Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Lucien and Yvonne Beaulieu's family (am_2373)
Between 1934 and 1952, Yvonne Lavoie and Lucien S. Beaulieu had twelve children: ten consecutive
girls (all were teachers like their mother) and two boys (one a carpenter and the other a civil
engineer). First row from left to right: Sylvia (Ken Flemming), Alban (single), Yvonne, Lucien, Rino
(Monique Nadeau), Irma (Earl Toner). Standing, same order: Laura (Guy Morin), Bertille (religious
hospitallerof St. Joseph), Claudette (Roland Michaud), Gemma (Rhéo Ouellette), Alice (Norman
Delisle), Lucille (Gerry Red Ouellette), Elisabeth (Gérald Goguen), Lorraine (Daniel
Cuffley). At the time when very few girls had access to superior studies, all the girls obtained a
Bachelor of Arts or Education diplomas. Three girls and one boy have their Masters degree and one of
the girls has a Ph. D. The family property was sold in 1959 and Lucien bought a general store and
later became a Superintendent for the Department of Transportation in Victoria County. Yvonne was a
woman ahead of her time : while raising her children, she returned to teaching around 1948. Photo
taken in 1958. Lent by the Beaulieu family.
