11. Léna Arsenault Barriault 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Léna was born on 4 June 1901. Apart from being the eldest of the family, she 
     
     distinguishes herself as being the only offspring who, like her parents, married in the small 
     
     community of Maximeville and spent almost her entire life there. On 7 July 1920 she married 
     
     Arcade Barriault, son of Valentin Barriault and Adéline Barnett, who had been discharged 
     
     from the Canadian Army the previous year after having fought on the front in France. Léna 
     
     was related to Arcade as two of her great-grand-mothers, Natalie and Modeste, were sisters to 
     
     Arcade's grand-father, Pierre-Damien Barriault. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Besides her regular duties as wife, mother, housekeeper, cook, washerwoman, nurse and 
     
     adviser to her family, she was always ready to help a friend or a neighbour, be it sitting with 
     
     someone who was ill, helping to deliver babies during the day or in the middle of the night, 
     
     doing some cleaning, house-sitting with children, or just being there during a serious illness or 
     
     a death in a family. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     The Barriault Family around 1941. Back row, left to 
     
     right: Edna, Ernest, Rita, Nora. Middle row: Arcade, 
     
     Léna, Marie. Front row: Louise and Freddie Arsenault. 
     
     Picture taken by Joseph Poirier (José Prosse), the local 
     
     cameraman. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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