Jacques Lavoie - Leo Menard - Herve Tremblay
In 1954, at 18, I left home my parents built for decades on this stretch of street called up last year, "the foot of the mountain" (1) , and which was finally given the name of Elizabeth Street. Beautiful colonial attitude was the name of the new "chief" of the Dominion of Canada. This was not new: the city already compteit Kitchener Street, oddly named for a British Field Marshal!
As high unemployment and jobs, rather rare, I thought to get into the Air Force could be a way to learn a trade, and more able to improve my English and, especially, to have the opportunity to see the country.
day of my promotion, Saint-Jean-d'Iberville, June 10, 1954.
1. d'Iberville St. John, Quebec
My stay in the air force began in Saint-Jean-d'Iberville.
There, I met two guys from La Tuque: Leo Menard and Jacques Lavoie, who, thereafter, will be well known by the public for their involvement in the community.
The trio latukois in his quarters, reviewing lecture notes:
Herve Tremblay, Leo Menard, Jacques Lavoie. Saint-Jean-d'Iberville, 1954.
The first will CFLM announcer, radio station that opened its airwaves in October 1959 and the second will be in the building, having worked at the plant of the Canadian International Paper, IPC and he will make a short public career at City Hall.
So I spent six months at St. John to learn English, receive my military training basis, learn to draw!
Herve Tremblay and Jacques Lavoie at the latter's uncle, in Cornwall, Ontario.
Herve Tremblay and Leo Menard, on the bank of the Richelieu, 1954.
2 Borden, Ontario
Herve Tremblay and Jacques Lavoie, Cornwall, Ontario, 1954.
For six months I spent in Borden, I took courses in mechanical, "air frame, "they said at the time. It includes learning to repair the aircraft structure from new or used equipment.
Leo Menard and Herve Tremblay front of the restaurant Dundas, Montreal, 1954.
3. Portage La Prairie, Saskatchewan
With fellow French (Levesque, Dubé, Doucet, Pellerin), before moving memorial of the First World War, Saint Boniface, Manitoba.
In Saskatchewan, Portage La Prairie, there were pilots who came from everywhere, soldiers belonging to NATO countries who came here to train.
is where I could practice my mechanics course. However, we young apprentices, we were also called to perform all sorts of chores, from that to play with fire until the recovery of remains of deceased persons in a plane crash.
What interested me most was to learn methods of inquiry to become a military policeman. I wish to join this body, but I had disillusioned because I was too young ... You had to be aged 21 years to become MP
So I asked to be demobilized.
4. Borden
I finally returned to Borden to be demobilized.
My experience in the Air Force has taught me that the French had not really belong. They might be classified most often on the honor roll for all sorts of reasons, the climate was not favorable to the French fact. We were in the RCAF!
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HMCS Shawinigan . Stamp Issued by Canada Post in 1998.
At Portage La Prairie, I made the acquaintance of a type Shawinigan, Gaetan Pelletier. Now I remember this ship, a frigate of the Navy, which bore the name of this city and was the subject of a stamp in 1998.
In service from 1941 to 1944, the vessel sank with its crew of 91 sailors in the Cabot Strait off Newfoundland, 24 November 1944, torpedoed by a German submarine.
HMCS La Tuque
Crest of the frigate La Tuque .
I do not know if those sailors who served on the frigate La Tuque from 1941 to 1944, when it was remodeled into the Fort Erie have never known where this city was located. The
Fort Erie was scrapped in 1966.
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native of La Tuque, Leo will CFLM announcer from 1963 to 1968 before being hired by YAST, the station's parent network Radiomutuel in Montreal. He stayed 14 years before taking up other duties in the field of radio.
Leo hosted a show on fishing and hunting. Here in the studio CFLM,
surrounded by a net and a fishing rod and wearing a baseball cap, he advises his listeners.
contest drawings by children at Christmas. About 1965.
The three pictures are taken from Leo's "Projections 1979 ", published Echo de La Tuque.
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JACQUES LAVOIE
Herve Jacques Lavoie and Tremblay, on a log over a century in Cornwall, Ontario.
Jacques Lavoie has long worked at the factory of the IPC, before embarking on the real estate field.
November 2, 1963 he was elected alderman for Ward 3, winning the election by 154 votes, on his two opponents: Yvon Messier et Yvon Renaud. In September 1973 he announced that he will fight to the incumbent mayor Lucien Filion. Odin Olsen defeated in 1967, will also race.
Jacques gives press conferences, launches a journal, it distributes door to door. All this in vain: November 4, vote counting. Jacques, with 14.6% of votes (713), is far from Filion (77.3%, 3793 votes), ahead of Olsen (8.1%, 399 votes).
In 1977, in his book History of La Tuque through its mayors (page 180), Filion wrote that the campaign Jacques took on the appearance of the fable, "The Frog and the Ox. "
Jacques Lavoie, en route, on the run to La Tuque.
Archive Herve Tremblay.
page advertisement appeared in the special issue L'Echo de La Tuque "75 - is full of promise ... La Tuque 1911-1986" published June 17, 1987.
Thanks for reminding me Françoise Bordeleau publication of this closet.
Jacques will be involved in Air Cadets, as well as one of its employees, Jean-Claude Houle.Jacques died a few years ago.
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(1) Two residents of this street, just designated under the name "Foot of the Mountain," without street number are listed in the directory in July 1949 of the phone Co. The Hat That Falls. It was Jos Regnier (117s2) and Aurelian Cantin (117s4) ... Ding! Dong! Ring 2, ring 4!
In 1988, Télébec, who had acquired the La Tuque Telephone Company, chose a painting by Jean-Guy Des Lauriers to illustrate the coverage of its regional directories.
"If The Hat Could Talk", by Jean-Guy Des Lauriers, 1985.
SOURCE: Back Cover of the specifications L'Echo de La Tuque ,
published June 17, 1987.
Thus This scene of the famous mountain that gave its name to the city found itself on the front page of most directories 220 000, distributed everywhere through the country of Quebec.
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COMMENT RECEIVED
Jacques Dufour said that I was the sparring partner for boxing Jacques Lavoie.
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