I'm Gisèle Thibault, my mother was Jacqueline Comeau, I'll tell you about her ancestors in a minute and my dad was Louis Thibault. I'd like to tell you a story about my grandfather, my mother's dad. His name was Willie Comeau, Joseph Willie Comeau, Joseph, Willie à Louis à Pierre à François à François Mason Comeau. When my grandfather was 15 years old, Father Blanche and another priest from France came to see his mom, his mother, her name was Catherine Bouleneuve and they were founding a new college to educate young Acadian men, Collège Sainte-Anne and they were interested in recruiting some young men to take advantage of this educational opportunity. So they asked her if she was interested in sending her son Willie, he was the oldest of the family. Well she was very interested but didn't have the means to send him. They had 12 children and could barely put food on the table so an expensive education was out of the question. "Well", the priest replied "Madame Comeau, don't worry about the money, send us your son we'll worry about the money." So, some time in the course of the conversation she realized she remembered that they had a heifer in the field that they might be able to spare so she asked the priest if perhaps they could use the heifer as partial payment for his education. Well, the priest agreed. So that September, my grandfather, 15 years old, left Comeauville with his earthly belongings in a, probably a small bag and in one hand and the heifer being towed on a rope with the other hand. Well, that heifer paid for the first two years at Collège Sainte-Anne, he didn't live there, he wasn't a pensioner, a boarder, he lived with his aunt and uncle in Church Point so that sort of reduced the price a little bit. Anyway, after the first two years, he took a year off and went to teach in the Grosses-Coques and that, the salary he made teaching paid for his next year of education, maybe his next two years I'm not quite sure. After that, he went back, taught another year and went back to college for another year. By doing that, he didn't only educate himself, he also educated his brothers. His younger brother, Édouard, was a little bit of a handful apparently. His mother said Willie do you think you could see your way to help paying to educate, to put Édouard in university, he spends all his time in the stores playing cards and we'd like to get him out of there. So my grandfather did. He educated his younger brother and then he and that brother educated a younger brother and so on and so forth and all the boys got an education that way. Anyway, those years at Collège Sainte-Anne, he ended up getting his diploma, his grade 12 diploma. It's interesting that he had to borrow a pair of shoes from a cousin of him to go graduate, he didn't own any shoes. What he wore on his feet were something called caristeaux, that is apparently the knee of a cow, it's not tanned and people would wear that in their feet, it would mould to the shape of the foot, it was waterproof and apparently quite warm, but not quite what you wanted to wear to a graduation, so he borrowed a pair of shoes to graduate. That diploma and that education gave him a lot of confidence. He went to teach in Meteghan Centre after that, La Butte, and while he was there he found out about a position, an opening for an assistant commissioner to the Canadian Pavilion at the Paris exposition of 1900. He applied for that job and with the support of the priest, he was bilingual, they were looking for a bilingual person, with the support of the priest from Sainte-Anne, he got that job and imagine, a young boy from Halifax who probably never, a young boy from Comeauville, pardon me, he probably never even been to Halifax, he got to spend a whole year in Paris. He got to travel in Europe and he had wonderful experiences. Well, he came back with money in his pocket. I don't know how much but quite a bit for those days. When he got back, the first thing he did was build a new house for his parents, then after that, he had enough left over to build a house for himself after he was married and he started some businesses. He, he was a partner in a shipyard, they built sailing schooners, I think there were three masters, after that or before that perhaps I'm not sure of the time line. He also owned a factory where they canned lobster in Comeauville, where he lived. He also was a partner in a fish plant in Petit-de-Grat, later on, he raised foxes, he raised mink and he went into politics, he was a great lover of politics, Liberal Party of course, in my family you don't vote Liberal you don't talk about it, if you're voting Liberal that's to be expected. But he was the MLA for our area for many many years, I think he was first elected in 1907 and he was an MLA almost all that, all the time until 1948 or 1949 when he was named to the Senate of Canada and he was a senator until he died in 1966 at the age of 89, he was almost 90 years old. Anyway, who knew that a little heifer would bring so much, it changed his life and everybody else's life, not just the heifer but the priest and Collège Sainte-Anne. And that's my story.