Wordless Wednesday: Eugene and Juliette

Eugene and Juliette (Beauvais) Desgroseilliers on their wedding day – 90 years ago – on 18 August 1925 in Moonbeam, Ontario, Canada. This photo might be the only extant picture of that occasion.

Copyright © 2015, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: By the lake

My Mom Jacqueline (in the brown sweater) poses with her sisters and brother-in-law (Jeanne d’arc, Normande, Howard, Madeleine and (in front) Simone) near Moonbeam, Ontario, in the summer of 1974.

Copyright © 2014, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: George Vanasse and His Sisters

George Vanasse with his sisters (left to right) Mary, Agnès and Celia (Cécile). They’re gathered for the wedding of George’s son Armand on 5 June 1950 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright © 2013, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: Three Sisters





Mariette Desgroseilliers posing, in what appears to be a studio portrait, with her youngest sisters Jeanne d’arc (left) and Normande (right), about 1940.

Copyright © 2013, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: On the Town



Desgroseilliers sisters, 1959.

 

The Desgroseilliers sisters (all six of them), photographed at a club in 1959. Left to right: Jeanne d'arc, Madeleine, Simone, Mariette, Jacqueline (my Mom), and Normande.

Copyright © 2012, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: Mary Vanasse

Mary Vanasse (1890-1951)

A lovely photo of my paternal great-aunt Mary, taken about 1910, possibly in Pontiac County, Quebec.

Copyright © 2012, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: Lukeria Demoskoff and her young sons

Lukeria (Lucy) Demoskoff with her sons George (left) and William (right), about 1917.

Lukeria wears traditional, everyday Doukhobor woman's clothing: a printed cotton apron over a full skirt, a long sleeved blouse, and a head shawl.

Copyright © 2012, Yvonne Demoskoff.

Wordless Wednesday: Belair family on a summer day

Fred and Julie Belair with their younger children Ray and Darlene,
ca 1939, Fauquier, Ontario.