The story of Simpson
Township Simpson looks like this one, but as it was pie rreux, it consisted of Numb
stances and savannas as mature forests, it was not coveted by young farmers.
In the 1800s, few young people have settled, but many entrepreneurs have leased forest land to make cuts white tree (pine, ash, hemlock, maple etc ...) to float the logs on the St. Francis to Pierreville where they were headed intact or sawn to Quebec and England. Between 1890 and 1900, regional historian Claude Verrier spotted no fewer than nine different sites in Simpson's best-known entrepreneurs are Joseph Caramel (Nicolet), Ovide Brouillard and Valentine Cooke (the cousin of Bishop Cooke
Trois-Rivières) of Drummondville.
To carry all this wood up the St. Francis Cooke and associates have built a railroad that went from the river to the 9th place of Simpson. Later this section was sold to CN and is part of the Montreal-Quebec-Halifax.
As and when the lots are "liberated" from their trees, they were offered for sale by its owner. So our great-grand-p `re Joseph Houle purchased in the late 1800's Lot No. 10 from 6th place to establish Simpson's three sons: Adelard and Urban Dositheus. At their wedding, the three took their son Lot section where they raised their family.
Township Simpson looks like this one, but as it was pie rreux, it consisted of Numb
stances and savannas as mature forests, it was not coveted by young farmers. In the 1800s, few young people have settled, but many entrepreneurs have leased forest land to make cuts white tree (pine, ash, hemlock, maple etc ...) to float the logs on the St. Francis to Pierreville where they were headed intact or sawn to Quebec and England. Between 1890 and 1900, regional historian Claude Verrier spotted no fewer than nine different sites in Simpson's best-known entrepreneurs are Joseph Caramel (Nicolet), Ovide Brouillard and Valentine Cooke (the cousin of Bishop Cooke
Trois-Rivières) of Drummondville. To carry all this wood up the St. Francis Cooke and associates have built a railroad that went from the river to the 9th place of Simpson. Later this section was sold to CN and is part of the Montreal-Quebec-Halifax.
As and when the lots are "liberated" from their trees, they were offered for sale by its owner. So our great-grand-p `re Joseph Houle purchased in the late 1800's Lot No. 10 from 6th place to establish Simpson's three sons: Adelard and Urban Dositheus. At their wedding, the three took their son Lot section where they raised their family.
As the road that served lots of rows 6 and 7 was the same (row) people have got used to name this road "The large 7" when he should have been called "The Way of the 6th and 7th rows of Simpson." Settled around the Saint-Cyr, Ali (Allie) Lyon, etc..
In 1901, when formed the parish and the municipality of Saint-Lucien, Lot of 3 brothers Houle was the last of St. Cyril in that range.
By 1930 at the time of crisis, Urban decided to leave the U.S. with his family and sold his lot to our grandfather. It has borrowed money to pay but because of the crisis economic, could not repay the loans with a 2 $ 1500 and another $ 600. He had to declare bankruptcy in May 1932 and his two lands were sold at auction at the church door. He then departed for Saint-Hyacinthe with grandmother, Marie-Rose (19 years old, my mother), Alice, Agenor (Brother Hubert) Fridolin and Lucien, the oldest of which your mother Yvonne Germaine Maurice Donat remaining to RVD or region.
By Gerald Prince / Monday, April 13, 2009
By Gerald Prince / Monday, April 13, 2009
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