lilybell Rhodes 1958 The Pilot House 1960's The end of the season - Guy Smith on the "Hobo" entering the drydock at high tide, for winter storage. Lots of spectators on the rocks, maybe his daughters Ann, Pam and Penny? Années 1960 La fin de la saison - Guy Smith sur le " Hobo " entrant dans la cale sèche à marée haute, pour le stockage d'hiver. Beaucoup de spectateurs sur les rochers, peut-être ses filles Ann, Pam et Penny ? In this close-up, Guy Smith is steering the boat (no shirt) and that's probably ARMAND IMBEAU sitting on top of the gate! Dans ce détail, Guy Smith est le pilotage du bateau (pas de chemise) et c'est probablement ARMAND IMBEAU assis sur le dessus de la porte! This painting was done by Guy Smith, the owner of the Hobo, from the photo above. Cette peinture a été réalisée par Guy Smith, le propriétaire de la Hobo, partir de la photo ci-dessus Painting by Tom Evans These two photos were taken at the same time, with the Hobo and a large yawl. Ces deux photos ont été prises en même temps, avec le Hobo et un grand yawl. The Pecks from Cocouna had a sailboat called "Redwing" and it rested in the drydock one winter. about 1960 Le Pecks de Cocouna avait un voilier appelé "Redwing" et il reposait dans la cale sèche d'un hiver. vers 1960 The other boat started out as Lex Smith's "Penwa" (left) and later owned by the Leggats, called the "Gal" (for Gertrude Anne Leggat (Nan)) and below there's Bob Leggat doing some repairs! L'autre bateau a commencé sous le nom de "Penwa" de Lex Smith (à gauche) et a ensuite appartenu aux Leggats, appelé "Gal" (pour Gertrude Anne Leggat (Nan)) et en dessous, Bob Leggat fait quelques réparations ! In 1962 my family visited Tadoussac at New Year's. We stayed at the Hotel Georges. The goelettes in the drydock were a beautiful sight. En 1962, ma famille a visité Tadoussac au Nouvel An. Nous avons séjourné à l'Hôtel Georges. Les Goelettes dans la cale sèche étaient un spectacle magnifique. That's me and my brothers on the left. Ce moi et mes frères sur la gauche. This photo was sent to me by Patrick O'Neill, many of the boats are the same but some are different, not the same winter! Cette photo m'a été envoyé par Patrick O'Neill, la plupart des bateaux sont les mêmes, mais autres sont différents, pas la même hiver! The "Bonne Chance" ready to go at the beginning of the summer, owned by Lewis Evans. La "Bonne Chance" de Lewis Evans prêt pour son lancement au début de l'été. Yawl built by Captain Dallaire Yawl construit par le capitaine Dallaire Armand Imbeau standing on the gate of the Drydock Armand Imbeau debout sur la porte de la Cale Sèche Imbeau biography Armand Imbeau Contractor and Builder of Schooners Certain people, places and events are essential to Tadoussac. The bay, one of the "beautiful bays in the world", the dunes and of course, the "Toupie" from the Prince Shoal in the distance, the little chapel, all are distinctive emblems of the place. The fire of the SS Quebec at the Quai de Tadoussac in 1950 will also remain an event that will be remembered. Among the people, we certainly recognize the names of certain witnesses of the past. This is the case of the famous captain Jos Deschênes and the entrepreneur Armand Imbeau, Tadoussaciens whose names have been attributed to the first and second generation ferries that shuttle incessantly between Baie-Ste-Catherine and Tadoussac. Long before the ferries, the Côte-Nord knew the age of navigation born of local necessity: transport of essential products from the large centers to towns and villages, and shipments of natural resources, notably wood from the sawmills of the region to distribution centers. To meet these needs, Quebec shipbuilders have developed expertise in the construction of wood, sail and later motor vessels, particularly flat-bottomed schooners allowing beaching on the shore to facilitate loading in places without dock. Among these renowned schooner builders from the Charlevoix and Côte-Nord regions, is Armand Imbeau, son of a shipwright from Baie-Ste-Catherine. Navigator, carpenter, entrepreneur, citizen involved in his community, Armand Imbeau left his mark on his profession, his city, his region and his time. Imbeau de Charlevoix The surname Imbeau (Imbeault, Imbault or Imbeaux) was very common in the Charlevoix region between the 17th and the 19th century. We find traces of the ancestor of the Imbeault, François Imbeault (1737-1823) dit Lagrange, a French soldier, and his wife Catherine Ringuet, in La Malbaie – Pointe-au-Pic. Gradually, we note the presence of many families of descent further north of the region, from Saint-Siméon to St-Firmain (Baie-Sainte-Catherine). At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th, Imbeau moved to the Haute-Côte-Nord. (1, 2) Born in Baie-Sainte-Catherine on August 30, 1896, Armand Imbeau was the son of Thomas Imbeau, from Baie-Sainte-Catherine, a carpenter by trade, and Marie Laprise from Grandes-Bergeronnes. At that time, several Imbeau families were established in Baie-Sainte-Catherine. Thomas, Armand’s father, had another son, Lucien, and six daughters who all married in St-Firmain. He also had a famous cousin, Thomas-Louis (Mrg Imbeault, Bishop of Charlevoix), the son of Louis Imbeault, also from Baie-Ste-Catherine. Armand studied carpentry and learned shipbuilding from his father. Erudite and self-taught, Armand Imbeau mastered the language of Molière as well as that of Shakespeare. According to his granddaughter, he had a vast vocabulary and expressed himself in an excellent way. At the age of 25, on April 22, 1919, he married in Tadoussac, Marie-Louise Caron, teacher at the village school (1900 -?), 19 years old, daughter of Mr. John (Benny) Caron and Ms. Éveline Pedneault from Tadoussac. From this union are born five children; Georgette (Marie-Louise-Emma-Georgette), March 11, 1920, died May 25, 1973. She will marry Émile Baril (1904-1989) from Saint-Charles de Mandeville on June 30, 1956. The couple will have no children. Mr. Baril will be a teacher and principal of the Tadoussac elementary school; Jacques, born in 1924 in Tadoussac and died in La Malbaie in 2011. On October 1, 1949, he married Jaqueline Gauthier (1930-2013), daughter of Hector Gauthier, owner of the Hotel Gauthier which would become the Manoir Tadoussac, and of Émilie Brisson. Jacques Imbeau, employed by the Ministry of Lands and Forests, is called upon to work in Hauterive and Havre-St-Pierre. A child will be born from this union, Claudine, the last of the line of Armand Imbeau; Simonne, who died very young (1927-1939); Rachelle (1933-1937) died at the age of 4; Jacqueline (19 ??), who married Rosaire Bouchard (1924-1987) on May 15, 1954 in Tadoussac. The couple settled in Chicoutimi, parents of two boys, Pierre and Jean, who died in infancy. The Imbeau dry dock At the western end of the beach, overlooking the bay before reaching L'Islet, is to the right, at the south-eastern foot of the hill of Anse à l'eau, a small cove, a natural basin which extends the Anse à L'Islet, of which a band of rocks delimits the entrance: the “Dry dock”. Filling at high tide, the place provides access to the deep fjord and makes it easier for ships to enter and launch. On the beach side, the cove is separated from the bay by an isthmus connecting the peninsula to the mainland. Some residents of Tadoussac settle on the bay beach to build boats. In 1923, Mr. Imbeau rented the site from its owners: the Canada Steamship Lines. In 1930, he founded the “Imbeau Dry Dock” in Tadoussac, a company specializing in the construction and repair of wood-hulled ships, particularly those intended for the transport of wood and for yachting. The dry dock will be operational in November 1931. It will be dug by hand the following year to improve its functionality. Thanks to a government subsidy obtained with the support of the municipality and the village priest, the citizens are hired for two weeks at the dry dock site. In order to stimulate the local economy, after two weeks another group of workers took over to allow as many people as possible to get paid work in these difficult times. A building for the storage of materials and tools is erected on the rocks, where the facilities of the "Center for the Interpretation of Marine Mammals" are currently located. We found in this garage, the various tools of the carpenter, such as adzes, several caulking irons and caulking mallets, augers, hand chignoles, crankshafts, planes, gouges, several wood chisels, saws, scrolling hands, planes of all sizes, etc. Massive wooden doors are installed at the