Elie Harvey

Elie Harvey was born 15 July of Louis Harvey and Elionore Tremblay. He married Georgiana Savard 20 February. He fathered at least three children, Aurore (1883), Evelina (1885), and Edgar (1889) Harvey. He died c. August 1916 at Mistassini, aged 68 years, predeceased by his wife.

Elie was a cultivator and itinerant farm labourer (journalier). He lived at La Malbaie in 1882 (marriage) and 1883 (Aurore's baptism), and in Mistassini in 1901 (Census) and 1916 (death). He was illiterate and could not sign his name in parish records, but the 1901 Census listed him as able to read and write. The 1901 Census listed him as white, francophone and unable to speak English, born in Québec, of French tribe, Roman Catholic, a self-sufficient cultivator, and having no infirmities.