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(CT 02 Duprac) avec Genevieve Baugis

On April 23 - 1761 - A tragedy occurs. Seven people drown while they are trying to cross the Saint Charles River because the ice on the river was not thick enough for them all to walk upon it. Three of these people were the children of Michel Vallee and Genevieve Baugis. They were Therese Genevieve Vallee who would have been around 48 years old. She had married Antoine Marcoux in 1740. Marie Vallee and Joseph Vallee. The other four people who also drowned were: Jeanne Guillot, Ambroise Cantin, Antoine Noel, and Nicolas Fortier. It should be noted all their bodies had later been found during the spring of 1761.

(This was orally told to me during one of my researching ventures in Cornwall, Ont. I wrote it as it was being told to me. I believe the gentleman who gave it to me said he found it in a newspaper report about the tragedy, J. Battiston 50950)