entrance to the cove to control the entry of water. Construction and repair activities would take place there until around 1965, a few years before Mr. Imbeau's death. The golden age of the shipyard's activities was between 1930 and 1950. According to government statistics for the registration of new ships, during this period at least 300 motorized wood coasters were built in Quebec, of which nearly 40% in the Charlevoix region. In Tadoussac, a dozen goelettes will emerge from the Imbeau dry dock, including the Saint-Jude in 1935, the Victoire in 1936, the Tadoussac Transport in 1938, the Royal Trader in 1939 and the Vaillant in 1943, his personal boat the St-Étienne Murray Bay in 1939, the Raguenau in 1941. Given the limited space of the dry dock, the boats built had to be of small and medium tonnage. (3, 4) The post-war industrial boom and the construction of roads connecting the towns and villages of the Charlevoix and Côte-Nord regions contributed to the decrease in naval transport needs and marked the end of the schooner era as well as small shipyards. Armand Imbeau nonetheless continued to repair and winterize the boats in the dry dock until around 1965. A man of many talents, he builds a few houses. To fill in the free time that remains to him, he tinkers, repairs everything that is entrusted to him. He even went so far as to act as a shoemaker, an area in which he excelled. When a national park was created, the "Saguenay – St. Lawrence Marine Park" in 1998, the then inactive site was acquired by the provincial government and integrated into the park. Today, under municipal administration, the Imbeau dry dock accommodates pleasure boats during the winter season. In summer, the place serves as a car park for tourists. Armand Imbeau: The involved citizen The social involvement of Mr. Armand Imbeau is also notable. A city councilor from 1928 to 1939, he devoted his life to fostering the economic prosperity of his region and employed up to 75 people at the turn of the 1940s. (5) Armand Imbeau was also involved for several years in the organizations of the Sainte-Croix Church as churchwarden or in the League of the Sacred Heart. An unusual event: The archaeological treasure An unusual event happened to Armand Imbeau in 1923. The year following his marriage, he bought Arthur Hovington's residence located near L'Islet, on a plateau overlooking the Dry Dock Cove, facing the Saguenay River. The young father is busy digging the dirt cellar. A few shovels from the surface, he discovers a canvas pouch containing old coins. The nest egg consisted of 102 coins. Two of them were white metal coins of a size equivalent to today's Canadian dollar. They are in good condition, without excessive wear and bear the effigy of Louis XIV, and date respectively from 1655 and 1659. Two others of the same metal are smaller and more worn, dating from 1591. The rest of the collection includes pieces of yellow metal, a little larger than a dime and relatively worn with time. They are from the same period as the first two. (6) History does not say whether the "treasure" had a great market value which would have enriched its owner, but according to the numismatic archaeologists consulted, the historical value is really significant. Where are these coins? After a while, Armand Imbeau gives them to his boy Jacques, who takes care of them for many years. While the latter resided in Hauterive, the coins disappeared during a theft from the family home. At the end of a busy life, Armand Imbeau passed away in Tadoussac in 1969 at the venerable age of 76. A family monument is erected at the ancestral cemetery of Tadoussac. He left as a legacy marking his village a host of economic achievements and social contributions. His name, which now names two ships of the Société des Traversiers du Québec, is known throughout the province and beyond our borders. Daniel Delisle PhD with the precious collaboration of Claudine Imbeau, granddaughter of Armand Imbeau Armand Imbeau Entrepreneur et Constructeur de goélettes Des personnages, certains lieux, des événements sont incontournables à Tadoussac. La baie, une des « belles baies du monde », les dunes et bien entendu, la «Toupie » du haut-fond prince au lointain, la petite chapelle, tous sont des emblèmes distinctifs de l’endroit. Le feu du Ss Québec au quai de Tadoussac en 1950 restera également un évènement qui restera en mémoire. Parmi les gens, on reconnaît assurément les noms de certains témoins du passé. C’est le cas du célèbre capitaine Jos Deschênes et de l’entrepreneur Armand Imbeau, Tadoussaciens dont on a attribué les noms aux traversiers de première et deuxième générations qui font la navette incessante entre Baie-Ste-Catherine et Tadoussac. Bien avant les traversiers, la Côte-Nord a connu l’âge de la navigation dite de nécessité locale: transport de produits essentiels depuis les grands centres vers les villes et villages, et expéditions de ressources naturelles, notamment le bois des moulins à scie de la région vers les centres de distribution. Pour répondre à ces besoins, les constructeurs navals québécois ont développé une expertise dans la construction de bâtiments de bois, à voiles et plus tard à moteur, particulièrement les goélettes à fonds plats permettant un échouage sur la grève pour faciliter le chargement dans les endroits dépourvus de quai. Parmi ces renommés constructeurs de goélettes de la région de Charlevoix et de la Côte-Nord, Armand Imbeau, fils de charpentier naval de Baie-Ste-Catherine. Navigateur, charpentier, entrepreneur, citoyen impliqué dans sa communauté, Armand Imbeau a marqué sa profession, sa ville, sa région et son époque. Imbeau de Charlevoix Le patronyme Imbeau (Imbeault, Imbault ou Imbeaux) était très répandu dans la région de Charlevoix entre le 17e et le 19e siècle. Nous retrouvons les traces de l’ancêtre des Imbeault, François Imbeault (1737-1823) dit Lagrange, militaire français et de sa conjointe Catherine Ringuet, à La Malbaie–Pointe-au-Pic. Graduellement, on note la présence des nombreuses familles de la descendance plus au nord de la région, à Saint-Siméon jusqu’à St-Firmain (Baie-Sainte-Catherine). En fin de 19e et début du 20e, des Imbeau se déplacent sur la Haute-Côte-Nord. (1, 2) Né à Baie-Sainte-Catherine le 30 août 1896, Armand Imbeau est le fils de Thomas Imbeau, de Baie-Sainte-Catherine, charpentier de profession et de Marie Laprise de Grandes-Bergeronnes. À cette époque, plusieurs familles Imbeau étaient installées à Baie-Sainte-Catherine. Thomas, le père d’Armand aura un autre fils, Lucien et six filles qui se sont tous mariés à St-Firmain. Il a également un cousin célèbre Thomas-Louis, (Mrg Imbeault, évêque de Charlevoix) le fils de Louis Imbeault également de Baie-Ste-Catherine. Armand fait ses classes en charpenterie et apprend la construction navale auprès de son père. Érudit et autodidacte, Armand Imbeau maitrise la langue de Molière aussi bien que celle de Shakespeare. Selon sa petite fille, il possède un vaste vocabulaire et s’exprime d’une excellente façon. À l’âge de 25 ans, le 22 avril 1919, il épouse à Tadoussac, Marie-Louise Caron, enseignante à l’école du village (1900 -?), âgée de 19 ans, fille de monsieur John (Benny) Caron et madame Éveline Pedneault de Tadoussac. De cette union naissent quatre enfants; Georgette (Marie-Louise-Emma-Georgette), le 11 mars 1920, décédée le 25 mai 1973. Elle épousera Émile Baril (1904-1989) de Saint-Charles de Mandeville le 30 juin 1956. Le couple n’aura pas d’enfant. Monsieur Baril sera enseignant et directeur de l’école primaire de Tadoussac; Jacques, né en 1924 à Tadoussac et décédé à La Malbaie en 2011. Il épouse le 1er octobre 1949 Jaqueline Gauthier (1930-2013), fille de Hector Gauthier, propriétaire de l’Hôtel Gauthier qui deviendra le Manoir Tadoussac, et de Émilie Brisson. Employé du ministère des terres et forêts, Jacques Imbeau est appelé à travailler à Hauterive et à Havre-St-Pierre. Un enfant naitra de cette union, Claudine, dernière de la lignée de Armand Imbeau; Simonne, décédée très jeune (1927-1939); Rachelle (1933-1937) décédée à l’âge de 4 ans; Jacqueline (19??), qui épouse Rosaire Bouchard (1924-1987) le 15 mai 1954 à Tadoussac. Le couple s’installe à Chicoutimi, parents de deux garçons Pierre et Jean, décédés en bas âge. La cale sèche Imbeau À l’extrémité ouest de la plage, donnant sur la baie avant d’atteindre L’Islet, se trouve à droite, au pied sud-est de la colline de l’Anse à l’eau, une petite crique, un bassin naturel qui prolonge l’Anse à L’Islet, dont une bande de rochers délimite l’entrée: l’«Anse