Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Frank Lagacé, Annie Cyr and Ella Beaulieu (am_2363)
Hippolyte Lagacé and Élisabeth Chapais married in Van Buren in 1850 and at least four of their
children settled in Drummond: François Frank, Pierre, Thomas and Abraham. Abraham married
Louise Grenier and lived in Drummond on lot 119 and had ten children: Paul, Pit, Marguerite,
Catherine, Elizabeth, Jean-Baptiste, Marie, Émile, Wallace and Edna. In 1894, Frank married Annie
Cyr, daughter of Pierre and Anastasie Cyr of Van Buren, and had three children: Côme (who married
three times), Emma (Émile Beaulieu) and Berthe (became a nun). Little Ella Beaulieu was Emma's
daughter. After her first husband's death Anastasie Cyr came to live in Drummond with her daughter
Annie Cyr and married old Jean Beaulieu (widow of Marie-Anne Lizotte), at Drummond in 1889. Annie
Cyr Lagacé was a midwife and helped deliver more than 300 babies. Photo taken around 1910. Lent by
Jean-Guy Plourde.
