ULLIAC, JOSEPH (150 ENGLISH)
Joseph Ulliac - son of Jean Ulliac and Barbe Legoff
- n. 1859-11-04 - Langonnet, Morbihan, FRANCE
- m. 1886-01-10- Langonnet, - Marie-Louise Cosperec - d. 1938-12-23 - Gourin, Alberta, Canada
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Joseph Ulliac was born in 1859 in Langonnet, Morbihan, France. His parents born there also, were farming.
Joseph, the only living son, began his military service at the age of 20. He serverd five years and that paartly in Algeria. serving even as commander.
He returned to Langonnet and there on January 10, 1886, he married Marie-Louise Cosperec. Both were 27 years old. They remained on a rented farm at Langonnet until October 1890 when they moved to Gourin.
In 1900, there were three girls and four boys in thge family. In 1907, Mélanie married Joseph Cosperec and 1911 brought two marriages: Marie to Guillaume Duigou and Louise to Jean Le Rouzic.
Joseph Ulliac was 54 years old and 1913, yet he decided to settle in Canada. The boys, Jean, aged 20, Jean-Marie, aged 18, Francois, 16, and Louis 13 would need their own farm. They all could have gone to Algeria, a French colony but after obtaining information from the immigration Bureau, they decided for Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Le Rouzic and their daughter left in 1913, remaining in Montreal where he found work.
A month later, Jean and Jean-Marie left also and worked on a farm at Howick near Montréal. In the spring 1914, Joseph left France. But along came his wife, his two other sons and the Duigou and Cosperec families both with two ochildren. At the Havre on the 11th of March, they took the liner "Cecilien" The weather being unfavorable, the people were sick and it took them all of sixteen days to get to St-John, New Brunswick.
By train, the twelve then travel to Montreal where they are happy to meet the Le Rouzic, Jean and Jean-Marie. In Edmonton, Alberta's capital, they meet Mr. Eugene Raoul of the Immigration Bureau. They decided to go to Plamondon about 150 miles away. From there they will seek lands to the west, towards Charron Lake.
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They then travel 100 miles by train to Athabaska. From there by horse and wagon, they travel some 70 miles to Plamondon, settlement of 1908; It is one month since they left France and they stayed at the hotel. Three days later they move two miles west to Charbonneau's shack. This is their dwelling for two weeks: while they settle.
They choose lands east of Charron Lake and then have them, filed at Lac La Biche Mission about 15 miles away. Jean and Jean-Marie arrive from Montreal and join in building the "shacks". One is put up for the Duigou, where Favennec now live and another close by the Cosperec. One mile and a half to the south, where Albert Ulliac now lives, another shack. is built for the Ulliac. A barn is put up for Joseph's horses and two oxen. Land is painfully cleared by axe and grub-hoe and then broken by hand-plow and oxen. That same year the Duigou move to the south east of the Ulliac and the Cosperec move to the south west.
In the spring 1915, the Le Rouzic with their daughter and son arrive and settle where Edmond Le Rouzic now lives, that is, about four miles from the Ulliac. Joseph Ulliac then builds a better house with "axe-squated logs". This ione is placed where François lives today, and it is there that Joseph.
will spend the rest of his life.
Some men work out, getting in return a pig, a cow or even money. The hard-working woman helps in the fields. Some food may be bought in Plamondon where they get their mail but a deer or a moose is a welcomed target and meat is good between the teeth.
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