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    The Way it Was
    The Way it Was
    The Way it Was
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    The Way it Was

    By Louise Kennedy

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    Louise Kennedy grew up in pioneer Alberta. She tells stories of her life on the farm, berry picking, gardening, going to school and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasey Pryce
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9781989092156
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      The Way it Was - Louise Kennedy

      Chapter One

      Iwas born on March 20, 1926 in a small community called Plamondon, Alberta. It was a one horse hamlet, as you may call it. My parents, Stanislas (also known as Tony) and Rolalie (also known as Rosie) Duperron were originally from the U.S.A. My Dad's parents, Francis & Exilia Duperron moved to Plamondon from Provemont Michigan, in1907, Dad was 18 years old then.

      Grandpa Duperron was born in 1850, Grandma Duperron was born in 1856, both were born and married in Trois Riviere, Quebec. From here my grandparents moved to Michigan, USA . This is where my Dad was born, on December 3, 1886.

      My Mom's parents, Willie and Victoria Cyre, moved from St. Cloude, Kansas, in 1905 with their three children.

      My grandpa on my mother’s side was born on December 15, 1865 in the state of Illinois. My grandmother Victoria was born in Palmer, Kansas on July 16, 1868. This was where my grandparents were married and where my mother was born, on January 12,1893.

      When moving to Canada, some came by covered wagons and some partly by train, all my grandfather Duperron’s machinery was shipped here by train.

      When they first arrived in Canada, most of the women and children stayed in Morinville, a village about 20 miles north of Edmonton. The men went to the city of Edmonton to get their land title. It cost them ten dollars, providing that they opened up the land by cutting down trees and putting it into cultivation (at least 40 acres) and they also needed to build a permanent dwelling. Each person was allowed 160 acres, under the Homesteaders Act, also known as the Dominion Lands Act. The purpose of this was to bring new people to the prairie provinces, it didn't matter where you came from, as long as you stayed and worked the land. Once you met the requirements, the land was yours to keep.

      My grandfather Francis Duperron lived across the road from us.

      When he first came to Canada with his family, there were three older sons unmarried, including my Dad. They helped grandpa build a big log house. That was in 1908. That house is still standing today.

      There is a secret why that house is still standing to this very day. A lot of the houses and buildings that were built during the early opening of that area, they are mostly all gone.

      The secret is, the foundation is very solid and the logs on the walls were drilled with a hand drill, and pegged with wooden pegs. There were lots of rocks on their land and they would find flat rocks to stack up to act as an foundation, making the house very strong. It was built to last. It's over 100 years old and still standing.

      I never got to meet my grandfather Duperron, he died in November of 1921, five years before I was born. My grandmother was a mid-wife, she helped women deliver their babies.

      After my grandfather Duperron had finished building his house, my Dad got a job hauling freight from Edmonton to Plamondon, stopping many places, delivering supplies along the way. On his first long day,

      he stopped in Rivere qui Barre, about 27 miles north-west of Edmonton. My grandfather, Willie Cyre owned a boarding house with a livery stable, where travelers could eat and have a room for the night, and the horses would be in a stable and also be fed.    That is where my Dad met my Mom.

      My Dad drove three sets of horses, and in winter, a sled with two big boxes, with high sides. In the summer it was

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