, Saint-François on the Île d’Orléans in 1901, Saint-Calixte in Plessisville and Saint-Casimir in 1902, Saint-Augustin at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures in 1903, Saint-Édouard in 1908, and Saint-Théophile and

 E. B., his mother’s initials. The first, “Le tableau de la Rivière-Ouelle,” was written as a tribute to the poet Octave

learning and impatient to satisfy his innate curiosity for technical and mechanical subjects. Indeed, in 1843, at age