Sainte-Cécile de Whitton
Parish of Saint-Hubert-de-Spaulding
and this town was renamed
under the nameAudet
Part
Morin
Colonization developed there with great difficulty, at the cost of many sacrifices and privations; the lack of communication with the outside world went very painful condition of these hardy pioneers.Their courage and intelligence had guided them to a floor superior. They knew admirably choose a favored point of nature, a well wooded area dotted with lakes, mountains, springs, rivers; but they were nevertheless sequestered, isolated from the world by the absence of roads.
Rosary with family
This disadvantage did not prevent them to move in a wonderful way, and when the Quebec government built a road through St.Cecilia,everybody was surprised to find a chapel, advanced farms, and important buildings a population totaling a few hundred souls. Needless to say, these generous and devoted hearts, these noble soldiers of the finest of causes, showed themselves grateful to all those who, by helping to provide them with the benefits of this path, had put an end to their loneliness, their captivity . and provided a new era of prosperity to their budding parish
Here's how Sister Albertine Morin,daughter of David Morin, describes our first settler in 1982: "Since I am the oldest of the surviving family and Frédéric Morin I had the pleasure of knowing the grandfather David Morin,I am pleased to draw a sketch of the personality of this old man with long white hair and abundant white beard too ... especially for this younger generations. In addition to an honest and peaceful nature, what kindness was in this man.
For his grandchildren, he possessed a reserve of tenderness knew manifest itself in many ways. You I would even say that his long beard no longer belonged to him when the fancy grandchildren drove them to the weave. What about the loving exchanges that smaller multiplied, given kisses he undertook to remit here is a very childish business to which he submitted cheerfully. Play cards with him was a supreme reward. The "Four Seven," was then in vogue, and he knew all the tricks.
Call and response
When he was a "Poulitaine" he sang the song of the chicken, but never twice in the same tone, which made us laugh full. During the last years of his life, his rosary never left him. We could go home at any time, and we were sure to find her rosary in hand. If you asked him, "why, Grandpa, do you always say your rosary" We invariably reply: "This is for you other small strip inconvenient"friendship.
For us it was a response and we still embrace. He would miss an important point if I did not point his fidelity to recite the Angelus: the first shots of church bells, he stopped, as I saw him once in the middle of a staircase, it recite this prayer in Latin, please This was the language of the church and we confirmed it as best we could "Oremous?" Today, we call that "speaking in tongues ". He was sure that the Lord will understand, and that was enough. But it was that very pious grandfather David, will you tell me. Yes, it certainly has held high the torch of the Faith. Remain worthy of him; it awaits us up there.
"David Morin was born 18 March 1832 in Saint-Henri-de-Lévis, son of Henry and Rose Morin Paradis. He married on 28 January 1856 in Lambton, Cecile Fortier, born in Saint-Henri-de-Lévis, whose Michel Fortier parents and wife Angela Bouffard in Lambton remained for several years.
Lambton, Quebec
From their union were born six children Henriette Morin, born November 6, 1856 in Lambton, Celina Morin, born in 1858, Léon Morin, born in 1860, Oliva Morin, born May 30, 1861, Mary Morin, born April 14, 1864, Frédéric Morin, born 18 May 1866 in Lambton. At that time, the parish of Saint-Henri already had a century of existence; land were scarce, young people moved away. It is these intrepid colonists, who formed many of our parishes in the Eastern Townships Eastern Townships. David, who was in that line of young pioneers, was able to choose the "ideal" woman who could remain in agreement with the ideas he had about life. At St. Cecilia where they are set.
This couple full of hope came in 1870, laying the foundation of the parish drag on their names. Like all colonists of then, they arrive with the only resources of their arms and their courage. David is 38 and has 45 Cecilia and their six children from 4 to 14 years. In the beginning, before a building is made for entertaining family, grandfather has built a small "camp", it was necessary to heat it.
