Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Ernest Plourde (am_2370)
A good number of the residents of Drummond came from the Province of Quebec, especially Témiscouata
County. They were land clearers then builders and farmers. The ancestor Joseph Plourde (1846-1926)
and his wife Philomène Leclerc (1848-1924) were married at Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in 1875. They had some
children when they came to live in Drummond at the 2nd Rural Road of the Ennishone. Their
eldest son Ernest Camus (1876-1936), in the centre of the photo, became a friend of their
neighbour James White, an Irishman who was single, had showed him how to play the violin and
bequeathed him his land in 1897. Ernest kept his promise of taking care of his benefactor. In 1904,
he married Léda Rioux (1887-1967) and four of their fifteen children reached an adult age: Anna
(Paul X. Morin), Alfred «L'Dé» (Annette Thériault), Thérèse (Jacques Méthot) and Fernand (Thérèse
Nadeau). Sitting, Ernest Plourde. Standing, to the left, a Dubé, to the right, Bruno «Gasounne»
Lebel. Photo around 1920. Fred R. Cormier, Grand Falls, N.B. Lent by Jean-Guy Plourde.