à cale sèche». Se remplissant à marée haute, l’endroit donne accès au fjord profond et facilite l’entrée et la mise à l’eau des navires. Du côté de la plage, l’anse est séparée de la baie par un isthme reliant la presqu’ile à la terre ferme. Certains résidents de Tadoussac s’installent à même la plage de la baie pour construire des embarcations. En 1923, monsieur Imbeau loue l’emplacement à ses propriétaires : la Canada steamship lines. En 1930, il fonde la « Cale sèche Imbeau » à Tadoussac, une compagnie spécialisée dans la construction et la réparation de navires à coque de bois, particulièrement ceux destinés au transport du bois et à la plaisance. La cale sèche sera opérationnelle en novembre 1931. Elle sera creusée à la main l’année suivante pour améliorer sa fonctionnalité. Grâce à une subvention gouvernementale obtenue grâce à l’appui de la municipalité et du curé du Village, les citoyens sont embauchés pour deux semaines au chantier de la cale sèche. Afin de stimuler l’économie locale, au bout de deux semaines un autre groupe de travailleurs prenait la relève afin de permettre à un maximum de personne d’éteint un travail rémunéré en ces temps difficiles. Un bâtiment nécessaire à l’entreposage des matériaux et des outils sont érigés sur les rochers, là où actuellement se trouvent les installations du « Centre d’interprétation des mammifères marins ». On retrouvait dans ce garage, les divers outils du charpentier, tel que des herminettes, plusieurs fers à calfat et maillets à calfat, des tarières, chignoles à main, vilebrequins, planes, gouges, plusieurs ciseaux à bois, scies, égoïnes à chantourner, rabots de toutes grosseurs, etc. De massives portes de bois sont installées à l’entrée de l’anse afin d’y contrôler l’entrée d’eau. Les activités de constructions et de réparations s’y dérouleront jusqu’en 1965 environ, quelques années avant le décès de monsieur Imbeau. L’âge d’or des activités du chantier se situant entre 1930 et 1950. Selon les statistiques gouvernementales d’enregistrement des nouveaux navires, au cours de cette période au moins 300 caboteurs de bois à moteur furent construits au total au Québec, dont près de 40% dans la région de Charlevoix. À Tadoussac, c’est une douzaine de bâtiments qui sortiront de la cale sèche Imbeau, dont le Saint-Jude en 1935, le Victoire en 1936, le Tadoussac Transport en 1938, le Royal Trader en 1939 et le Vaillant en 1943, son bateau personnel, le St-Étienne Murray Bay en 1939, le Raguenau en 1941. Étant donné l’espace restreint de la cale sèche, les bateaux construits devaient être de petites et de moyen tonnage. (3, 4) L’essor industriel d’après guerre et la construction de routes reliant les villes et villages des régions de Charlevoix et de la Côte-Nord contribuent à la diminution des besoins en transport naval et marquent la fin de l’ère des goélettes de même que des petits chantiers maritimes. Armand Imbeau continu tout de même la réparation et l’hivernent des bateaux dans la cale sèche jusqu’en 1965 environ. Homme aux multiples talents, il réalise la construction que quelques maisons. Pour combler le temps libre qui lui reste, il bricole, répare tout ce qu’on lui confie. Il va même jusqu’à faire office de cordonnier, domaine dans lequel il excellait. Lors de la création d’un parc national, le « Parc marin du Saguenay–Saint-Laurent » en 1998, le site alors inactif, est acquis par le gouvernement provincial et intégré au parc. Aujourd’hui, sous l’administration municipale, la cale sèche Imbeau accueille les bateaux de plaisance pendant la saison hivernale. En été, le lieu sert de stationnement automobile pour les touristes. Armand Imbeau: Le citoyen impliqué L’implication sociale de monsieur Armand Imbeau est également notable. Conseiller municipal de 1928 à 1939, il a consacré sa vie à favoriser la prospérité économique de sa région et employait jusqu’à 75 personnes au tournant des années 40. (5) Armand Imbeau s’est également engagé plusieurs années dans les organismes de l’église Sainte-Croix comme marguillier ou encore à la Ligue du Sacré-Cœur. Un événement inusité : Le trésor archéologique Un événement inusité arrive à Armand Imbeau en 1923. L’année suivant son mariage, il achète la résidence de Arthur Hovington située près de L’Islet, sur un plateau surplombant l’Anse à cale sèche, orientée face à la rivière Saguenay, le jeune père de famille s’affaire à creuser la cave en terre battue. A quelques coups de pelles de la surface, il fait la découverte d’une pochette de toile contenant des pièces de monnaie anciennes. Le magot était constitué de 102 pièces. Deux d’entre elles étaient des pièces de métal blanc d’une grande équivalente à une pièce d’un dollar canadien actuel. Elles sont en bon état, sans usure excessive et portent l’effigie de Louis XIV, et date respectivement de 1655 et 1659. Deux autres du même métal sont plus petites et plus usées, datant de 1591. Le reste de la collection comprend des pièces de métal jaune, un peu plus grandes qu’une pièce de 10 cents et sont relativement usées par le temps. Elles sont de la même époque que les deux premières. (6) L’histoire ne dit pas si le « trésor » avait une grande valeur marchande qui aurait enrichi son propriétaire, mais selon les archéologues numismates consultés, la valeur historique est réellement importante. Où sont rendues ces pièces de monnaie? Après un certain temps, Armand Imbeau les donne à son garçon Jacques qui en prend un soin jaloux pendant de nombreuses années. Alors que ce dernier résidait à Hauterive, les pièces disparaissent lors d’un vol au domicile familial. Au terme d’une vie bien remplie, Armand Imbeau s’éteint à Tadoussac en 1969 à l’âge vénérable de 76 ans. Une stèle familiale est érigée au cimetière ancestral de Tadoussac. Il laisse en héritage marquant à son village une foule de réalisations économiques et de contributions sociales. Son nom, qui baptise maintenant deux navires de la Société des traversiers du Québec est connu dans toute la province et au-delà de nos frontières. Daniel Delisle PhD avec la précieuse collaboration de Claudine Imbeau, petite fille de Armand Imbeau Inconnu, Illégitimes en Charlevoix (2), les Imbeault, https://www.touslestemps.net/2-imbeault-1-2/ Inconnu, Illégitimes en Charlevoix (3), les Imbeault, https://www.touslestemps.net/imbeault-2-2/ Frank, A., Les chantiers maritimes traditionnels: il était de petits navires, Continuité, 2001, (89), 37-39 Desjardins, Robert, Les voitures d’eau, le cabotage artisanal sur le St-Laurent, 2013, http://goelettesduquebec.ca Société des traversiers du Québec, https://www.traversiers.com/fr/a-propos-de-la-societe/nos-navires/nm-armand-imbeau/ Bulletin des recherches historiques : bulletin d'archéologie, d'histoire, de biographie, de numismatique, etc., décembre 1923 another story...from writings of Ann Dewart Late in the1920s, Dad (Dr Stevenson) bought one of the old Price Brothers Company's abandoned houses in Baie Ste. Catherine for $25 and had it knocked down and ferried across the river. For several years the wood lay on the ground near Pépin's Road (Rue de la Pointe Rouge) until finally Armand Imbeault, the carpenter, persuaded Dad to build with it before it rotted away. Again, Dad did the design, patterned after our original house (the Stevenson/Reilley house). This house would later become Elizabeth’s and my house (the O'Neill house). (The Dewarts eventually sold out of that house and bought Tivoli, and...) Later, we had Armand Imbeault, the founder of the cale sêche, close in the sundeck to make a sleeping porch. une autre histoire... d'après les écrits d'Ann Dewart À la fin des années 1920, papa (Dr Stevenson) a acheté une des maisons abandonnées de l'ancienne Price Brothers Company à Baie Ste. Catherine pour 25 $ et l'a fait renverser et transporté de l'autre côté de la rivière. Pendant plusieurs années, le bois est resté sur le sol près du chemin Pépin (rue de la Pointe Rouge) jusqu'à ce que finalement Armand Imbeault, le menuisier, ait persuadé papa de construire avec avant qu'il ne pourrisse. Encore une fois, papa a fait le design, sur le modèle de notre maison d'origine (la maison Stevenson/Reilley). Cette maison deviendra plus tard celle d'Elizabeth et moi (la maison O'Neill). (Les Dewarts ont finalement vendu cette maison et acheté Tivoli, et...) Plus tard, nous avons demandé à Armand Imbeault, le fondateur de la cale sêche, de fermer le solarium pour en faire une véranda pour dormir. Maurice and Pierre Tremblay were excellent carpenters. Maurice excelled as a cabinetmaker and sculptor, Pierre as a joiner-carpenter. Maurice