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Updated: June 4, 2025
Johnny Gagnon's place was at the strategic point on Musquasepi where the forest ended and the meadows began. In the winter-time the freighters left the ice here, and headed straight across the bottom lands for the lake. Gagnon kept a stopping-house for the freighters.
"It is just eight months since I first warned the government that trouble would come. Superintendent Crozier knows the situation thoroughly and would not have sent this wire if outbreak were not imminent. Then here is one from Superintendent Gagnon at Carlton. He also is a careful man." Inspector Sanders gravely read the second telegram.
Now he would see whose wits were the sharpest, his or those of the pig-headed Jean, the man who had dared to dictate to Victor Gagnon. The trader laughed silently. Gagnon's plan had come to him in a flash. The moment he had recognized that the company's dog-train was approaching he had realized the timeliness of its coming. It would be at his door within an hour and a half.
And fifty cents for every meal. Nobody got so much money as that. "It is the same to bring t'ings in. Not'ing is cheaper. Jean Bateese Gagnon, he get a big book from outside. In that book there is all things to buy and pictures to show them. The people outside will send you the t'ings. You send money in a letter." "Mail order catalogue," suggested Ambrose.
I'm calling here to leave an order for Gagnon about a coffin for old Telesphore Tremblay who died yesterday, and I have promised to see his poor wife to-night." "Then I shall take my own buggy and Mr. Ringfield can go with me. The curé can go with you, sir." "Well, if the whole village wishes to pay its respects to a crazy man all at the same time, let them come!" roared the irascible doctor.
Eutrope Gagnon was speaking with unusual ease, slowly, but without seeking words, as though his story had been shaped beforehand. Amid her overwhelming grief the thought flitted through Maria's heart: "Francois wished to come here ... to me," and a fugitive joy touched it as a swallow in flight ruffles the water with his wing.
R. B. Nevitt, Assistant Surgeon; W. G. Griffiths, Paymaster; G. Dalrymple Clark, Adjutant; John L. Poett, Veterinary Surgeon; Charles Nicolle, Quarter Master. Division "A": W. D. Jarvis, Inspector; Severe Gagnon, Sub-Inspector. Division "B": G. A. Brisebois, Inspector; J. B. Allan, Sub-Inspector. Division "C": W. Winder, Inspector; T. R. Jackson, Sub-Inspector.
Anne," said their mother by way of consolation, "we shall all go a-gathering; the men as well, and whoever fails to bring back a full pail is not to have any." But Saturday, the eve of Ste. Anne's day, was memorable to the Chapdelaines; an evening of company such as their house in the forest had never seen. When the men returned from work Eutrope Gagnon was already there.
Close and ill-smelling, the floor littered with manure and foul straw, the pump in one comer that was so hard to work and set the teeth on edge with its grinding; the weather-beaten outside, buffeted by wind and never-ending snow sign and symbol of what awaited her were she to marry one like Eutrope Gagnon, and accept as her lot a lifetime of rude toil in this sad and desolate land ... She shook her head.
Supper was nearly at an end when a footstep sounded without; Chien pricked up his ears but gave no growl. "A visitor," announced mother Chapdelaine, "Eutrope Gagnon has come over to see us." It was an easy guess, as Eutrope Gagnon was their only neighbour.
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