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My mother was a Bernard, so my grandfather was born in Miguasha, Québec, married Odélie Lévesque from Val-d'Amour, and they established themselves in Balmoral. It was just next to Val-d'Amour. He is a direct descendent of the… of some of the Acadians that were established in Nova Scotia. In fact, the first one that came in Canada, André Bernard, he was born in 1640 or about, and he was a mason that built the Fort Latour. Later on, some of his descendants in 1755, before the Deportation, they fled towards Baie des Chaleurs. The establishment of Saint-Quentin, Kedgwick, St. Quentin, all along the railroad was, was the work of Father Melanson, Arthur Melanson, who became bishop, archbishop of Moncton and then. And that's, he, he worked to have families come establish themselves along the railroad. After a while, the government saw that the French people were coming all along towards southern parts, so they want to stop that, so they stopped in Saint-Quentin. From Saint-Quentin to St. Leonard, there was 40 miles of woods, and still today, there's nothing there in between Saint-Quentin and St. Leonard. No establishment was done there because the government wanted to stop those people to establish there, French people.