day 7 - PAYEUR FAMILY CROSS, COPPELL, ONTARIO

Googlemaps:  Payeur Family Cross

There is a large cross located just south of the village where the Payeur family home used to be located until the tragic fire which occurred on the morning of September 13, 1928.  Six of the seven children of the Payeur family died int he tragic fire.  The one who survived was the father of Gérard Payeur who I met with.

You can read about it below.  What struck me is how the entire history of a family and its future generation could be struck by a single tragic event and how lucky we are that at least Gérard's father survived.