Dans un Petit Village

We arrive at the ' école de la côte des Pères' , the old schoolhouse at 3425 chemin Royal, a short walk just west of the Maison Alexis - Parent at 3525 - 3527 chemin Royal. The 'école de la côte des Pères' is a private residence now but it was once a schoolhouse. In 1844, Queen Victoria awarded a commision to George Louis Lemoine, a priest, and Captain Alexis Georgeville in Beauport. The location bordered on the lands that belonged to the Jesuits at that time, Domaine Notre-Dame-des Anges . Within the year George Louis Lemoine and Captain Alexis Georgeville began construction on the first school in Giffard (Beauport), the school that was to be known as 'école de la côte des Pères'. I should clarify that up to the middle of the twentieth century the Catholic Church controlled and was deeply involved in education, especially at the primary school level. It makes perfect sense that the Jesuits would provide the land for the school commissioned by Queen Vi

The Alexis Parent House is not as magnificent as the Marguerite Marie Parent house but it is not any less interesting. For the Marguerite Marie Parent house there was a lot of information that was not that difficult to find with a little work. For the Alexis Parent house all I had was a name, an address and an old picture from 1920 of the house. Using the information that we had, my wife and I found the house. I took pictures of the house and the historical plaque above that was attached to the outside wall of the house. Alexis Parent was born on July 17, 1840. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of Joseph Parent (1807) and Marguerite Belanger (1797). It is interesting to note that Marguerite was ten years older than Joseph, there is another story here to be explored. Alexis married Adele Paquet (1852) on August 2, 1869. Alex was twenty - nine years old and Adele was only seventeen years which was not all that unusual in those days. Alexis and Adele had five children Ledia,

I barely know where to begin. Last week, my wife and I had the opportunity to spend a weekend in Beauport , Quebec. We arrived Friday evening and had time to settle into our hotel room for the evening. We purposely chose a hotel near the historic area of Beauport. It was not a great hotel but the location was perfect for our purposes. Our goal was to visit all of the sites related to the Parent family and visit the graveyard that was most closely associated with the Parent family. On Saturday morning we had a quick breakfast of coffee from McDonalds and pastries purchased from Premiere Moisson in Montreal before we drove to Beauport the day before. Fortunately, Saturday was a perfect day for a historical/genealogical walking tour of Beauport; it was sunny and warm. There were many sites and buildings that we visited last Saturday, June 1st. I will write about only one or two of them in each post to keep the post reasonably short. We also visited the two oldest cemeteries in Beaupo