Looks like it will be a grand gettogether. I would like to invite my own Pipère and Memère, Edward and Eva Beaupre. Pipère owned a livery stable in old St. Anne. After it burned down he began the Beaupre Garage (Dodge and Hupmobile autos). Pipère died when I was a young'un, but we used to spend every Christmas in St. Anne with all the Beaupres at Memère's. I would also like to invite Pipère's grandparents, Julien and Marie Beaupré, who made the trek from the Montreal area to St. Anne in the 1850s. I would love to hear from them the details of the trip, especially the route and means of travel. If there is room, I certainly would like to invite my 8xgreat-grandfather Abraham Martin dit l'Escossais. As Tanguay says of him: "Martin had the honor of bequeathing his name to the battlefield where the armies of Wolfe and Montcalm met: the Plains of Abraham. It is worthy of remark that Mgr. Taché, Bishop of Rivière Rouse, counts among his ancestors in the direct line the three original property owners of Quebec, Louis Hébert, Guillaume Couillard, and Abraham Martin." But Abe is the mystery man--I need to know where he was from, who his parents were, who the parents of his wife, Marguerite Langlois, were, and what was the relationships of the various Anne Martins. And I would also like to ask the old rascal about an incident, as reported: "On 15 February 1649 the little Quebec colony had quite a shock when it was announced that 60 year old Abraham, friend of Samuel de Champlain and the father of a large family, was accused of having an affair with a 16 year old girl. He spent some time in prison as a result of his actions. These facts appear in court records that have been preserved." Alors, c'est la vie, hein? ---bob in monterey