The colon, fiery and strong, hand, range 5 Saint-Romain (9-10000) walk through the forest, with a stove two bridges on the back. The disassembled parts placed in a bag, are damning for the shoulders but there is no other means of transport before the opening of the roads passable with the horse; and these paths was the settler who took care, roads are not helping. Really, it was not convenient for refueling. We were told that spring, the snow was slow to disappear, that there was no possible transportation route and there were only flour for food. For three weeks, no bread, no potatoes, impossible to make the necessary leaven the dough.
We cooked a sauce of species that looked more like glue paste, the only possible food. Where were gourmets? However, not one died! For the pioneer, forest, soil, it is the survival of elements. But it is slowly that cultivation, animal husbandry bring him sustenance and even ease. To be fertile, the land is demanding. Early morning she leaves her man's bed and heels until evening. This is the price that the farmer takes root, stabilizes "kingdom". Also, this laborious life, obscure, without research and without history is however because of the wisdom that we so admired among our ancestors.
St-Romain
The first batch David Morin has chosen is almost in the center of the parish; the church was built less than a mile from this place on rank 6 and 7. He took on this ground the space to make the road to Saint-Romain. The second pioneer, François Roy chooses the neighboring lot on the other side of the road. Soon after, other settlers are added, and this part of the row becomes "the village."
So they called these few 15 acres, filled with 12 farm owners including several large families, all of buzzing 'awake children. Also, there was a school of about thirty students in the "warm nest". Today, it is very sad to see, there is almost nothing in this animation. Barely two lands were sold and eventually sold to a "large" farmer.
Some houses and barns are finally missing the only sole owner is the large crop field. One even see traces of houses. How different from the spirit of a hundred years ago! Yet the sources of life will always be: family first and we had to stabilize rural classes.
Returning to the grandfather. His simple life, laborious, continues. He works hard to improve his land and with his son, they make fit for cultivation other two lots which will become their property. David is also interested in development of the colony which increased significantly; it attracts his brothers-the Fortier, one moved to the forefront, "The tongue" and other five chose good lots in the ranks 8 and 9. These famines "Fortier" are still there; that is sustainable wealth for the parish. Their descendants could crown their noble past by a successful and fruitful future!
Farm for Audet
In the early years, they could not attend Mass on Sunday, but it was a day of rest. In 1879, they seek and obtain the services of a priest. Even in his old age, grandfather speaks fondly of the privilege he has so well appreciated: his faith; it was so deep. In 1882, it was the construction of the chapel, May 7, 1883 saw the first mass. In 1898 the present church was built. Everyone went about his gifts and his labor.
Long after, they had to listen to these "old" who counted on a little bit of pride, what they had done to their church donations large pieces of pine for the frame, the sandpit, parts such donations lengths for other columns that were polished to the flat, etc. All this well illustrated the good spirit that reigned parish. David Morin was the first warden in charge. He did not prevail: first pioneer, first churchwarden, it did not change his humble behaviorwife;.
During1894,David Morin had the pain of losing his incomparable in 1895, his daughter lost six children, which deeply affected the old grandfather. Then in 1897, it was his son Leon and the following year, his daughter Oliva which left a large family. All these painful mourning and sometimes superhuman efforts that life has requested have exhausted his strength. Around 1900, he retired to the village with his daughter Mary. The old sacristy, he buys the factory, became his home. It has been years of peace, rest, close to the church, and his rosary in his hand.
Then one day, his daughter Mary, who nevertheless gave his life to care for her elderly father, agrees to marry at the age of 48 years. The husband wants to follow his father's daughter. The poor father, already ill, submits to the exodus so hard his heart. Leave his parish, his church, his friends, although there is more in the other world, bored of his grandchildren who will not be around to cuddle. After the toil of the day in his life, he bows to the will of God.
Immersed in a great renunciation, he will end his days in Piopolis. Barely two years later, he returned to his final resting place at his home in Sainte-Cécile. He had kept a smile, strangely sweet! He was buried in its cemetery, with his countrymen, he had laid out. It was July 27, 1914. I did not know my grandmother Cecile.
Mom, after his marriage, lived more than a year with his in-laws. She often talked about his stepmother she loved and greatly appreciated. Never, she said, I saw her changing mood. Moreover, it was very strong and helped a lot to the fields. At that time there was still a "piece" slash for sowing. There, all the work is done by hand. Thus, for the potatoes that were planted to "mule" and grain mow with a sickle.
