This story of our
trip to Canada half done. It is still being constructed and pages
will be added as they are completed, so if you want, you can start it now and
return at a later time when it will be done. Thanks, Gerry
It was mid summer of
1995 and not having planned a vacation, normally a week of camping at
Moosemeadow Campground in Willington, Connecticut, I decided it would be a good
time to take my two sons Daniel and Tim to Quebec, Canada. Being that I hadn't
been there since high school graduation in 1959 with my parents Albert and Marie
Louise, and always having the desire to return, I knew that I was ready for this
trip. This time with a little more knowledge of my roots since I had been
working on the family tree for quite a while, but lacking the history and
stories recounted to me by my parents and relatives we visited on that trip. 
A big part of that
trip in 1959 is that we always slept at relatives homes and conversed about old
times. Relatives we visited and stayed with then were in Montreal, Shawinigan
Falls, Quebec, Drummondville and St Tit-des-Caps, with an overnight stay at
Manchester, New Hampshire.
The morning of August
6, 1995 we left Manchester, CT at 6:10am heading north on Interstate 91,
reaching Brattleboro, VT at 7:32am, White River Junction, VT at 8:30am and
reached the Canadian border at 10:25am. Light rain on and off
most of the way up did not deter our progress. I did take a wrong turn at Magog
and headed west on Route 10 toward Montreal. Some miles down the road I realized
my mistake and after looking at the map decided to head north on the back roads
toward Drummondville. It broke the monotony of the highway and made for an
interesting view of the countryside. We were soon on Route 20, the main highway
heading toward Quebec until I pulled off and headed north to Issoudun, (red star
on map) the home of my grandparents Gaudias Bouffard and Alvine Ferland and the
birthplace of my mother and most of her brothers and sisters. Since the church
in Issoudun, Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur, wasn't built until 1904 most of the earlier
records show their birthplace as Ste Croix a town to the northwest.
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Issoudun
Montmorency Falls
Quebec City
Inside the Walls
Basse-Ville
More Quebec
Isle d'Orleans
