English translation of the Saint Leon Le Montagnard newsletter collection begins

This is an English translation of the Saint Leon Le Montagnard newsletter collection. This describes how our ancestors, especially Olivier and Ovide Benjamin Lafreniere, were founders of the Manitoba community of St. Leon.

Saint Leon Le Montagnard                      JANUARY 1979

After a good rest during the holidays we return to the publication of La Montagnard. With this release, we begin publishing new topics that we hope will be of interest to our readers.

The history of Saint Leon through the documents. During their research, the team of historians discovered a lot of correspondence, newspaper articles, and other interesting documents of great importance to the history of our parish and village. This documentation has been cataloged annually and we begin this month with the year 1879.

The history of the families of Saint-Leon. The history of Saint Leon is largely reconfirmed by the history of the families who settled in our parish. Many of these families have no descendants here or are forgotten. We will try to trace them and, if possible, give a filiation of a first Canadian ancestor and at the same time a short biographer of the first to come to settle here in Saint Leon.

Baptisms and burials in Saint Leon. Since many have shown a keen interest in the baptisms and burials that have taken place here, we begin publication with the year 1878.

These three new stories, together with our regular articles from Estelle and Lorraine, give us a newspaper that improves from month to month.

Good reading!