sculpted several statues for our church, including the Saint-Joseph and Thérèse-de-Lisieux statues. He worked on the construction of the dry dock doors with Mr. Armand Imbeau. He became the owner around 1965 and remained so until his death in 1975. Pierre built several houses in Tadoussac. He worked primarily for the English-speaking community, maintaining their cottages; Hector Gauthier trained him for this work. He built the old barns behind the Maritime Museum, erected the Jacques Cartier Cross, and carried out repairs to the Chauvin House and the Old Chapel in the 1960s. After his death in 1991, Roger and Jean-Philippe Hovington took over from the summer residents. LES VIEILLES FAMILLES DE TADOUSSAC, 1850-1950 Gaby Villeneuve Maurice et Pierre étaient d'excellents charpentiers. Maurice excellait comme ébéniste et sculpteur, et Pierre comme menuisier-charpentier. Maurice a sculpté plusieurs statues pour notre église, dont celles de Saint-Joseph et de Thérèse-de-Lisieux. Il a travaillé à la construction des portes de la cale sèche avec M. Armand Imbeau. Il en est devenu le propriétaire vers 1965 et l'est resté jusqu'à son décès en 1975. Pierre a bâti plusieurs maisons à Tadoussac. Il a principalement travaillé pour la communauté anglophone, entretenant leurs chalets ; Hector Gauthier l'a formé à ce travail. Il a construit les vieilles granges derrière le Musée maritime, érigé la croix Jacques-Cartier et effectué des réparations à la maison Chauvin et à la vieille chapelle dans les années 1960. Après son décès en 1991, Roger et Jean-Philippe Hovington ont pris la relève des résidents estivaux. 85

After a very difficult start to life, Tadoussac was very likely a place to heal Janes, Mary Francis Russell After a very difficult start to life, Tadoussac was very likely a place to heal Back to ALL Bios Mary Frances Russell Janes 1864 - 1915 Mary Frances Russell Janes’ mother was born in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1836, the daughter of Willis Russell and Rebecca Page (Sanborn). In 1843, when she was seven, Mary’s family relocated to Quebec City where her father, Willis, entered the hotel business. In 1858, Mary married a Scotsman, William Duthie Baxter Janes and they moved to Montreal. Their first daughter, Mary Frances Russell Janes (1860) died within a week of her birth, and their second daughter, Elizabeth Anne Leavitte Janes (1861) died at the age of one. Erie Russell Janes (1863) was the third daughter. She survived and thrived, as did her younger sister who was given the same name as the first child, and is the subject of this biography, Mary Frances Russell Janes (1864). In Willis Russell’s biography, it was mentioned that a doctor recommended sea air for Willis’s ailing daughter. His friend William Rhodes encouraged him to join him in Tadoussac, a plan that led to the construction of Spruce Cliff in 1861. It seems clear that Mary was that ailing daughter and sadly, tragedy struck one more time. In the days following this fourth daughter’s birth, Willis’s daughter, Mary, weakened and died in Quebec at the age of twenty-eight. She was buried in the family plot at Mount Hermon Cemetery in Quebec. The two surviving children, Erie and Mary, went to live with their grandparents, Willis and Rebecca, who had built Spruce Cliff as a place for their daughter to heal. One can only hope that after being left with two babies and enduring three family deaths in five years, the cottage helped to heal the whole family. Erie eventually married George de Guerry Languedoc and built Amberley Cottage in Languedoc Park. Mary never married and she continued to come to Tadoussac every summer to Spruce Cliff, staying with her grandparents until they died in the late 1880s, and then with her Uncle William and his three children. An old family letter reveals that she lived for a time with her sister, Erie, and her husband, George Languedoc, in Ottawa. Mary died in 1915 at the age of fifty-one. In the chapel, both the baptismal font and a wall plaque are given in memory of her fifty years of summer residency in Tadoussac. Back to ALL Bios

Built the “Turcot House” in 1946 which they loved sharing with family and friends, especially hosting teas on the lawn. Both were decorated for their service in WW1. Turcot, Percy & Marjorie (Webb) Built the “Turcot House” in 1946 which they loved sharing with family and friends, especially hosting teas on the lawn. Both were decorated for their service in WW1. Back to ALL Bios Marjorie Webb Turcot (1887 – 1976) & Percy Turcot (1886 – 1983) Parents and Grandparents to: • John Turcot (1920 – 2003) and Margaret Close o Cheryl/Ralph, John/Sue, David/Collette, Greg/Trudy • Elliott Turcot (1922 – 2019) and Peggy Durnford o Mary/Ron, Linda/Cameron, Michael • Peter Turcot (1925 – 2018) and Anne Dean o Wendy/Brian, Peggy/Scott, Peter, Chris/Christine, Susan/Chris • Joan Turcot (1928 – 1972) Marjorie’s sisters were Dorothy, who married Arthur Warburton, and Rachel who married Dennis Stairs and summered next door to Marjorie in what is now the Durnford’s cottage. Marjorie (Webb) and her husband Percival Turcot were the parents of four children, John (1920), Elliott (1922), Peter (1925), and Joan, (1928). The two who shared the cottage in Tadoussac were John and his wife Marjorie, and their children Cheryl, John, David and Greg, and Peter and Anne, and their children Wendy, Peggy, Peter, Chris, and Susan. Marjorie Webb grew up on St. Denis Street in Quebec City. As a nurse she served overseas from 1914 to 1919, spending significant time on the front lines at the Casualty Clearing Stations in France for which she was decorated with the Royal Red Cross. In a letter home to her mother, she wrote: “I am sorry I have not been telling you about the work, it’s rather hard to write about. Lately, since the tents were opened, we have been getting all the stretcher cases. The wounds are pretty hard to look at but you get used to it.” She was stationed at the front including spending time at the horrific Battle of the Somme. Percy Turcot grew up in Quebec City and vacationed with his family in St. Irenée. He also served on the front lines in World War I as a Captain and was wounded. He went on to a career as a shipping executive with Mclean Kennedy, a shipping broker. In 1916, shortly after being commissioned to France from England, he wrote to Marjorie: “It is a great feeling to at last feel you are going to try to do something. There is no truer saying than – ‘The only man who is happy today is the man at the front.’” Even at the age of thirty, he needed permission from his mother as he was the sole supporter of his family. “I had a hard time getting my mother’s permission, but she said yes yesterday, I am now in for it. I was very hard on poor mother.” They were married in 1919 shortly after Marjorie returned from Europe. All four children were born in St. John, New Brunswick before moving to Montreal around 1930. Marjorie and Percy purchased their Tadoussac property from Rachel Stairs and built the existing Turcot house in 1946. Marjorie and her son Peter, aged twenty-one, spent the summer in Tad overseeing the construction and building the path to the beach, while Percy working in the shipping business made sure that post-war supplies were delivered. Teatime was a ritual with friends in the afternoon in the front yard in Tadoussac, and every Sunday in Westmount, with lots and lots of family. Grandchildren were given free run of the house on Belmont Avenue, which included playing super eight family movies, ping pong games, and watching Walt Disney. The house in Tad was often overflowing with guests and family. Marjorie was a prolific reader who loved picnics, berry picking, and flowers. Percy was an avid sportsman. Rumour has it he would play nine holes of golf before work in St John, NB every day. Both played tennis, and golf, and skied, but not on Sunday. They were opposites in so many ways and yet married for fifty-seven years. Marjorie, a devoted Anglican, was serious and generous to a fault with a keen interest in everyone she met and interacted with. Percy attended the Catholic Church and was a true Quebecer who lived his life full of “joie de vivre” … however one common trait was you were always warmly welcomed by both into their home. “Last touch” by Gammie’s cane was always a game with the grandchildren on the way out the door. Betty Evans made the needlepoint seat cushion for one of the chairs at the front of the church in Tad in memory of Marjorie Turcot and the carved wooden top on the font at the back of the church was also given in her memory (carved by Pierre Tremblay). Percy, having a career in the shipping business, would raise shipping flags with the help of his grandchildren, to salute the passing Headline ships on the Saguenay to see if they would toot their horn in response, which they did on occasion. The funnel colours for the Headline ships were black bearing the ‘Red Hand of Ulster’ with three drops of blood on a white shield. The bloody hand became a theme of many ghost stories told at Tad bonfires on the beach. Marjorie was one of the first women to vote in Canada. In 1917 The federal government granted limited war-time suffrage to enlisted women in 1917 (Military Voters Act, awarded the vote to women serving in the armed forces as well as nurses in the war) and was followed by full suffrage for women in 1918.   Chris Turcot (plus family!) Back to ALL Bios

