Dorila Brault and Israel Fortier in Clyde Alberta

Dorila Brault and Israel Fortier in Clyde Alberta

Dorila Brault and Israel Fortier had 6 children that lived to adulthood.  Their mother Dorila died in 1935 at the age of 33.  The children went to live with relatives and friends from that point onward.  Seen below is a group photograph of the extended family.  The man at the right is Israel Fortier and by his side holding the infant is his wife Dorila Brault.  The image is from about February 12 1922.  The couple in the middle is the parents of Israel and this is their 50th wedding anniversary.

Back L-R: Lenore, Aldie, Merila
Front standing L-R: Azelina, Archille, Josephine, Dorila (holding Josephine) Israel & Leoda
Front sitting L-R: Johnny Giroux (Azelina’s son), Lenore’s daughter ? if it is Muriel and her son ?

Dorila Brault married Israel Fortier on 23 April 1919 in Clyde of Alberta Canada.  They had seven children but one died young.  She died at age 33 in Clyde Alberta.  Do not know yet about the cause of her death. When she died the girls went to live with a sister of Fortier and the boys went to a religious orphanage.  Three of her children are still alive as of summer of 2012.  They are my mother’s cousins.  Wish I had a full group picture of her family in Clyde.

1 – Martina Fortier (1920-1922)
Died young in Clyde.

2 – Josephine Fortier (8 Feb 1922 to 19 Oct 2007)
Married John Cumming in 1944.  Had three children in Saskatchewan.  Moved to British Columbia.

3 – Ovila Gerald Fortier (30 Apr 1924 to 07 May 1987)
Married Esther Cormack.  He moved to Quebec.

4 – Lucille Fortier (17 Jun 1926 to)

5 – Georges Fortier (25 Jul 1928 to 11 Feb 1999)
Married Margaret Kelly and had five children.

6 – Yvonne Fortier (17 Dec 1930 to)
Still alive and in Alberta.

7 – Achille Hubert Fortier (04 Mar 1933 to)
Married Marie Jean Girard and has two daughters.