By clicking on the names of my Aunts and Uncle above you will read the stories that they have passed on to us about their experiences as a child in Canada and in Fall River, Massachusetts. We are fortunate that these seven of the seventeen children born to my grandmother have taken the time to write these stories so that we might read and appreciate their thoughts, fears, joys and hopes  as they lived it in the early 1900s.

    A very religious Roman  Catholic, French speaking family, the Bouffards left their home and farm in Issoudun, P.Q., Canada in 1918 to start a new life in the mill town of Fall River, Massachusetts. Life was tough on the farm, as you will read and they hoped for a better life here in the United States, some working the looms in the cotton mills. This is our heritage, all the decendants of Gaudias and Alvine and why we are here in the USA today.

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