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Matriarch of the Smith family in Tadoussac as her son, Robert Harcourt Smith, bought Dufferin House Smith, Amelia Jane (LeMesurier) Matriarch of the Smith family in Tadoussac as her son, Robert Harcourt Smith, bought Dufferin House Back to ALL Bios Amelia Jane (LeMesurier) Smith 1832-1917 Amelia Jane LeMesurier was born in Quebec City in 1832. She was the fourth daughter and one of twelve children of Henry LeMesurier and his wife Julie Guerout. In 1857 she married Robert Herbert Smith (1825-1898) also of Quebec City. He was involved in the Timber and Shipping business, and it is this business that may have brought the family to Tadoussac. They had eight children, Robert Harcourt (1858), Edith (1862, who married Henry Baring Powel), Amelia Blanche (1863, who married Sir William Price), Herbert (1866), Charles (1867), George (1870), Edmund (1874), and Arthur (1875). There are memorial plaques for all of these children except Edith. Amelia’s oldest son, Harcourt, was also in the lumber business and he bought Dufferin House from the Dale family. It may have been he who brought the Smith family to Tadoussac, currently in its sixth generation. Amelia Jane died in Quebec City in 1917 having been predeceased by her sons Robert Harcourt in 1913 and Herbert in 1915. She is buried with her husband in Mount Hermon Cemetery, in Quebec City. Because these are the first Smiths to come to Tadoussac it is worth noting here that first, it is unknown whether Amelia’s husband Robert ever holidayed here. It may be that Amelia and her other children only came after her son Harcourt bought Dufferin House in 1911. Also, because Amelia Blanche married Sir William Price, and Edith married Henry Baring Powel, the Smith, Price and Powel families became connected. Coosie Price, Harky Powel and brothers Lex, Gordon and Guy Smith were all first cousins. It should be noted that the name Carington is not part of the Smith surname, but a frequently used middle name.   Eve Wickwire Photos ~1906 shows Amelia Jane Lemesurier Smith, her son Robert Harcourt Carrington Smith, and his son Gordon Smith, father of Eve Wickwire! ~1894 the children George (1870), Herbert (1866) Robert Harcourt (1858), Amelia Blanche (1863, who married Sir William Price), Charles (1867) Arthur (1875), Edmund (1874) missing Edith (1862, who married Henry Baring Powel) Back to ALL Bios

Teddy had a very successful career in the military that took him and Mary around the world Price, Colonel H. Edward (Teddy) C. & Mary Winifred (Hampson) Teddy had a very successful career in the military that took him and Mary around the world Back to ALL Bios H. Edward C. Price 1916 - 1995 & Mary Winifred (Hampson) 1917 - 1977 Henry Edward Clifford (Teddy) Price was born in Quebec City in 1916, the eighth child and third son of Harry Price and Muriel Gilmour. He grew up in Quebec among his family at 2 and 18 rue Saint-Denis in old Quebec near the Citadel. He spent his summers in Tadoussac where he had many friends including Jim and Jean Alexander and met his wife Mary Hampson in the mid-1930s. From 1929 to 1931 he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope but was withdrawn when he became homesick. When he wanted to go back later, the family could no longer afford it having lost money in the depression. He graduated in 1935 from the High School of Quebec, and attended the Royal Military College in Kingston, just as many of his relatives did before him. Mary Winifred Hampson was born in Montreal in 1917, to Edward Greville Hampson and Helen Winifred Stanway. She grew up in Montreal with her younger sister Barbara Isabel and brother John Greville. They lived initially on Bishop Street and later moved to 1501 MacGregor Street at the corner of Simpson. (MacGregor Street had its name changed to Avenue Docteur Penfield long after the Hampsons sold their house.) As well as their house in Montreal, the Hampsons acquired a farm near Ste. Therese where they spent their weekends. Mary attended the Study School in Montreal and was a boarder at Elmwood School in Ottawa from which she graduated in 1935. She later attended finishing schools in Germany and England. She was not allowed to attend university by her father who did not believe girls should attend university. Instead, she used to audit the courses for her friends at McGill so they would be marked as present at their lectures when they were absent. For the rest of her life, she always enjoyed reading books to make up for her lack of a university career but made sure her daughters were properly educated. The Hampsons spent many summers in Murray Bay and Cap a l’Aigle. Sometime in the mid-1930s the Hampsons came to Tadoussac by boat and stayed at the Hotel Tadoussac. There Mary encountered many friends, including her future husband Ted Price, as well as Jim Alexander who would marry her sister Barbara. At the start of World War II in 1939, Ted joined the Canadian Army and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Permanent Force and went overseas with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Prior to his departure he and Mary were married on a week’s notice on November 18, 1939, at St. George’s Church in Montreal. Mary followed Ted overseas to Surrey, England where they set up house in Yew Tree Cottage in Lower Kingswood near Reigate, Surrey and their four children were born: Greville in February 1941, twins Tim and Ginny in January 1943, and Sally in September 1944. In 1942 Ted was transferred to the headquarters of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in England and served in the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy. After attending the British Army Staff College in 1944 he was posted to the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in the United Kingdom and North-West Europe until the end of the war. In August 1945, the family returned to Canada where they received a tremendous welcome coming off the boat in Tadoussac meeting parents, siblings, cousins, and friends they had not seen in many years. Ted remained in the Army after the war serving in a variety of military positions. His many postings included Kingston, Ottawa, Vancouver, and England. Then he was back to Canada in Petawawa before going to Germany, then Victoria, Newfoundland, and even Tanzania before his final posting in Washington. He retired from the Canadian army in 1970 with the rank of Colonel. The family went with Ted on all these moves, which came regularly every two to three years. It was up to Mary to find a home (if a PMQ was not allotted by the army), find schools for the children, make new friends or find out if they knew some of the military families from previous postings, and get to know some friends in the new location. In 1946 they purchased a house at 118 Lisgar Road, Rockcliffe as a pied de terre, whenever they were in Ottawa, and as a place to retire, which they did in 1970. Mary took advantage of the frequent moves to take the family with or without Ted on trips around British Columbia, England or Europe. When the family were older, they would bring their spouses and later grandchildren to the postings in Tanzania for the game parks, and Washington. The trips were always well-planned. He remained active in many charitable activities, particularly the Order of St. Lazarus as its Secretary General for several years. He was active as a golfer at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club and was a member of the Rideau Club where he served a term as Secretary. He also enjoyed tennis, squash and skiing. He was a keen fisherman belonging to several fishing clubs, particularly the Magnassippi