To add my two cents's worth to Doreen's plausible explanation... In 1832, the bishop decided to carve out a portion of the territory of the parish of Les Cèdres to create the parish Saint-Ignace-de-Coteau-du-Lac. He then named Auguste Blanchet as parish priest of this new parish. Blanchet had been the vicaire of Les Cèdres and was the cousin of the incumbant parish priest of Les Cèdres, Norbert Blanchet. Part of the population who had thus far belonged to the parish of Les Cèdres were turned over to the new parish. Some never accepted it. Others, living near the great divide just went along with it as long as the weather permitted them to travel safely to their new parish. But whenever the weather made roads hazardous, they scooted to the nearest church, bishop or no bishop. the belied being that one curé Blanchet was as good as the other... Source : Élie-Joseph Auclair, Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges ou Les Cèdres, 1702-1927, Montréal : imprimerie des sourds-muets, 1927, p. 149 ssq. Cheers, Mona On 14-09-20 2:36 PM, Doreen O via wrote: > That 11 minute drive by car on one of today's highways might have been on a muddy, rutted road by horse and carriage and taken a lot longer. > > The parish of Les Cedres opened in 1752. The records of baptisms, marriages and burials from 1777 until 1833 were recorded in the registers of St. Joseph De Soulange Roman Catholic Church in Les Cèdres, Québec. > The parish of St Ignace de Coteau du Lac opened in 1833. > > Perhaps your family lived closer to St Ignace. > > > NB - if you click a parish on this map link it will give the date it started. > http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/carteQuebec.asp > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "a wojos via" <quebec-research@rootsweb.com> > To: "Q-R" <quebec-research@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:16:50 AM > Subject: [Q-R] Help with directional > > HI > > I am working on a family. It appears that they were having their > children baptized between two parishes. So I checked out google maps the > Parishes if I did it right was only 11 minutes by car apart. The time > period was 1833-1877. Was this possible? The Parishes were Les Cèdres and > St-Ignace-de-Coteau-du-Lac. > > Thank you > Annette > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For the list web page, goto: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm > And we are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QRlist/ > List Archives are at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/QUEBEC-RESEARCH > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For the list web page, goto: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm > And we are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QRlist/ > List Archives are at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/QUEBEC-RESEARCH > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message