Ignace Dumouchel, ca. 1837
Artist: Girouard, Jean-Joseph (1794 - 1855)
Medium: Pencil with crayon and stumping
Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.8 cm (sheet irregular)
Collection Jean-Joseph Girouard
National Archives of Canada, negative no. C-018466

Ignace Dumouchel (1791-1876), merchant and militia captain of Rigaud, married Félicité, J.-J. Girouard's sister. After the burning and sacking of the village of Saint-Benoît in 1837, he sheltered Girouard's wife, whose house had been destroyed.