In this work, "we did not know a man who managed to follow it, we have repeated uncles and aunts. It was an extraordinary woman! People today know they senna seed potatoes in giblets? These beaker to collect enough land to make a small "mule"; it inserts three or four orderlies "potato sprouts." I myself, with Dad, does this kind of seed, and this year, for a bushel of "germs", we had harvested 85 bushels of beautiful white potatoes, washed well "in wood ash."
Grandma was also very skilled in making clothes; she sewed the small needle. She had no sewing machine. In his pride and his love of good work, she never bought handkerchiefs because, she said, "It's too bad actually." She loved hemming itself in small imperceptible and many regular points, from what mom said that who so admired. It is a tribute to the courage, endurance, natural psychology of the woman to none.
The first house of David Morin was built of logs in a cleared lean where abounded rocks "but quality rocks, related to granite quarries near "made of long pieces of spruce hewn, caulked the cracks with oakum. Later, the walls were covered boards. And he made to foundations, masonry and cut beautiful stones taken on the ground near the house. After 70 years, still solid, it was moved in range 5 which, although in ruins in 1982, still existedus.
Speaking of Frédéric Morin, son of David, she told I would be remiss not to know how to younger generations it, who could neither read nor write, was strong in arithmetic; it just was prodigious! When the class, they gave us problems as homework to do, we were explaining to him and he always gave us the correct answer, even with fractions. Asked the solution, he said, you have the answer, arrange with your "solutions"".
We worked hard to find the seal because the teacher, of course, required that the whole operation is to find the detail response "(or result). When was the construction of the rectory of St. Cecilia, was transported sand and gravel "banneaux" of different dimensions, someone took note of the charge and handed to Mr Curé Dodier. When there was a certain amount, it was Frédéric come to the rectory to let him calculate the cubic content of these materials, so that everyone is paid in fairness. The parish priest spared his time and his papers because he had it all in his head. Have we no right to be proud of our ancestors, she says!
Pierre Fortier and Suphérine Cameron
We can say that with five generations Fortier in Sainte-Cecile, we go back to the first settlers arrived in the parish. Pierre Fortier, born in Saint-Romain in 1831 and died in Sainte-Cécile September 2, 1920, at the age of 89 years; he married, in Winslow (Stornoway), Suphérine Cameron, born in 1835 and died in Sainte-Cécile in April 1903, at the age of 68.descendants.
These ancestors gave 14 Alma (Baptiste Nadeau), Oliva (France Duquette ), Pierre (Marie-Louise and Ida Chenette), Marie Joseph Guay), Caroline (Napoleon Beaudry), Alexander (Zelia Godbout), Octavia (Adolphe Lemay), Georges (Azilida Roy), Michel, Obéline (Louis Blais), Joseph , Thomas (Marie-Louise Plant), Alyre (Maria Beaulé) and Napoleon.
The family moved to St. Cecilia and settled on a homestead to 1884. Peter was recognized by his peers for the ease with which he could get Lots of "government". He took the opportunity to clear the rank 9 in order to install his son. In the 1889 census, it had 100 acres of land on Lot 6, Range 8, a value of $ 300 and 100 acres of land on Lot 29, Range 3, a $ 100 value.
Francis Xavier Roy and Suphérine Chamberland
François-Xavier Roy, a native of Saint-Vallier, then arrives in the East of the Hautes-Appalaches section or successively Lambton, Saint-Romain and finally to St. Cecilia. In 1861, Francis Xavier is considered resident of Lambton during his marriage Suphérine Chamberland, in the parish of Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse.
How he traveled the road to Saint-Vallier in Lambton? The distance between these two points is about 160 km. How come? With other settlers leaving around Saint-Vallier! Here's what brings the Abbot Nazaire Leclerc, missionary in Lambton in 1851: "After several days of most painful march thirty inhabitants arrived more dead than alive, all covered with mud, saying that death is a hundred times better than exile.
