Pierre Plourde's long, healthful and successful life was organized into four periods; Pre-Madawaska Period:1801-1825; Madawaska River Period: 1825-1850; Iroquoise River Period: 1850-1875; St-Joseph Period: 1875-1899.

In the first period, Pierre developed his life working for his father, Pierre senior who was close friends with the Charles-Marie Thériault family in Kamouraska. Pierre senior was godfather to Charles Terrieau, Charles-Marie's son. In this period

, Pierre married one of Charles-Marie's daughters, Apolline, and their first son, Ignace was born in 1825 just before they decided to join Charles in the Madawaska territory.

In the second period, Pierre and Apolline joined Apolline's sister, Josephte "Josette" and her husband Jean Saint Onge and their year old son to join Charles and Léocade who had settled on some land in the Madawaska territory about 3-4 years earli

er. The three couples supported each other as they each developed their respective properties: Charles and Léocade had settled and cleared a 30 acre lot on the corner of land formed by the Madawaska River and the Trout River. The Saint Onge's sett

led immediately west of Charles' land and the Plourde's settled directly across the Madawaska River from the Terrieau's land. They cleared their lands for crops and cultivated the lumber for local building and for export to Europe.

In the third period, as related by the Morneault family history, Pierre and his sons discovered a fall on the Iroquoise River which flowed though the northern end of the land. Pierre thought the fall ideal for a mill and thus, claimed an additiona

l property for the mill. Around 1840, Pierre and his growing sons built a flour and wool mill and no later than 1850, he built a saw mill which is documented in the Census of 1851.

In the third period, Pierre decided to give his first land to Ignace, their elder son and build a second home on the Iroquois River close to the mills. This location came to be known as Plourde Office and a hub of commercial activity. Later in thi

s period, his son-in-law, Pascal who had married Adeline Plourde died of pleurisy, leaving Adeline with seven young children, the oldest being Charles who was 10. Pierre and Apolline decided to move in with Adeline and her children to support an

d keep the family functioning. Pierre turned over his house and mills to his youngest son, Jules in exchange for old age support later. At about the time that Charles turned 15 years old, Apolline died at the age of 77. Since Charles was now ol

d enough to support his family, Pierre moved out to plan the next and last phase of his life.

In the fourth period, Pierre acquired additional land further north in St-Joseph where he built another house and other buildings and began clearing his land for crops. During this period in 1878 at the age of 77, he met and married a woman fro

m Ste-Rose du Dégélé named Elisabeth Thériault, Benoit Ouellet's widow and brought she and her children still living with her to St-Joseph where they continued their life until Pierre died 22 years later in 1899. (Tiré de http://www.terriau.org/ar

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