Alexandre Desjardins - Virginie Cadotte - Mary Dick

Alexandre Desjardins - Virginie Cadotte - Mary Dick

Desjardins (dit Roy), Alexandre (Pierre) -marié à Virginie Cadotte, décédée 1899, parttis pour Portage-du-Rat, Ontario; mort noyé à Flin Flon (Channing, fall or spring?); leur fille, Virginie, élevée par les demoiselles Cadotte, mariée à Paddy (Patricia) Charette.

Alexandre was married the first time to Virginie Cadotte, a schoolteacher who apparently died of childbirth. .

According to Gloria Martin, Alexandre was born on Feb. 22, 1871 in Hebertville, Quebec. He drowned on Nov. 2, 1939 in Channing. He was skating and went through the ice. His mitts were found by the hole in the ice (Gerard Charette)Gloria also said that Alexandre spent some time in B.C. in Greenwood and Mayer, in the Kootenays.

Children:

First Marriage to Virginie Cadotte

  1. Virginie
    2.

    Married Patrick (Paddy) Charette. According to Gerard Charette, their son, Virginie was brought up by Rose and Domitil Cadotte (demoiselles Cadotte).

    Children:

    1. Gerard

 

2nd Marriage

To Mary Dick

Mary was the daughter of Isaac Dick and Lena Ginter. Her family sailed out of Russia. The parents lived in Southern Manitoba-East Reserve, near Steinbach.

Mary once used to be married before meeting Alex. She lived in North Dakota, though originated from Southern Manitoba. When she was in North Dakota, she had a terrible mishap. Once a tornado came over the place where she used to live. She was then pregnant and hid inside a well and when the storm came through, she lost her baby. Mary used to work cooking in logging camps. It also seems like Mary and Alex had split up for some time, before he drowned. Mary never kept track of the Desjardins family after that.

The B.C. death index file states that Mary Desjardins died on June 8, 1963 in Central Saanich at the age of 82. This puts her birth around 1881. She died in a nursing home in Saanich, near Victoria. She was cremated and her ashes cast into the sea at a spot which she could see from where she resided in Saanich.

Notes on the Town of Flin Flon and Channing

Channing is a small part of Flin Flon. The town is known for__________Alex had a boarding house up there, etc.

Children

  1. Harry
    2.

    Born June 19, 1905 in Colbrook, Ontario

    Harry died Oct. 31, 1960. Had a stroke (injury/blood clot) when on a ship

    From B.C. Death Index file:

    Harry Desjardins

    Event date: Oct. 31, 1960

    Age =54

    Event place: Vancouver

    Microfilm: B13249 (B.C. Archives)

    Married three times

    First wife -Hilda Brandt

    Hilda died around 1927

    Children

    1. June

      2. Born in 1926.

      June worked at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver as a nurse.

    2. Kenneth

    Born in 1927.

    According to some relatives, Ken seems to have lost contact with rest of family. He just seemed to have dropped out of sight

  2. Lucy
    3.

    Born Nov. 23, 1908 in Makinak, Manitoba

     

     

  3. Richard (Dick)

    4. Born April 17, 1911 in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. He had blue eyes.

    Richard died of cancer on Oct. 1, 1983 at St. Joseph’s Hosptital in Comox, B.C. He had a brain tumor. He was cremated and his ashes brought up to Mount Washington, where they were buried at the base of a tree

    Married Pearl Tibbits

    Pearl was born July, (living) in Quebec

     

    Children:

    1. Wayne

      2. Born(living)in Victoria

    2. Shirley

      3. Born (living)

      Married Arnold Bourbonas

      Lives in Edmonton

    3. Alan

      4. Born (living) in Victoria

      Married Coral Williams

      Lives around the Comox/Black Creek area on Vancouver Island

    4. Paul

      5. Born (living) in Victoria

      Is single

    5. Margot

Born (living) (near Victoria).

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