Born in Saint-Donat, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Boulay
and Béatrice (Rouleau) Boulay
Sister of
Herménégilde Boulay, Joseph Pantaléon Boulay, Amanda (Boulay) Bélanger, Laetitia (Boulay) Paquette, Germaine (Boulay) Servais and Adelard Boulay
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 70
in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Biography
Claire migrated with her parents and siblings from Saint-Donat, Rimouski, to Sudbury Ontario, arriving on a freight train in 1884. She was sent back to Quebec to be educated at the convent school of the Soeurs de l'Assomption in Nicolet.
She married Ferdinand Proulx, from St-Anaclet, Rimouski, on May 7, 1900, in Sudbury. He had arrived in the area in 1872 at the age of 20.
Their children: Ulric in Rouyn, Joseph in Montreal (1944), Roland who died in 1931 age 24, Marie, d. age 2, Gilberte, Yvette and Alma living in Sudbury. The two oldest sons studied at the Collège du Sacré-Coeur in Sudbury.
Sources
- Familles pionnières, leur odyssée, leur enracinement. Société Historique du Nouvel-Ontario, Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Sudbury, 1944. Available at https://societehistorique.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/5-Familles-pionières.pdf
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