Angling Club near Deux Rivieres, Ontario. In 1956, Mary bought Ted’s family’s summer house, the Harry Price House, in Tadoussac from her brother-in-law Jimmy, so she was able to spend most summers in Tadoussac. She was able to get to Tad from most places in North America, except the West coast, and for every summer after Ted retired. While in Tadoussac she enjoyed the picnics, played bridge with many friends, read books, swam in the lake and entertained friends and relatives. She introduced her many friends they had met during the army days to the Saguenay and their Tadoussac friends. During his retirement leave at the start of 1970, Ted and Mary embarked on a long-planned round-the-world tour to see their many friends in many places. After retirement, Mary and Ted lived in their house in Ottawa and watched their four children all get married between 1966 and 1972 and eventually grandchildren arrived. They enjoyed visiting Ginny and Randy in Newfoundland, Sally and Ross in Somerset, England, Tim and Frances in Montreal and Antigua, and Greville and Kerry who remained in Ottawa. Mary got sick in the fall of 1976 and died of pancreatic cancer in April 1977, three months before her 60th birthday. Ted remained strongly committed to the Price family corresponding with many relatives in various parts of the world in the 1970s and 1980s, building up voluminous files. He developed the initial family tree in 1974. He supported the start of the reunions in 1987 and gave the address to the 1992 Tadoussac reunion at the Tadoussac Protestant Chapel. In 1971, Ted joined the Standards Council of Canada on its formation, serving as its Director of Administration and Secretary General until his second retirement in July 1981. After Mary died, Ted married Martha “Marty” Eberts, who was also recently widowed. She had been the wife of Chris Eberts, the brother of Bea Eberts who was married to Ted’s cousin Charlie Price. They lived in Ottawa and were very supportive of their families. Marty developed dementia and in 1990 had to be admitted to a home, which was stressful for Ted. He developed prostate cancer and died on November 16, 1995, in Ottawa with his funeral being held two days later on the date of his original wedding anniversary. At his memorial service a few days later, the eulogy was given by his godson Tony Price. Greville Price Photo Below Jim, Michael, and Bar (Hampson) Alexander, and Mary (Hampson), Ted and Greville Price Back to ALL Bios

Consecrated Bishop of Quebec in 1915, Lennox Williams and his wife Nan Rhodes loved to relax in Tadoussac in the summer Rhodes, Caroline Anne (Nan) & The Right Reverend Lennox Williams Consecrated Bishop of Quebec in 1915, Lennox Williams and his wife Nan Rhodes loved to relax in Tadoussac in the summer Back to ALL Bios Caroline Anne (Nan) (Rhodes) Williams 1861-1937 & Bishop Lennox Williams, DD 1859-1958 Lennox Williams was born in 1859, in Chapman House at Bishop’s College School located in Lennoxville, Quebec. His father, James Williams, was the fourth bishop of Quebec and he was born in Aberystwyth, Wales. His mother was Anna Maria Waldron, and she was born in 1821. Lennox attended BCS as a boy and eventually became Head Prefect. He would often regale future generations of BCS family members with tales of experiences at the school and in particular his time as Head Prefect. Lennox studied theology at St. John’s College, Oxford, and rowed for the college. His oar, with the names of the team members, still hangs on the wall of his cottage, Brynhyfryd, in Tadoussac. Lennox was ordained in 1885 and began his career as curate at St Matthew’s Church in Quebec. In 1899 he became the Dean of Quebec at Trinity Cathedral. In this role he would often travel in the summers to participate in confirmations throughout the eastern half of the province, including the Cote-Nord. In 1915 he was consecrated as the sixth bishop of Quebec and served until his retirement in 1935. Later in his life, he took services at the Protestant Chapel in Tadoussac. Caroline Anne (Nan) Rhodes Williams was the seventh child of Col. William Rhodes and Anne Catherine Dunn. She was born in Sillery, Quebec in 1861. Her family called her “Annie” but to her children, she was known as “Nan”. The ages of her brothers and sisters were spread over almost twenty years, yet they grew up actively engaged with each other. Armitage, her eldest brother, made her a big snow house; Godfrey took her and her sister Minnie skating and sliding. They all spent summers in Tadoussac together, Nan with her dog Tiney. She and her brother Godfrey frequently “apple-pied” all the beds, causing bedlam in the house. Growing up at Benmore the family home in Sillery, she was surrounded by an endless collection of birds and animals - geese, chickens, bantams, rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks and ponies, and even beehives. All were welcome inhabitants of her family’s farm. Her brothers, Godfrey and Willy procured a bear cub and had a pole for it to climb. The family meals often included caribou and rabbit meat from her father’s hunting trips. Croquet was a favourite family game on the lawn. In winter, Nan and her sister Minnie travelled by sleigh through the deep snow to their lessons at dancing school. Nan was a lively young girl who always loved jokes. Her father described her as “full of play”. Nan became engaged to Lennox when he was at St. Michael’s Anglican Church in Sillery. She and Lennox Williams were married there in 1887. Her sister Gerty and her best friend Violet Montizambert were her bridesmaids. Their first child, James, was born in 1888, followed by Mary (Wallace) in 1890, Gertrude (Alexander) in 1894, and Sydney Williams in 1899. As their children were growing up in Quebec, Lennox served at St. Michael’s. His work always involved people and when he became Dean, and later Bishop of Quebec, his duties extended over the vast geography of the Quebec Diocese. Assisting him in his work brought Nan in contact with the many different people in the city and the province, some of whom would go overseas to serve in the South African (Boer) War, World War I, and World War II. The winter of 1913-14 in Quebec was the last carefree time before World War I began. Nan always welcomed her children’s friends around the Deanery for supper or tea. According to one of her future sons-in-law, “On some evenings it was quite amusing. The Dean and Mrs. Williams sat in his study, Jim Williams and Evelyn Meredith sat in an upstairs sitting room, Mary Williams and Jack Wallace in the drawing room, and Gertrude and Ronald Alexander in the dining room. Mrs. Williams was a very understanding person.” This was still the age of chaperones. Before going overseas, Jim and Evelyn were married, and both enjoyed summers in Tadoussac with the family at Brynhyfryd. The war also brought devastation for the Williams family as it did for so many families of that generation. James, the eldest son, who had also attended Oxford University, was commissioned into the Canadian Army shortly after the war began. He served valiantly as an officer but was killed at the battle of the Somme in 1916. Lennox was devastated by the loss of his son and many said he was never the same after. Each summer Lennox would read the lesson about King David’s son, Absalom, who was killed in battle and many of the congregation felt that Lennox was lamenting his own son’s death. It was in November 1916, that Nan received the news that her son Jim was killed, and two months later in January 1917, she and Lennox, accompanied by their daughters, Mary and Gertrude, sailed to England. Mary went to see Jack Wallace, Jim’s best friend, and Gertrude was to be married to Ronald Alexander (who was serving with the Victoria Rifles). The wedding took place on February 19, 1917, with Mary participating as a bridesmaid. They stayed in London at Queen Anne’s Mansions and remained there until April. After the War, Nan and Lennox continued their active life together as Lennox had been consecrated as Bishop of Quebec in 1915. The Rhodes family house in Tadoussac, built in 1860, had been left to Nan. It burnt down in 1932 and was rebuilt the next year. Brynhyfryd remains in Nan’s family today. When Lennox retired in 1934, they had more time to spend in Tadoussac and ten grandchildren to enjoy it with them. One day, walking to town with one of her ten grandchildren, Nan discovered that her grandchild had lifted a bit of candy from Pierre Cid’s General Store. She marched her back to return it and to apologize. To one of her