The Seeds
The Life Story of a Matriarch
Lucy Griffith Paré
with the collaboration of her son Antoine Paré
The Life Story of a Matriarch
Lucy Griffith Paré
with the collaboration of her son Antoine Paré
The Seeds is a story Grand-mama told to my uncle Tony that he recorded and subsequently transcribed together with Antoinette Paré Glur, his daughter.
One day in 1983, we went to ask Uncle Tony, who was a lawyer, to represent us in court against a group that had reneged on a contract. He encouraged us to try to imagine how much negativity and wasted time would result from such an action and suggested that instead we take his manuscript home and see if we could publish it for him and the family. Desktop publishing was not yet a reality, but we had acquired an old A B Dick 326 offset printer that the professionals were abandoning and an Osborne portable computer--one of the first home computers, with no built-in memory and a 64k floppy disk capacity--in order to fulfill the contract that we no longer had. We took the manuscript and, together with him, sent an appeal to all of his siblings to loan us their family albums so we could illustrate the book. Between editing text and sorting pictures, we lost our dining-room table for a year and converted a basement room into a print shop.
In order to finance the costs of the project, Uncle Tony set up the Alphonse and Lucy Griffith Paré Foundation, appealing to family members to donate. The foundation remains active and can be visited here.
The Seeds was published in Sainte Lucie des Laurentides, QC, by Les Entreprises de L'Arpent Perdu Inc in co-operation with the Alphonse and Lucy Griffith Paré Foundation in 1984. That December, Lucy Griffith Paré, then in her 96th year, hosted a book launch at Pierrefonds Manor, in Pierrefonds, QC.
Use the link immediately below to open the file in a readable, downloadable format.
Joseph Graham and Sheila Eskenazi
One day in 1983, we went to ask Uncle Tony, who was a lawyer, to represent us in court against a group that had reneged on a contract. He encouraged us to try to imagine how much negativity and wasted time would result from such an action and suggested that instead we take his manuscript home and see if we could publish it for him and the family. Desktop publishing was not yet a reality, but we had acquired an old A B Dick 326 offset printer that the professionals were abandoning and an Osborne portable computer--one of the first home computers, with no built-in memory and a 64k floppy disk capacity--in order to fulfill the contract that we no longer had. We took the manuscript and, together with him, sent an appeal to all of his siblings to loan us their family albums so we could illustrate the book. Between editing text and sorting pictures, we lost our dining-room table for a year and converted a basement room into a print shop.
In order to finance the costs of the project, Uncle Tony set up the Alphonse and Lucy Griffith Paré Foundation, appealing to family members to donate. The foundation remains active and can be visited here.
The Seeds was published in Sainte Lucie des Laurentides, QC, by Les Entreprises de L'Arpent Perdu Inc in co-operation with the Alphonse and Lucy Griffith Paré Foundation in 1984. That December, Lucy Griffith Paré, then in her 96th year, hosted a book launch at Pierrefonds Manor, in Pierrefonds, QC.
Use the link immediately below to open the file in a readable, downloadable format.
Joseph Graham and Sheila Eskenazi
| the_seeds_searchable.pdf |
Rupert's Land
Dr. Louis Paré's Role in the North-West Resistance 1885
J.W. Graham
These short books were Jacob Graham's (my grandson) 11th and 12th birthday presents and he is happy to share them here. I have been writing birthday books for my grandchildren starting on their 2nd birthdays, and Jacob shares my pleasure in reading history. He enjoyed the first book and iasked for Chapter 2.
This first story mostly sets the background for Dr. Louis Paré's role in the resistance, a connection to Jacob's great-great-great-grandfather and to the history we all share.
The second story describes Louis and Josephine's move out west.
This first story mostly sets the background for Dr. Louis Paré's role in the resistance, a connection to Jacob's great-great-great-grandfather and to the history we all share.
The second story describes Louis and Josephine's move out west.
| dr.louis_pare_role_in_the_65th_battalion.pdf |
| __aftertheplague.pdf |