Three Brothers from Île Perrot
Submitted by Jack Leclair,(#200)
Three brothers Onesime (James), Martin and Pierre (Peter Andrew), sons of Pierre (V) and Mary-Ann French-Laframboise, left Ile Perrot, Que. for northern New York in early 1864. The two oldest brothers were farmers and worked their property at Helena, N.Y. Peter Andrew, the youngest, enlisted in the 140th NY Regiment as a substitute for DeWitt C. Dougloin, signing with an X, for a specified sum of money.
At the end of the Civil War, he married an Ontario girl, Célina Latour. They had their first two children in New York on a leased farm, close to his brothers. In 1870, the family returned to Ontario. They purchased a farm in St. Andrews West, just north of Cornwall, Ont. where he spent the rest of his life. She passed away in 1924. He died in 1926.
[L. to R.] Célina Latour-Leclair,
his wife Marie-Louise Galipeau-Leclair, Jean-Baptiste Leclair,
his son Patrick Joseph Leclair, his son
and Peter Andrew Leclair. ca 1900