Edouard
Léger
Born in Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
Ancestors 
Son of Sylvain Léger
and Rosalie LeBlanc
Brother of
Joseph Tilman Léger, Émile Léger, Joseph Tilmon Adélard Léger, Emma Léger, Napoléon Léger, Albertine Léger, Sara Léger, Sifroi Léger, Marie Roseanne Léger, Évéline Léger, Raymond Léger and Sylvain Léger
Husband of
Marie Landry
— married
9 Oct 1911 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 80
in Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
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Biography
Édouard Léger was a blacksmith, a politician and a funeral director
Édouard was born in 1890. [1]He was the son of Sylvain Léger and Rosalie LeBlanc.
He married Marie Landry, daughter of François Landry and Marguerite Vienneau, on 9 October 1911.[2]
He was elected member of parliament representing Westmorland County at the New Brunswick legislative assembly, in 1939. He was reelected in 1944 and 1948 and kept his seat until 1952. [3]
Édouard and Marie became funeral directors. Marie was the first Acadian woman to receive certification as an embalmer in 1937. (Her profession is written on her tombstone) At one point the abandoned blacksmith shop of Edouard's father was used as a storage shed for caskets, before being dismantled and moved to the Village historique acadien in Caraquet. [4]
He passed away about 1971.
Sources
- ↑ "New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT3Z-K6F : 11 March 2018), Sylvain Léger in entry for Joseph Edouard Zoël Léger, 27 May 1890; citing Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, certificate 003708, Provincial Archives, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 1,944,008.
- ↑ "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBF-DWKT : 20 February 2021), Sylvain Léger in entry for Edouard Leger and Marie Landry, 09 Oct 1911; citing , Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, p. , Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 2,024,743.
- ↑ Contributeurs de Wikipédia, "Édouard Léger," Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89douard_L%C3%A9ger&oldid=176821328 (Page consultée le novembre 21, 2020).
- ↑ Basque, Philippe, historien du Village historique acadien, "La maison et la forge Léger : de Memramcook au Village historique acadien." Causeries du mardi, Facebook Live, Monument-Lefebvre, 25 août 2020, https://fb.watch/5mVARDJKan/ visionné 8 mai 2021.
- Baptism : A digitized image of the register entry is available online at : https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/voir.aspx?id=H:/Registres/Acadie/Lieux%20de%20A%20%C3%A0%20W/Memramcook/1890/1890/d1p_31090786.jpg (accessed February 2024)
- https://www.genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=38193
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