grandchildren “Granny was always game for some fun and she had lots of energy.” Nan loved to be out rowing the boats and like others her age, she swam regularly in the refreshing saltwater of the bay. On June 30, 1937, she climbed up the path from the beach and, reaching the house feeling a bit tired, she took a rest. Nan died suddenly later that evening. Lennox’s favourite book was Alice in Wonderland, which he would often quote to his grandchildren. His grandchildren also had many fond memories of their time with Lennox in Tadoussac. Every morning at eight am the entire family would meet outside the dining room for prayers with everyone on their knees. Meals were served on time and exemplary manners were expected (elbows off the table). Afternoons were spent smoking his pipe or perhaps on special occasions a cigar, under the trees on the edge of the bank at Brynhyfryd with his white (Samoyed) dog Kara. Evenings were spent playing card games like Old Maid or Bridge with his children and grandchildren. He remained a great athlete and enjoyed tennis and golf into his old age. Eventually, in his nineties, he was slowed a little and transitioned from the golf course to the putting green at the hotel for his activity. Lennox died in Tadoussac in his 100th year on the 8th of July 1958. The Lychgate at the Protestant Chapel in Tadoussac (roofed gateway at the entrance of the chapel) was donated by the congregation in his memory.   Back to ALL Bios

An incurable lover of boats, Robin became the second president of Canadian Heritage of Quebec Molson, Charles Robin Carington An incurable lover of boats, Robin became the second president of Canadian Heritage of Quebec Back to ALL Bios Charles ROBIN Carington Molson In the first summer of Robin’s life, he was taken to Tadoussac by his parents. His father, Jack, had suggested they bring their baby to Metis but his mother, Doris Carington (Smith), wanted to continue her family’s tradition. Doris won. As a young boy, Robin was drawn to the St. Lawrence and the Saguenay. He would sail with his friend Jimmy Williams in Tadoussac Bay in his “Empress of Tadoussac”, one fateful summer nearly drowning them both. After this misfortune, he developed a healthy respect for river currents, tides, and moods. His nickname became “Boat”, and for the remainder of his life he was known as “Boat Molson” by his Tadoussac friends. Robin’s life was a full one. His interests were widespread, his enthusiasms broad. From the time he was a schoolboy at Selwyn House in Montreal and through Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville he made friends easily, many of these friendships enduring until the end of his life. While a student at BCS, he was given special permission from his Housemaster Lewis Evans to have unlimited use of the workshop, where he built his dinghy. It helped enormously to have had Lewis as his next-door neighbor in Tadoussac! Other youthful adventures included bicycling in France, motorcycling in Norway, skiing in the Swiss Alps and even climbing the Matterhorn. Following his studies at McGill and the University of Oslo, Robin joined the Federal Department of Fisheries and was posted to St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he had his beloved sailboat “Sea Fever” built. He married Carolyn Strong in 1959, and five years later he was transferred to Ottawa, a little closer to Tadoussac. Now he was able to continue his family tradition by spending his summer holidays here with his young family. Retiring in the late 1980s due to the declining health of his father, Robin assumed the responsibility of the Canadian Heritage of Quebec, a charitable organization founded by his father and James Beattie in 1960. He spent the rest of his life devoted to its operations and principles. He put his father’s dreams into action, opening various sites as museums, galleries, and for summer rental. The Musee Maritime in Tadoussac (in which many of his own boat models are displayed) and the picnic site at Bon Desir (where he loved picking cranberries) were among his most favorite. New acquisitions were made with wisdom and discernment. During Robin’s seventeen years as President, he earned the esteem of his colleagues, the admiration of his partners in the field, and deep affection of the organization’s employees, volunteers, supporters and friends. He remained president until his death in 2005. Robin’s many lifelong interests included sailing, building model boats, photography, and astronomy. His numerous friends could always count on him to come through with every commitment he made. He was an attentive and faithful companion to many dogs, and in his family life, he was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. Above all, he was a man of compassion, patience, humility, and good humour. Tadoussac had a profound influence in Robin’s life. His happiness upon arriving here was heartfelt; his saddest days were those when he had to leave. Back to ALL Bios

Charles was an avid athlete and he and Aileen were the parents of Doris Molson Smith, Charles Carington & Aileen (Dawson) Charles was an avid athlete and he and Aileen were the parents of Doris Molson Back to ALL Bios Charles Carington Smith 1867 - 1952 & Aileen (Dawson) Smith 1874 - 1959 Charles was the third son of Robert Harcourt Smith and Amelia Jane (LeMesurier) of Quebec City. He was educated at Upper Canada College. His banking career began with the Toronto branch of the Quebec Bank. He won many awards in the 1890s for rowing and canoeing. In the early 1900s, he moved to Quebec, continuing his career with the Quebec Bank, and was a member of the Quebec Bank hockey team that won the bank hockey championships in Montreal in 1900. In 1901 Charles married Aileen Dawson. Aileen was the daughter of Col. George Dudley Dawson and his wife of County Carlow, Ireland, and was born in Toronto. Charles and Aileen had four children: Doris Amelia (1902), George Noel (1904), Herbert, (1906), and May (1908). Their daughter Doris married Jack Molson and their Molson descendants continue to summer in Tadoussac. The family moved to Montmorency Falls where they lived for the rest of Charles’s working career, which continued with the Royal Bank of Canada after their take-over of the Quebec Bank in 1917. They retired to Kingston, Ontario from where annual summer visits to Tadoussac were much enjoyed. Eve Wickwire left ~1894 the children George (1870), Herbert (1866) Robert Harcourt (1858), Amelia Blanche (1863, who married Sir William Price), Charles (1867) Arthur (1875), Edmund (1874) missing Edith (1862, who married Henry Baring Powel) right Doris (Molson) and Verity Back to ALL Bios

Henry Price's oldest son, Gilmour was tragically killed in an industrial accident at the age of 30 Price, William Gilmour Henry Price's oldest son, Gilmour was tragically killed in an industrial accident at the age of 30 Back to ALL Bios William Gilmour (Gilly) Price 1910 - 1940 William Gilmour (Gilly) Price was the fifth child and the eldest son out of ten children of Henry Edward Price and Helen Muriel Gilmour. Muriel was the granddaughter of John Gilmour who was a contemporary of the original William Price and an equally renowned lumber merchant in Quebec City at that time. The Harry Prices lived at 2 and then 16 St. Denis Ave, near the Citadelle. At the time they were comfortably off during Gilly’s childhood, as his sister Helen talked of trips to Europe in 1913, 1921 and 1928. Gilmour attended Trinity College School, Port Hope from 1924 to 1928. After leaving TCS, he lived with his parents, and according to his family, he loved children and had a wonderful rapport with them. Later, during the depression, the family lost their money with the bankruptcy of Price Brothers. William Gilmour worked for Price Brothers and in 1940 was working in a maintenance position in the paper mill at Riverbend. Gilly was very much of the family tradition of the Price family of working your way up the ladder from the lower ranks. He married Maimie Ida Elizabeth Fletcher from Lachute in 1938 or 1939. He had been courting her for many years but was not allowed to marry earlier due to the company policy at the time. His nieces Joan and Susan Williams were flower girls at their wedding, and remember the reception at 16 St. Denis Avenue. Gilmour died in an industrial accident while maintaining a paper machine at the Riverbend Mill on July 9, 1940, at the age of thirty. This was two months before his son, also named William Gilmour (and usually known as Gil), was born. Ida was living in Kenogami at