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Délima PAYMENT

Louis et Délima Caners 1987

naissance 23 nov 1908 à Cohasset MN,
décès 22 déc 1988 à Percy E. Moore Hospital, Hodgson MB, âge : 80 ans, funérailles 24 à Fisher Branch MB with Fr. Anthony Korewa celebrant, sépulture au Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fisher Branch MB,
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Père :  Julien PAYMENT
Mère : Valérie MEILLEUR

Marié(e) 23 mai 1931 à Fisher Branch MB par rév. François-Xavier Leroux, Louis CANERS, naissance 1902, (fils de Aloysius CANERS et Johanna BORST) décès 24 aoû 1991 à District Health Centre, Arborg MB, 89 ans, funérailles 27 à Fisher Branch MB with Rev. A. Kerewa officiating, sépulture au Parish cemetery, Fisher Branch MB.

10 enfants (6 fils, 4 filles).

1.4. Helen Mabel CANERS, naissance 16 jan 1938 à Misericordia General Hospital, Winnipeg MB, p/m Joseph Payment & Mary Caners, décès 11 jan 2010 à Fisher Branch MB, âge : 71 ans "Peacefully and free of pain ", funérailles 18 à Immaculate Conception Church, Fisher Branch MB. Marié(e) 30 sep 1958 à Fisher Branch MB par rév. Léo Marchand, Emery Honora DANDENEAU, naissance 14 nov 1936 à Fisher Branch, MB, "at home " (fils de Léo (Léon Joseph) DANDENEAU et Anna Alma BRUNEAU), p/m Honora Bruneau & Rose Payment, décès 12 jun 2000 à Percy E. Moore Hospital, 63 ans, funérailles 16 à Immaculate Conception RC Church, Fisher Branch MB rev. Fr. R. David Kowalski officiating. Emey Dandeneau et Helen Caners sont cousins issus de germains ayant comme ancêtres communs Thaddée II Meilleur et Mathilde Vaillancourt. 6 enfants (3 fils, 3 filles).

Louis and Delima Caners

as told by Louis Caners

When we were young there was a party every week at which our neighbours all gathered. That is how Delima and I met. We traveled with a horse and buggy in the summer and a cutter in the winter .We went to baseball games in the summer, and in the winter we went skating on the river by Joe Bouchard's place. Delima was very clumsy on her skates and I always had to hold her up. She was very bashful.

One day, I hitched an old plug of a horse that I had, to the buggy, and we went for a romantic drive. We drove for awhile and found a pretty spot where we stopped, got out, and sat on a log. I put my arm around her and managed to get up the nerve to say, "Delima, you and I have been going out for quite awhile and I think a lot of you - I really love you. Would you be willing to get married to me?" In a

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Them. The following night I had three men watching and waiting in the hayloft. The bear did come back, one of them shot at it and missed. The night after that it came back again and passed right in front of the house. Using a .32 rifle, I shot through the window but didn't think that I had hit him because he took off and tore out part of our picket fence. You can imagine that the men who were in the hayloft waiting for that bear were very disappointed that I had shot at it, since they were hoping for a good chance to do so. A few days later it went to Gauthier's and grabbed a young pig and ran away with it. After that we did not hear anymore about it, so someone must have shot it.

My dad was a professional musician, and we continued to enjoy hearing him play the piano on his frequent visits to our home. I often accompanied him with the violin. I always enjoyed music very much. Dad was the organist at our church for twenty-five years. After he died I took his place, as there was no one else available at the time. I have been the organist for over thirty years now. It was not very easy for me because my playing could not compare with his, but I did my best.

It was always a great pleasure when my sister Ina, and my brother Leo came home for the holidays. It was then that we got together to play and sing sacred and popular music. Those were really very happier times, never to be forgotten.

Del and I are retired and living in our own home on the farm. We enjoy going out to play bingo and to the senior citizen's club, as well as visiting our children and neighbours. We celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary with our family and friends in May, 1981. We enjoy the company of our children and grandchildren when they come to visit us. Our family has been, and continues to be, a great blessing to us. We have much to be thankful for.