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Barthelemy “Albert Bert” Meilleur

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Birth	:	25 Oct 1876 Menominee County, Michigan, USA
Death	:	25 Oct 1970 Arborg, North Interlake Census Division, Manitoba, Canada
Burial	:	Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Cemetery, Fisher Branch, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate	:	51.0688140, -97.6045360
Description	:	My great-grandfather, Barthelemy Meilleur, was born to Thadde Meilleur and Mathilde Vaillancourt on October 25, 1876, in Monominee, Michigan, U.S.A. In the fall of 1901, he married Lucie Faubert in Grand Forks, Minnesota, where she was from. They settled on a dairy farm at Leramore, North Dakota, for the next ten years. In 1911, Barthelemy Meilleur moved to Canada with his family of three. He first settled in the Arborg area. There, he cut cordwood for a living. In the year 1912, he moved to Fisher Branch with a team of oxen. He resided here for fifty-eight years. Read More	My great-grandfather, Barthelemy Meilleur, was born to Thadde Meilleur and Mathilde Vaillancourt on October 25, 1876, in Monominee, Michigan, U.S.A. In the fall of 1901, he married Lucie Faubert in Grand Forks, Minnesota, where she was from. They settled on a dairy farm at Leramore, North Dakota, for the next ten years. In 1911, Barthelemy Meilleur moved to Canada with his family of three. He first settled in the Arborg area. There, he cut cordwood for a living. In the year 1912, he moved to Fisher Branch with a team of oxen. He resided here for fifty-eight years. When he arrived on his homestead located N .E. of section 36, T. 25, R. 24, lW., the log cabin was not yet ready, so he and his family had to live, for three or four days, under a canvas tent. During the nights, they had to keep an outside fire burning to keep the bears away. When the harvest was ready that year, Barthelemy left his family in Fisher Branch and went to Fannystelle to earn money harvesting. Threshing being over, he came back with a team of horses and a buggy which he bought on his way home. During the winter, he got busy cutting cordwood in the morning, and in the afternoon, went to the town of Fisher Branch to sell his wood. Barthelemy Meilleur and Lucie Faubert raised a family of seven children, of whom three were boys and four were girls. Two daughters still reside in Fisher Branch: Mrs. Josephine Vandersteen and Mrs. Beatrice Ponchon. The two others are the late Mrs. Blanche Bourget, and Mrs. Rose Raymond now living in Melvin, Saskatchewan. Their son, Victor, died at the age of thirty-three, and another son, Eusebe, died in 1979. Albert lives in Detroit, Michigan. Until the last months, Barthelemy had one brother, Louie, living in St-Boniface, and one sister, Mrs. Mathilde Gauthier, living in Otterburne. He also had sixty-four grandchildren, two hundred and five great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren. He became a widower early in his married life. It was during the flu epidemic after the first World War. His wife was buried on December 20, 1918. Henceforth, he lived with his children, cutting wood and doing the odd jobs to support them. After his children were all married, he lived alone in his own little house in the town of Fisher Branch. Once in Fisher Branch, from 1912, he did not travel very much, except in 1928, he went to Carnduff, Sask., to spend the winter with his son-in-law, John Vandersteen Sr. At the age of ninety, he could not live alone anymore, so he went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Ponchon, until the day he had to be hospitalized in the St-Benedict Home, Arborg. There, he died on October 25, 1970. He was ninety-four years old. He was buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery of Fisher Branch. -- by Carol Bilinski The above is an account of his life and that of his family as pioneers in the Marble Ridge / Fisher Branch area of Manitoba as taken from the local history captured in the book "A Place of Our Own - A History of Fisher Branch and surrounding towns" (1982), pp 253ff Further: Due to the fact his father was illiterate, his family name is often misspelled in the historical records. Variations encountered include but may not be limited to: Mager, Mayer, Meyer, and Moeyer. Towit (per the same volume mentioned above, p 253): "From the time Thade left his native Quebec until his death, he went by the name of "Mayer". Being unable to read or write, he was unaware that his surname was anglicized when he moved to the States. It was when our first child was baptized that Father Leroux, parish priest and family friend, and himself a former Quebecer, undertook to have the name legally restored to its original French."

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Barthelemy “Albert Bert” Meilleur's memorial is located at: Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Cemetery, Fisher Branch, North Interlake Census Division, Canada.
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Barthelemy “Albert Bert” Meilleur death on 25 Oct 1970 in Arborg, North Interlake Census Division, Manitoba, Canada
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Latitude: 51.0688140
Longitude: -97.6045360

Family Members:

Parent

Thaddee “Teddy” Meilleur

(1848 - 1923)

Mathildee Vaillancourt Meilleur

(1854 - 1944)

Spouse

Lucie Faubert Meilleur

(1886 - 1918)

Siblings

Mathilde “Matilda” Meilleur Gauthier

(1884 - 1971)

Alma Meilleur Bruneau

(1889 - 1918)

Oaias Meilleur

(1895 - 1918)

Julien Meilleur

(1896 - 1918)

Melina Meilleur

(1900 - 1918)

Children

Josephine Mary Meilleur-Mullen Vandersteen

(1905 - 1997)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Cemetery
Fisher Branch, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.0688140, -97.6045360

2. Fisher Branch Cemetery
Fisher Branch, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.0836300, -97.6602200

3. Morweena Community Cemetery
Morweena, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9949000, -97.4105000

4. Hodgson Cemetery
Hodgson, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.2151170, -97.5870000

5. Poplarfield Community Cemetery
Poplarfield, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8904190, -97.6250370

6. Saint Nicholas Parish Cemetery
Poplarfield, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8870830, -97.6188150

7. High Plains Cemetery
Poplarfield, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8894450, -97.6732760

8. Chatfield Community Cemetery
Chatfield, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8202390, -97.5578490

9. Okno General Christian United Cemetery
Okno, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.0524800, -97.2040100

10. Saint Matthews Anglican Cemetery
Peguis, North East Manitoba Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.3200900, -97.5463200

11. God's Acre St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Cemetery
Bifrost, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9103100, -97.2518800

12. Arborg Community Cemetery
Arborg, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9111200, -97.2477100

13. St Mary's-St Paraskevia Ukrianian Orothodox Cemete
Ledwyn, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.0081760, -97.1319650

14. Haga Cemetery
Arborg, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9096000, -97.1576000

15. Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
Silver, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8342770, -97.2511130

16. Progress All Saints Ukrainian Cemetery
Bifrost, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.0744400, -97.0856000

17. Lillesve Cemetery
Lillesve, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.7418090, -97.7403090

18. Geysir Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
Geyser, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9150900, -97.0876200

19. Mulvihill Cemetery
Mulvihill, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.9641300, -98.1632300

20. Eriksdale Municipal Cemetery
Eriksdale, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.8603500, -98.0888500

21. Willowview Cemetery
Narcisse, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.6974172, -97.5776743

22. Abbeville Roman Catholic Cemetery
Deerhorn, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 50.7716620, -97.9912810

23. Washow Bay Cemetery
Washow Bay, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.1796610, -97.0126170

24. Mennville Evangelical Mennonite Church Cemetery
Riverton, North Interlake Census Division, Canada
Coordinate: 51.1271710, -96.9913970