Olivina (Lepage) Couturier (1873 - 1965)

Born 1873 in Saint Jacques Parish, Quebec, Canada

Ancestors

Died 6 Jan 1965 at about age 92 in Verner, West Nipissing, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Olivina was born in 1873.

She was the daughter of Israel Lepage and Euphemie Moisan.

"The Moisan-Lepage family lived in the United States for ten years. The living conditions were very difficult and in the factories the work was even more dangerous. In addition, one of the mills had burned down and several people had perished. The lack of financial and physical security, isolation, pressure from the clergy to repatriate the exiles were the main reasons that motivated their return to Canada. A monumental odyssey awaited them, as the family returned to Canada, but not to Quebec. They were becoming pioneers of a new colony in northern Ontario. They were leaving a modern American city, in the midst of the industrial revolution, to live in a country where there was only a small population. In a way, they became the first inhabitants in a vast and remote territory with a profusion of lakes, little cultivable land, immense forests and mosquitoes the size of rats. Everything was to be discovered. Everything had to be built. A future was dawning."

MARRIAGE - Jean Baptiste Couturier

She passed away in 1965.

Sources

• HEADSTONE AND BURIAL INFORMATION - COUTURIER, Oliva Lepage Couturier, age 91-92, 1873-1965, Saint Jean Baptiste Verner Cemetery,

Verner, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170948037/olivina-couturier

• FAMILY INFORMATION - https://robertberubeblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/partie-4-les-meres-voyageuses-euphemie-moisan-et-sa-fille-celina-lepage-part-4-the-travelling-mothers/