the time of the accident. In those days industrial plants did not use lock-out techniques (known in French as cadenessage) to ensure that equipment could not accidentally be put into motion while workers were in vulnerable situations, such as when they were repairing a machine. Since that time when workers needed to maintain a piece of equipment such as a paper machine, the maintenance worker physically locks the control panel and keeps the key with him to ensure that nobody can accidentally start it up. A beautiful stained glass window in remembrance of Gilly was commissioned and initially located in the Anglican chapel in Riverbend. Later it was moved to the Sir William Price Museum in Kenogami where it is found today at one end of the chapel facing the stained glass window made in memory of Sir William Price at the other end. Ida worked as a teacher to support herself and Gil and was Vice-Principal at the High School of Quebec for many years. She spent the summers running a shop in Metis Beach and sent Gil to Sedburgh School near Montebello. After retirement, she went into real estate in Montreal. She died in 1990. Gil married Gayle Lennon and had two sons, Andrew Gilmour in 1970 and Peter Llewellyn in 1972. Gil later moved to Constable, N.Y. near Cornwall, Ont., and was remarried to a woman named Lady. He died in 2019 after picking up a disease in the Philippines. As a postlude to the tragedy of Gilmour’s death, Ida and her grandsons Andrew and Peter were part of the Saguenay tour prior to the 1992 Price Family reunion in Tadoussac. While in Kenogami, Ida had an emotional meeting with the woman, a former employee of Price Brothers, who had brought her the news of Gilmour’s death over fifty years before. Greville Price Back to ALL Bios

A family most remembered for the 3 front windows of the church in memory of their infant daughter, Jessie Whitley, Lt.-Col. Frederick Whitley & Jessie (Chouler) & daughter Jessie Margaret Whitely A family most remembered for the 3 front windows of the church in memory of their infant daughter, Jessie Back to ALL Bios Jessie Margaret Whitley - 1882 Most of us who attend services at the chapel have probably read the inscription beneath the front windows of the chapel hundreds of times. It is both sad and funny. Read by itself, the left-hand window reads “To the Glory of God … died at Tadoussac, August” which may draw a smile to the faces of the faithful who never subscribed to the “God is Dead” movement of the 1960s. But to read across the three windows as we are expected to do, we learn of a baby who died in 1882 at the age of five months. There is sadness, and we can only wonder, well over a hundred years later, about the reason for the child’s death and the sorrow it must have inflicted on the family and friends, but particularly to her parents. Jessie Margaret was born on February 27th and baptized on April 7th of the same year in which she died and, while named after her mother and her maternal grandmother, the family actually called her Daisy. She died on August 3rd in Tadoussac, and was buried on August 5th in Montreal. Her father was Frederick Whitley who was the son of John Whitley and Sophie Hardy of “La Solitude”, St. Martin’s Parish, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was educated at Victoria College, St. Helier’s, Jersey and at Dijon, France, and came to Montreal around 1873-1874. Frederick was first employed in the firm of Thomas Samuel and Company, then established the firm Fred’k, Whitley and Co. Leather Importers, importing high quality leather mostly from England. He served as an officer in the Montreal Garrison Artillery and was later transferred to the Montreal Squadron of Cavalry (about 1896), which became the Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars. He was also very interested in the Church of England, was a Lay Reader in the Diocese of Montreal, and was Superintendent of St. Martin's and St. James the Apostle's Sunday schools. Frederick returned to England in 1877 to marry Jessie Chouler and brought her back to Canada with him. She was the daughter of Christopher Chouler and Margaret Wilson of London, England. Her father, Christopher Chouler, was a member of the firm of Howell’s, Drapers, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. He was the son of Christopher and Mary Chouler, Falcon Lodge, Althorp Park, Northampton. (That Christopher, Jessie’s grandfather, was the Estate Manager of Althorp, Princess Diana’s family estate.) Together, Frederick and Jessie had five children: Frederick, Henry, Ernest, Elsie and Jessie. Frederick and Jessie’s son, Frederick, became an Anglican priest, married, and had one daughter, Ruth, who never married. It was in about 1941 that he gave the brass candlesticks on the altar in the chapel in memory of his parents. Frederick died in 1914, just before WW I and his wife Jessie died in 1940. Ernest joined his father in business. He married Gertrude McGill and had one daughter, Barbara Jane Whitley, who was never married. She was well-known at the Montreal General Hospital where she volunteered for sixty years. She also started the Whithearn Foundation, a family foundation that was set up to fund research on diseases and disorders of the eye. Barbara passed away at the age of one hundred in 2018 but remembered Tadoussac very well and provided this family information just before she died. Henry also worked with his father. He and his wife had one daughter Phyllis Rosamond, who married Ralph Collyer and had three children – John, Peter, and Jane (Wandell). Phyllis passed away in 2002, in her ninety-first year at St. Lambert, Quebec. Her daughter, Jane Wandell, is currently a director of the above-mentioned Whithearn Foundation which her aunt, Barbara Whitley, founded. Elsie married C.S. Bann and had one child, Joan, who married Gordon Rutherford and had one child - Hugh. The youngest child was Jessie, usually called Daisy, whom we remember in the chapel’s front windows. Cynthia Price, Karen Molson, Alan Evans Back to ALL Bios

A tireless volunteer, Tim was devoted to his family and to Tadoussac Ballantyne, Tim A tireless volunteer, Tim was devoted to his family and to Tadoussac Back to ALL Bios Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne (“Tim”) Mar. 19,1931 to Feb. 6, 2005 Tim was born in Montreal to Charles T. Ballantyne and Rosalie J. Ballantyne. He was educated at Lower Canada College in Montreal and Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville. Tim attended university in Switzerland and at McGill in Montreal. Tim’s time in Tadoussac began in 1958 when he married Joan Williams whose family had summered in Tad for generations. Prior to meeting Joan, Tim was a loyal St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick, summer resident. As is no surprise to anyone, Tim was easily persuaded to spend his summer holidays in Tadoussac, and he joined Joan and their subsequent three children, Evan, Timothy, and Belle for a two-week vacation each year. Tim and the family enjoyed the ease and splendor of several summer homes in Tadoussac including The Barn, Tudor-Hart House, and Brynhyfryd. Tim, Joan and their children lived in Montreal, Canada until 1967. They moved to Scarsdale, New York, when Tim received a job transfer with Consolidated Bathurst Paper Company. Tim was a dedicated volunteer in his home community; he served for many years as the Captain of Scarsdale’s Volunteer Fire Company; he was a vestryman and eucharistic minister at the Church of St. James the Less. He coached school sports, was a troop leader for Boy Scouts, and taught Sunday school. When Tim chose to relax a bit, it was usually accompanied by something most people would find most unappealing, a WARM beer! Tim had an inviting and dazzling smile. He relished a keen wit, touched with sarcasm. Tim loved Tadoussac’s waters. For him, lake swims, a snorkel in the Saguenay, or a quick dip off Moulin Baude were all annual summer activities. The frigid temperatures never fazed him. When on land, Tim served the summertime population as Vice President of the Tadoussac Protestant Chapel. Tim was an avid reader who was especially drawn to historical works. When Tim became infirm, he could still be found in a cozy wicker chair or sunning himself outdoors accompanied by a book. Tim was often interrupted in his learned pursuits by his seven grandchildren romping about Brynhyfryd. Heather, William, Megan, David, Lauren, Timothy, and Trevor effortlessly caused Tim’s focus to waver! Tim is missed by his family and friends. Back to ALL Bios