Paul Plamondon

Paul Plamondon was born of Alfred Plamondon and Angeline Caron on 06 October 1912 and married Marie-Blanche Godbout. He fathered Denise (1939), Louisette (1940), Jacques (1941), Fernand (1942), Jean-Paul (1942), Micheline (1943), Raymond (1946), a still-born boy in 1949, and Nicole (1950) Plamondon. He died 31 January 1999.

Paul Plamondon was the son of a farmer who lived at Trois Lacs, Stoneham, Québec. The family owned land around the three lakes, which were leased to a group of rich Americans. They also owned a farm in Ancienne L'orette which Paul eventually inherited. He later sold the farm and it is now a large golf course. He used to tell the story of how when he was very young he went on a pilgrimage with his mother from Trois Lacs to Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, which at that time took a whole day to reach by horse & wagon. She later died and his father married a widow who also had small children.

He worked as a travelling salesman and later ran a small restaurant on Rue de l'Couronne in Quebec City. He owned a small chalet on what was once his family's land near the three lakes and spent most of his spare time fishing for trout from his canoe.

When Paul was 27 he married 27-year-old Marie-Blanche Godbout. She was a city girl, pretty and popular, who found life on the farm very difficult.