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BIRTH: 1866 (St. Anicet, QB) | ||
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Cleophas was the first of three brothers to come to White Valley. He arrived with his wife Josephine and tiny daughter Rose in 1890. They possibly stayed with relatives when they first came to BC. A second daughter was born in 1892, but died of diphtheria when she was twelve. By 1893 Cleophas had opened the White Valley Meat Market, a business he operated until he sold it to Alphonse Quesnel. Just six days after Lumby got its name, Cleophas and Josephine had a son Armond, which gave them the rights to say that they had born the first child in Lumby. After Eunice and Pierre Bessette died, Cleophas rented their farm from the estate and moved his family in. It was close enough to his butcher shop, gave him land to raise his own beef and a much larger house for his family. He must have arrived with some "money in the bank" as he was able to invest in various businesses and bought considerable property. About the turn of the century he went into partnership with Nap Bessette in the Lumby Saw Mills Co. Ltd. Cleophas bought the old Bardolph house for taxes after J. T. Bardolph went overseas to war, that was the family's home until Cleophas passed away July 23rd, 1928.
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