Dans un Petit Village

 To be fair, it is time to write about my mother's side of the family, the Voyer family and of course I will start with my mother. Unlike my father, I knew who my mother was. Marie Anne Gemma Voyer was born on July 7, 1918 in Quebec City, Quebec . You could say that my mother was a war baby to put her birth into perspective. World War I was approaching its end. The Allies were about to break the deadlock on the Western Front and the beginning of The 100 Days Offensive to the end of the war was not far off. A week after my mother was born The last German offensive of WWI, the Marne - Reims Offensive was to begin. The Allies had full knowledge of this offensive and the German offensive was crushed. Also, a week after my mother's birth the Czar Nicholas and his entire family was murdered by the Bolsheviks . Of course, when my mother was born no one knew that these events would happen. You could say that my mother was born during turbulent times. My mother was born into a ...

Who is Gildore Parent? That was the question that I kept asking myself when I realized that Maurice Gauvin was not my father. Who is Gildore Parent? Fortunately, my newly found cousin, Leonard Parent, actually remembered something of Gildore. It was not a lot but at least it was something. Leonard is about ten years older than me so he would he would remember things that I would not even be aware of and he did meet my father many times when he was young. Leonard told me that my father was very friendly, he like to talk and he told Leonard stories about the war. He told me that my father stayed on in France after the war and was part of a clean up crew. I am not sure that entailed but I imagine that there was plenty of cleaning up to do after the war. My father told Leonard that the French were very happy that Canadian soldiers were helping them and because my father could speak French he got along quite well with the French. he also said that they had very good wine. Leonard told me ...