Aldège et Oscar Landriault House

Built around 1860, this house on Alfred Street seems to have been divided into duplexes for a long time. Auguste Labelle, a blacksmith and carter lived on one side of the house and rented the other side to a notary.
Xavier Landriault (1871-1950) and Ozéline Leclerc (1874-1934) settled in the double house on Alfred Street in March 1917. Xavier was the first of the line to shorten the name to Landriault: his ancestors were known under the name Landriault-Dusourdis.
Xavier, a welder by trade at Bertrand & Frères, liked to make fishing nets and work with wood, including the making of rowboats.
He bequeathed the double house to his sons Oscar and Aldège. Aldège (1901-1969) and his wife, Laura Parisien (1906-1980), moved in when they married in 1934. Oscar (1899-1961) and Marie-Anne Cusson (1909-2008) followed suit two years later. The two couples had six children each.
This Landriault family home has not changed much since its beginnings. It remains the silent witness of the children and cousins who lived on Alfred Street, now Bay Street.