Madame France Hervieux practicing her craft and creating a colorful sash that will retail between $250-$275 Canadian dollars...
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Rivet-Rivest-Rivé Families of Repentigny, Québec - PART 3
On Rue Notre Dame during Fête au Petit Village
The arrow sash of L'Assomption is synonymous with traditional Québec. By 1835 L'Assomption region was the foremost producer of this colorful sash. More history is available at Fléchée.
Madame France Hervieux practicing her craft and creating a colorful sash that will retail between $250-$275 Canadian dollars...
Madame France Hervieux practicing her craft and creating a colorful sash that will retail between $250-$275 Canadian dollars...
Labels:
ceinture flechee,
Rivet
Location:
L'Assomption, QC, Canada
The Rivet-Rivest-Rivé Families of Repentigny, Québec - PART 2
The church of St Paul the Hermit is at the center of the community in Repentigny on Rue Notre Dame
| The church at night |
| The graveyard behind the church |
| A Rivet gravestone |
A few other sites on Rue Notre Dame (Street of Our Lady) during the day of the Fête au Petit Village:
| Rivets in front of a traditional Québec homestead |
Location:
Le Gardeur, QC, Canada
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