"ButFrancis and Suphérine resident shortly in Lambton, since the found in St-Romain, at the baptism of their first Amédé between Francis in 1864.
Then they are domiciled in the rank 1, Northeast in Saint-Romain. In 1871, an official census, they reside in Saint-Romain. During the years preceding its establishment in Sainte-Cecile, François-Xavier travels on foot many times the road to Saint-Romain in Sainte-Cécile. He carries his supplies on its back for clearing stays, slash and construction of the first residence to establish her family"Northeast".
Mont Sainte-Cécile
This is the path followed from his land to the rank 1, He direct access to the first route to St. Cecilia. It bypasses the Mont Sainte-Cécile in the southwest, up to rank 5, to arrive at the North Fork of the lot 9, Range 6, Northeast.
He runs his lot to meet the ranks 6 and 7. The site chosen for the future residence is on a slight rise near the tip Northeast. It is reasonable to believe that François-Xavier participated in the opening of a carriage road at the time for better access to new land. In the 1871 census, it then has two oxen to cultivate the land. In the census of 10 September 1889, he has 200 acres of land in the ranks 5 and 6, Lot 9, worth $ 610.
Honoré and Marie Bouffard Duquette
Mr. Duquette Honoré was born September 14, 1838 in Saint-Henri-de Lauzon. By the 1860s, he moved to Saint-Romain. Mr. Duquette was married to Marie Bouffard, March 5, 1864, in Stratford. They moved and settled in the rank 7 in Sainte-Cécile. On October 14, 1878, instead of chapel1e is over, the eight acres of land was given by MM. Honoré and Ferdinand Duquette. Mr. Duquette was member of the first municipal council formed January 28, 1890. He was also secretary of the first session of the School Board, August 16, 1891.
Ms. Bouffard Duquette and had 14 children. Mr. Duquette died June 18, 1913 in Sainte-Cécile and Ms. Duquette died Oct. 20, 1918, also in Sainte-Cécile. In the census of September 10, 1889, he owned 96 acres of land in range 7, Lot 15, a value of $ 300.
On 7 September 1911, here's what wrote Mgr. Paul LaRocque, Bishop of Sherbrooke: "You know the great changes that have occurred in your parish since its origin, then you were a small number of settlers in the middle of the jungle. Today, this small number of settlers has increased to the point of forming a large and beautiful parish.
At that time, the cultivation of cereals was the only source of income of the population, changes in the method of cultivation make the cultivation of grain is, as it were, an accessory on the farm. It is to hay production, which allows the breeding of cattle for meat or milk production, which now tends the work of most farmers.
Funny fact narrated by Georges-Émile Roy
One Sunday, Mr. Célestin Cameron, resident of Range 9, was absent from home because he had left with relatives. Guys Christmas and those of Jérémy Roy Cameron come to visit Celestin. Seeing that it was not home, he still decides to leave a souvenir of their visit.
They harnessed beef, which was in the barn, on the picturesque promenade of car Mr. Célestin, who was a man proud of his car and took jealous care. Imagine the spectacle. When the ox was yoked, they settled in the car for a walk, but the beef did not take the right direction. It enligne in the enclosed grazing, through the tillers alder; impossible to stop. Finally, the car remained clinging to alder tillers and beef took the wood with the hitch on the back. Players towers, seeing that all was not quite as they planned, hurry to bring the car to his place before the return of Celestine. But the beef was gone. They escaped with the car repaired and erase the traces of their turn.
Opening Spaulding Township
In its internal organization, the municipality of United Townships Ditchfield Spaulding and change its name 18 April 1959 to that of the municipality of Frontenac, which now has 1,573 inhabitants, called Frontenaçois and Frontenaçoises. This will take us several changes in our region.
Who of us has not at one time or another, stopped his car at the edge of the road to admire some landscapes so special to our parish? Have we not already experienced this feeling of pride and belonging to the view of all the wonders offered by our region? We live in one of the most beautiful regions of Quebec, the Appalachians. So let's be proud of it because our ancestors sweated hard to leave us these valuable assets.
