Mister Thuribe Tremblay (ca. 1880-1946)

Ten-year-old Thuribe Tremblay is the first child admitted to the Hôtel-Dieu de Nicolet orphanage in 1889 and will regularly spend his holidays at the Métairie Saint-Joseph. While completing his classical education at the Nicolet Seminary, he is hired by the farm in 1900. The first years of work are difficult: before modern machinery, hay and other crops are harvested by hand with a small scythe. He later becomes head farmer of the Métairie and dies there after forty-five years of diligent work making the farm profitable, developing its outbuildings and increasing its production.