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Community & Social Life
Like many small towns, community and social life centered around the
church. Dances with fiddlers and other forms of entertainment characterized
the area. Folk songs and social customs of rural Quebec persisted for genera-
tions, such as the New Year's Day tradition of gathering in the father's house
for his blessing.
Jobs were often turned into games. One story tells the need to move
a large anvil from a barn in St. Joseph. Narcisse Cantin provided the amuse-
ment by offering $50 to the man who could lift the 410 Ib. (186kg) object to his
shoulder (annual wages at the time were about $453). There were several un-
successful attempts, including one by a Black -Canadian man named Mousseau.
Mousseau succeeded in getting the anvil to his shoulder, but the effort was too
much and he dropped it. The anvil then crashed through the barn floor killing a
calf below. Cantin paid Mousseau the $50 and paid for the calf as well.
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