Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
A barn frolic in Drummond (am_2372)
In the past, it was the custom to have a frolic to raise a barn or a big building. For the
construction of the barn of Arthur Côté, a neighbour of Ernest Plourde, relatives, neighbours and
friends came to help. The foundation was made beforehand with rocks and the men raised the frame. If
all went well, they began to put the plank walls. In the front, Camille Côté (a boy), Charles
Castonguay (single and brother of Alice), Alice Castonguay (wife of Arthur Côté), Arthur Côté, Émile
Ouellette (husband of Léontine Ouellette). Squatting in the middle: Adélard Ouellette (husband of
Adélaïde Ida Desjardins) wearing a hat, and Clovis Bernier (husband of Malvina Thériault)
with his square. Standing, Isidore Castonguay, ?, Conrad Belzile, Marthe (daughter of Arthur), ?, ?,
?, Joseph Rioux, Paul Piton Plourde (husband of Aurore Rioux) and her brother Ernest, of
which only an arm can be seen. Arthur and his wife Alice came from Quebec and they had two children,
Marthe and Camille. Marthe married Charles Levesque. Camille inherited the land and married
Jeannette Levesque. Photo taken around 1928. Lent by Jean-Guy Plourde.
