“Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour: Ma paroisse, 1880

“Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour: Ma paroisse, 1880-1972”
MCC-00325
Finding Aid
Prepared by Anne Chamberland, October 2009
Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes
University of Maine at Fort Kent
Fort Kent, Maine
Title: “Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour: ma paroisse 1880-1972”
Creator/Collector: Le Blanc Valcour, Louise-Marie
Collection number: MCC-00325
Shelf list number: UM-325
Dates: 1880-1972
Extent: 4 folders (.10 cubic feet)
Provenance: This document was given to Mrs Esther Levesque of Fort Kent, Maine to be given
to the archives by Marcel Valcourt, grandson of Louise-Marie Leblanc Valcourt. The Parish of
Saint-Benoit Abbé is part of the Rimouski Diocese and is located in Packington, P.Q.
Language: French.
Conservation notes: None.
Access restrictions: No restrictions on access.
Physical restrictions: None.
Technical restrictions: None.
Copyright: Copyright has not been assigned to the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes. All
requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the
Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes
Citation: “Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour: ma paroisse 1880-1972”, typescript, MCC-00325,
Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent
Separated materials: Not applicable.
Related materials: Not applicable
Location of originals: Unknown.
Location of copies: Not applicable.
Published in: Not applicable.
Biographical information:
Marie-Louise-Albertine Leblanc was born in Cabano, P.Q. on November 10, 1893, daughter of
Jean-Hercule Leblanc and Appoline Côté. In Cabano, on July 25, 1922, she married Pierre
Valcourt, son of Joseph Valcourt and Démerise Caron. Her husband, Pierre, died August 8, 1966
at the age of 75. Marie-Louise Leblanc Valcourt died November 29, 1977 in Notre-Dame-du-
Lac, P.Q. Marcel Valcourt, her grandson, says that Louise-Marie was a school teacher. She liked
to read, pray, and visit with her sisters and was certainly interested in history, especially the
history of her parish.
Scope and content:
This collection consists of a typescript of "Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour: ma paroisse, 18801972”, written by Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour. The document was written to commemorate
the fifty years, 1922-1972, of the parish of Saint-Benoit Abbé, located in Packington in the
province of Quebec not far from the New Brunswick boundary. The document was never
published. Starting from 1880, it contains historical facts; highlights of the parish; culture and
folklore of the people that were to be forgotten, as per Louise-Marie.
Inventory:
Folder 1:
“Ma paroisse 1880-1972, la morale, la misère et les coutumes des pionniers de
Saint-Benoit de Packington” by Louise-Marie Le Blanc Valcour. 48 p.
Index
Liminaire (Introduction)
Ma paroisse 1880-1972
Le crucifix du paysan
Le cheval; la croix du chemin; les anciens Canadiens
La naissance d’un enfant chez nos premiers colons
L’élevage du poulet
Le café; le pain; la pomme de terre
Le fromage; le vin
Le savon de pays; les raquettes; les âmes du purgatoire
La dévotion à la Sainte-Vierge; la dévotion à Saint-Joseph
L’hospitalité; pourquoi vous bercez-vous?
La côte des Moreau; le moulin à scie; la gelée universelle
Une bordée de neige; les voyageurs; les corvées
Fait réel de l’ancien temps
Le feu; les voitures
Nos traditions du jour de l’an; les fêtes
La sucrerie; les premiers remèdes
Donation par Pierre Valcour à Georges Valcour
La première chapelle; la famille Beaulieu
Valcourt alias Valcour; bureau de poste; premier magasin
L’ école-Chapelle
Une femme courageuse; les animaux sauvages
L’Abbé Amédée Rioux; la neige
La cloche; érection canonique
Mess. le curé Amédée Rioux, Charles Pelletier,
Omer Berger
La superstition
Chômage et colonisation 1929-1939
page 1
page 2
page 4
page 5
page 6
page 11
page 12
page 13
page 16
page 17
page 18
page 20
page 21
page 22
page 23
page 24
page 25
page 27
page 29
page 30
page 31
page 32
page 33
page 34
page 35
page36
Le petit rang 7
La paroisse
Hommage à Mme Dupont; hommage à toutes les mères
La petite fille diplomate; les routes
16 décembre 1973
23 décembre 1973; hommages; poésie; note de l’auteur
page 37
page 38
page 43
page 46
page 47
page 48
Folder 2:
Funéraille de Mme Pierre Valcourt. ( some genealogy). 1 p.
Folder 3:
Les curés de la paroisse St-Benoit Abbé. 2 p.
Folder 4:
Éloge funèbre de Madame Alice Leblanc Richardson Guérette. 2 p.