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The last pilgrimage of a Jerseyman to the Gaspé Coast
(Québec, Canada)

Told by George Francis Le Feuvre. Texts are translated from his book entitled Jèrri Jadis,
written in the Jersey language and published in Jersey, in 1983, by Le Don Balleine.
A translation by Trustmywords - With permission of Le Don Balleine, publishers.

Rivière-au-Renard

About twenty miles further, one comes to Rivière-au-Renard, one of the major fishing harbours of north-eastern Gaspésie. There never were many Jerseymen here, but the Robins operated a fishing establishment which, along with the shop, made for good working opportunities. French Canadians work there nowadays. The last manager of Jersey origin was Mr Walter P. Le Quesne. I went to see him. He rests in peace in the cemetery. The now deceased John Baudain Le Quesne, undertaker in Jersey, was his cousin, and Miss Lydia Le Maistre who lives in the parish of St. Martîn (Jersey) is also his cousin.

Another Jerseyman I had the opportunity of meeting was Mr Cyril Le Garignon, brother of Mr Le Garignon, owner of the dairy located on the corner of Phillips and Bath streets, in St. Hélyi, Jersey. Mr Le Garignon and his wife (née Kennedy) are charming and invited us to stay.

Part of the population of this port are descendants of irish immigrants whose ship sank in 1847, near Cap-des-Rosiers. They are French Canadians now, with irish names. There is no protestant church or cemetery in Rivière-au-Renard and the Jerseypeople who died here are buried in Gaspé.

George Francis Le Feuvre
Jersey.

 

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 Additional notes collected in January 1966, by George Francis Le Feuvre, in the Revue d'Histoire de la Gaspésie