Appalachian Trail
Spaulding Township is located in the township southeast of the province, in the Eastern Townships. Is bounded by the river northwest Chaudière and southeast by the American lines that were determined by water pouring or north to Canada and south to the United States. The dividing line between US borders (Boundry) is 6 miles long.
From the northeast side Risboraugh Township and south-west by the municipality of Frontenac. Today the township has a width of 6000 and beyond and an irregular length ± 9000. Name of the township proclaimed in 1868, evokes a city of the English Lincolnshire, north of Peterborough. This is one of the highest locations in Quebec. 
A country made of rivers and mountains with an altitude of 325 meters at the lowest level and the highest point of observation to over 725 meters. The center of the village perched on a high plateau overlooking the area to 535 meters. What an amazing view we have on the area!
Spaulding Township has three mountains is MountDostie (653 meters) in honor of Dostie mayor who lived at the foot of Mount Mount Round Top (± 100 meters ) an American influence name and the mountain of Porcupine (± 725 meters) in form and majestic pines that grew there in early colonization. It also features three major rivers is the Kokombis (Amerindian), Samson (English origin) and by boiler as a boiler arriving near Quebec City.
School ofranking
Education
Today we have in Quebec a well organized school system. Using taxes and taxes, the government is responsible for collecting money to then redistribute it to various ministries including the Ministry of Education. This department is responsible for managing the entire school system. This takes care of transferring money to school boards, which in turn undertake to employ teachers and to pay for a hotel. The school system has not always been well organized.
In the 18th century the population of the Beauce was small; and in 1762 there were only 730 inhabitants. Because of the climate and poor roads, it was painful for children to move. The majority of people living in poverty and it was difficult to find teachers. This situation has hampered the establishment of schools in Beauce. Education was at that time a luxury that only wealthy families could afford because we had to bring a teacher in the city. Before 1800, there were no schools in the Beauce.
These are the priests who had to look after themselves teaching. They gave, in their presbytery, some playing, writing, arithmetic and especially the catechism to prepare children for their first communion. The family also played a role in education. Indeed, it was often the mothers who tell their children the knowledge they had themselves learned.
The first school appeared in Sainte-Marie in 1814. The first master of the school was teaching in his home four hours a day. The subjects taught were French, Latin and English. In the 1820s, other schools have emerged but few children attended. Several families were too poor, they could spend money for education. Even if "the education is free, construction and maintenance of school houses remain the responsibility of the inhabitants"
In 1824, a law was passed. This law allowed factories to contribute to the establishment and maintenance of schools by giving them a quarter of their annual revenue. School management was done by the factories.
In 1829, another law was passed. It gave Parliament the authority in the field of education. In each county, the members were engaged in distributing the money needed for school operations. From that moment, the school became available to all children as the poorest were educated free. Between 1831 and 1836 the number of schools in Sainte-Marie from 8 to 35. Unfortunately, this law was abolished in 1836 and many schools have had to close their doors.
School rank abandoned
In 1841, we witnessed the establishment of our first public education system. Each municipal district was responsible to collect taxes and redistribute them to different schools. In the back of the commissioners, elected by the people, who took care to hire teachers, to adopt the curricula and textbooks.
"In 1846, the school tax became mandatory in order to encourage parents to send their children to school." This tax imposed provoked a strong reaction in most people. Many parents prefer to keep their children at home rather than pay the tax. Several schools have closed. At St. Francis (Beauceville), people have gone so far set fire to schools. The authorities had not only put out fires in schools but also the wrath of the Beauce. This was the "war of extinguishers." It took until 1851 before the situation returns to normal. The first school inspectors have been appointed and the number of schools has increased slowly. 
Over the years appeared many small rural schools attended by boys and girls. In villages, we have rather attended the building convents for girls' education and colleges for boys.
Schoolhouse abandoned
girls could study home economics. The school system very quickly preparing girls for their future role of mother and wife.
In 1943, a law made it mandatory school attendance. The number of students increased and new schools had to be built. The education system has continued into the 1960s.
From that moment, we become more and more aware of the importance of education for the future. Girls, like boys, needed proper training to Quebec society of the time. Versatile and CEGEPs have appeared-.
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