Damien Terriault met Maria Desmarais in Vercheres Quebec while he was studying to be a Dentist there. He was from Montreal, and when they married they moved to the Island. They had 16 children in total, with 11 living past infancy and into adulthood.
She played the harp which her husband and children loved to hear and she played it every evening after dinner to a crowded audience in the parlor. Her children always thought of her as 'the angel' and who could fault them. Her daughter Yvonne came home with the dreaded influenza that took so many lives in 1918-1919 and while nursing her she fell ill and died.
She was my Grandmother, I never knew her, but heard many wonderful stories from my father and his siblings.
I should also add that my father told me that she had been the only girl in her family, she had 9 brothers. Vercheres is a very long way from Montreal, if you don't own a car, so visiting was a hardship. My grandmother's family were a part of the famous rowboat building family from that area. I never met anyone from that family, but we visited Vercheres in 1965 and there's a street named my father's family name. I doubt it had anything to do with us, but it was neat.
The Terriault family is very thankful to Edda Meinikat for graceously sponsoring Maria Desmarais page. Thank you Edda!
She played the harp which her husband and children loved to hear and she played it every evening after dinner to a crowded audience in the parlor. Her children always thought of her as 'the angel' and who could fault them. Her daughter Yvonne came home with the dreaded influenza that took so many lives in 1918-1919 and while nursing her she fell ill and died.
She was my Grandmother, I never knew her, but heard many wonderful stories from my father and his siblings.
I should also add that my father told me that she had been the only girl in her family, she had 9 brothers. Vercheres is a very long way from Montreal, if you don't own a car, so visiting was a hardship. My grandmother's family were a part of the famous rowboat building family from that area. I never met anyone from that family, but we visited Vercheres in 1965 and there's a street named my father's family name. I doubt it had anything to do with us, but it was neat.
The Terriault family is very thankful to Edda Meinikat for graceously sponsoring Maria Desmarais page. Thank you Edda!
Damien Terriault met Maria Desmarais in Vercheres Quebec while he was studying to be a Dentist there. He was from Montreal, and when they married they moved to the Island. They had 16 children in total, with 11 living past infancy and into adulthood.
She played the harp which her husband and children loved to hear and she played it every evening after dinner to a crowded audience in the parlor. Her children always thought of her as 'the angel' and who could fault them. Her daughter Yvonne came home with the dreaded influenza that took so many lives in 1918-1919 and while nursing her she fell ill and died.
She was my Grandmother, I never knew her, but heard many wonderful stories from my father and his siblings.
I should also add that my father told me that she had been the only girl in her family, she had 9 brothers. Vercheres is a very long way from Montreal, if you don't own a car, so visiting was a hardship. My grandmother's family were a part of the famous rowboat building family from that area. I never met anyone from that family, but we visited Vercheres in 1965 and there's a street named my father's family name. I doubt it had anything to do with us, but it was neat.
The Terriault family is very thankful to Edda Meinikat for graceously sponsoring Maria Desmarais page. Thank you Edda!
She played the harp which her husband and children loved to hear and she played it every evening after dinner to a crowded audience in the parlor. Her children always thought of her as 'the angel' and who could fault them. Her daughter Yvonne came home with the dreaded influenza that took so many lives in 1918-1919 and while nursing her she fell ill and died.
She was my Grandmother, I never knew her, but heard many wonderful stories from my father and his siblings.
I should also add that my father told me that she had been the only girl in her family, she had 9 brothers. Vercheres is a very long way from Montreal, if you don't own a car, so visiting was a hardship. My grandmother's family were a part of the famous rowboat building family from that area. I never met anyone from that family, but we visited Vercheres in 1965 and there's a street named my father's family name. I doubt it had anything to do with us, but it was neat.
The Terriault family is very thankful to Edda Meinikat for graceously sponsoring Maria Desmarais page. Thank you Edda!
