Adélard Hervé Joanis

1898 -

• Name	Adélard Hervé Joanis
  Born	19 Jul 1898	Rockland, Ontario   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Notes	From Gil Joanis: Hervé worked for a bank at one time. He embezzled some money and faced charges and jail. Délina and Lionel were able to raise enough money to repay the bank which agreed to drop charges. Nothing was heard from him for several years. Then one evening in the early '30s three men stopped at our farm seeking directions to Meachem, a town about 20 miles east of St. Denis. My father invited them in and recognized Hervé. He did not recognize my father who had not shaved for several days and who was largely crippled with arthritis. But my father introduced himself loudly and clearly. He and Hervé who was travelling under an assumed name managed to slip away for a few minutes to have a talk. He told my father he had been in a poker game in a lumber camp in northern Ontario. One man lost everything and accused of the others of cheating. He picked up a chair and was about to attack when one of the other players hit him with a club, killing him. Facing a murder charge the men scattered in all directions. It was still possible in those years to disappear in Western Canada. Maurice Dinelle felt quite strongly that Hervé had settled somewhere within 50-75 miles of St. Denis. In the 1970s I asked my father where he was. I was met with two minutes of silence. I felt that he knew but did not want to lie to me so he said nothing. End of story.
  Person ID	I1024	Cullen family tree
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Jules Joanis,   b. 04 Dec 1862, Angers, Canada East ,   d. 25 Sep 1900, Rockland, Ontario  (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Marie Délina Quévillon,   b. 01 Aug 1867, Angers, Quebec ,   d. Jul 1968, Hull, Quebec  (Age 100 years)
  Married	17 Nov 1884	L'Ange Gardien, Angers, Quebec   [2]
  Family ID	F1979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories

  Joanis, Jules (1862-1900) and Délina Quévillon (1867-1968) Our great grandfather, Jules Joanis, had a career in sawmilling, and was a millwright at the Edwards mills in Rockland when he died at the age of 37, leaving his wife and seven children. Excerpt from A Melding of Cultures Ancestors of George Turner and Bernadette Joanis, Volume 2: Our Lapointe and Joanis Ancestors Four Hundred Years of French Canadian Heritage, Mark Cullen, 2018 pp 112-122, 227-231 and 261-262.

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Tres Sainte Trinite Rockland Ontario 1889-1988 Lemieux Publisher 1991, 236. [S41] Ancestry.ca, Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967Angers, L'Ange Gardien Parish, 1879-1890, Page 146.