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PLUMBING & HEATING
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GREG MASSE
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73068 Bluewater Hwy., R.R. #2
Zurich, Ont. NOM 2T0
Phone: 519-236-4649
CeII: 519-872-1746
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33972 Moore Court, RR # 2, Zurich, ON NOM 2T0
519-236-7518
Shoreline Protection & Erosion Control
Site Preparation • I3asemcnts • Pool Excavating
Driveways • Ponds • Ditch ('leaning • Sand • Gravel • Topsoil
Dave Durand Electrical
Tel: 519.236.4422
Zurich, Ontario
Farm — Residential — Commercial
New Work and Repairs
Celebrating 40 years.
Proud to be part of St. Joseph.
R.R. 4 2
Zurich, Ont. NOM 2T0
Phone - 519-236-7120
Fax - 519-236-4960
David Regier
Owner
Renovations
Additions
Residential
Commercial
Agricultural
Within a decade or so of the Canada Company's first activity in the Huron Tract
there seems to have been early visits to our Lake Huron shores by some of the
French Canadians who a little later took up farms. Local tradition has Claude
Gelinas, Abraham Bedard, and Baptiste Durand visiting the area in the late 1830's
and being so impressed with the land, the climate, and the rich catches of fish
that they returned to their home townships in Quebec convinced that a better
life beckoned in the Lake Huron area. Their enthusiasm was contagious and a
number of the people in their home rural areas also felt that the poverty on their
small farms in Quebec offered them nothing except IoW prices for their crops, the
threat of starvation, and no future. So, a number of families abandoned the small
poor farms in Quebec and joined the hundreds of thousands of French Canadians
who chose migration to various parts of Canada West, that is Ontario, and to New
England as well as other areas.
Todd LaPorte
Carpentry
R.R. d 1, Dashwood
Over 20 years experience of finish carpentry.
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Among the first to come to our Lake Huron area arrived in mid-July, 1846. Among
the first groups to arrive included the initial group which spent their first nights
and days on the beach, now called Ducharme's Beach. This group named the area
Pointe-a-Bouleau. This group included Elie Ducharme, Christophe Ducharme,
Norbert Denomme, Oliver Mousseau, Basil Geoffrey Basil Durand, Pierre
Corriveau, Joseph Laporte, Pierre Masse and Francoise Papillon (Papineau). Other
names which appear in the other early groups include Cantin, Desjardine, Tetreau,
Gratton, Aucil, Etue, Charette, Ayotte, Gravelle and Brisson.
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Durand Heating & Cooling Ltd.
112 King Street, Hensall, Ontario • NOM 1X0
Darrfn Durand
Owner
Phone: (519) 262-3136
Fax: (519) 262-2463
Pager: (519) 858-7614
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