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government money, according to a passage in the centennial book of the municipality of Saint Alphonse. He would have only repaired the beginning of this road. According to the family oral tradition, shortly after the creation of the municipality of Saint-Simeon in 1914, a piece of the eastern part of Saint-Charles-de-Caplan was to be annexed to Saint-Simeon around 1926 because the church was too far to go for the people of the area . Residents would have been unhappy because they would have to pay the bill for the construction of the new church of St. Simeon. It appears that Pierre was among those who protested against the annexation and that he never did enter in the church of Saint-Simeon in his whole life because he was so hardheaded. The story is to be reconsidered, because as mentioned above, Pierre died in 1921, well before the annexation of 1926. This must be the story of one of his brothers. Pierre and Marie Anne had five children together: Marie Julie, Wilbrod, Pamphile, Napoléon and Xavier. Marie Julie was married to Elzéar Arsenault, a local farmer. The oral tradition in the family is that the couple would have kept Pierre and Marie-Anne under their roof towards their end of life. Without knowing what really happened, Pierre and Marie-Anne would have decided to moved to the house of their son Pamphile. Elzéar had a reputation for being hateful and grinchy, which might have made the parents change their minds. The act of retrocession is proof of their change of residence. Wilbrod was married to Cédulie Arsenault then mayor of the city of Saint-Charles-de-Caplan for a while. It seems that he inherited his father's store for a short time before being mayor from 1936 to 1938. I mentioned earlier that it is said that Pierre was too hardheaded to enter the church of Saint -Siméon. I think this story is actually Wilbrod's. In Caplan's centennial book, one can read a protest letter against the annexation of a portion of Caplan to Saint- Siméon. It is signed by Wilbrod. Hence the idea that it would be Wilbrod and not Pierre who would have the mandate of 1927. This suggests to us that Wilbrod had a sense of belonging to the city of Caplan instead of Saint- Simeon. It may have been the same for Pierre and Roch-Xavier. The other two children, Napoleon and Xavier’s story is quite something. Both took care of their father's tanneries, one in Pabos and the other in Gaspé. The story runs that Peter sent them merchandises in their stores. The two children never paid their father. It turns out that both brothers were heavy drinkers of alcohol and spoiled their children. They eventually went bankrupt. It must be said that Pierre could not watch them because of the distance. He would no doubt have sold the lands and buildings afterwards. We do not really know what has become the future of the two boys, but they have probably left Gaspésie. As for Pamphile, our next ancestor, this one would rather have lived a life of a worker. By worker, I mean that Pamphile did not climb the social ladder as much as his grandfather or his father. Being the last of the family would have had a consequence on his own life story. I therefore relied more on the oral tradition of my grandfather Fabert to learn more about Pamphile. Pamphile was born in 1874 and died in 1966. Married to Adelaide Bourdages in 1894 in Caplan, he had eight children: Lena, Lucien, Zephirin, Alphonse, Roch, Eleonore, Anna and Marie Anne Bujold 1844- 1926 Pamphile Bigaouette 1874 -1966 Adélaide Bourdages 1871 - 1957