10. Léon and Marie Arsenault 
     
    
   
   
    
     Marie only travelled off the Island twice in her entire life. In the early thirties she went to 
     
     St. John, New Brunswick to visit her sister-in-law, Tilly, Uncle Jack Gonzague's wife. In 1945, 
     
     she travelled alone by train to visit her daughters. She first went to New York City and spent 
     
     some time with Corinne and her family and then headed to Montreal where Dorothy and Aline 
     
     were working. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Marie Arsenault (1880-1955). This studio picture was taken in 
     
     New York City in 1945. 
     
    
   
   
    
     All those who knew Marie have fond memories of her. She was a lovely and charitable 
     
     women who was blessed with an abundance of patience. In the words of Aunt Aline: "She was 
     
     always content. Never did she complain." Madeleine Arsenault (married to Gus a Joe Hubert 
     
     from Urbainville) boarded with Marie and Léon when she taught school in Maximeville around 
     
     1912. She often said how much she had enjoyed herself there. After she started having children, 
     
     she would talk to them about this lovely women. Marie, therefore, became almost a legend for 
     
     these children and when they wanted their mother to tell them stories about Marie a Léon, they 
     
     would say to her: "Tell us about that perfect woman!" 
     
    
   
   
    
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