"Songe encor que la terre aux si beaux paysages où tu baignes tes yeux émerveillés,oui, songe que, depuis des ans multipliés,le sol est plein de morts qui n'ont plus de visages..." (A Lozeau)
Dr. Tessier-Lavigne is Executive Vice-President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer at Genentech where he is responsible for directing all basic and disease research and drug discovery efforts. He also maintains his own research group focused on the wiring of the developing brain, as well as neuronal re-wiring after injury and the process of neurodegeneration.
Ernest Lavigne, né à Montréal le 17 décembre 1851 et mort à Montréal le 18 janvier 1909, était musicien, chef d'orchestre, éditeur et gestionnaire québécois.
Ernest Lavigne est un musicien qui prit part au 4e détachement des Zouaves pontificaux (pour Rome). Après quelques mois, il se joignit à la musique des Zouaves romains dont il devint cornet solo en 1869.
Comme soliste, Ernest Lavigne remporta plusieurs honneurs, dont deux cornets plaqués or. En 1885, il inaugura les concerts gratuits du Jardin Viger à Montréal où ses performances firent de lui une vedette. Dès 1877, il se livrait au commerce de la musique à Montréal et, en 1881, il s'associa à Louis-Joseph Lajoie, sous la raison sociale de Lavigne & Lajoie.
Cette maison distribua des centaines d'œuvres de divers compositeurs et éditeurs et en publia une cinquantaine par des Canadiens.
Organisateur né, Ernest Lavigne poussa la firme Lavigne & Lajoie à faire l'acquisition en 1889 d'un vaste terrain en bordure du Saint-Laurent qu'il aménagea en un parc d'amusement, le Parc Sohmer. Jusqu'à sa mort, Lavigne assumera la direction des concerts et spectacles de l'entreprise. Dans l'intention de créer un orchestre symphonique, il fit venir d'Europe, surtout de Belgique et d'Italie, de nombreux instrumentistes dont certains se fixeront au pays et y créeront une tradition instrumentale.
Ernest Lavigne peut être considéré à ce titre comme l'un des pionniers de l
a musique instrumentale au Canada.
Comme compositeur, il se consacra surtout à la mélodie.
Son nom a été donné à une avenue de Montréal en 1962
GÉNÉALOGIE
1 Ernest LAVIGNE 2 Moïse LAVIGNE & Flore DAVID 3 Louis LAVIGNE & Marie LEFEBVRE 4 Louis LAVIGNE & Catherine BLONDEAU 5 Nicolas LAVIGNE & Josette TRUTEAU 6 Nicolas LAVIGNE & Charlotte RICHARD 7 Jean-Baptiste TESSIER & Élisabeth RENAUD 8 Urbain TESSIER & Marie ARCHAMBAULT
Source Institut généalogique Drouin 1621-1967; Wikipedia; Ville de Montréal Archives des documents
«By 1850 in Michigan, the census takers were begging the french families to please shorten their names. They had originally been using the Tessier name on census records, but it is generally known that the census taker asked them to choose one, the family name or the dit name. Around this time, Francis Xavier, and his brother Hilary who also resided in Monroe, chose to use the name Santure».
««DEWEYVILLE, TEXAS. Deweyville is on State Highway 12 and the west bank of the Sabine River thirty-five miles northeast of Beaumont in southeastern Newton County. The Sabine Tram Company built a sawmill at a site near an old ferry crossing on the Sabine known as Princeton, or Possum Bluff, in 1898. The new settlement was named after Adm. George Dewey, victor of the battle of Manila Bay of the same year. A post office was established in 1900. The Brotherhood of Timber Workers led an unsuccessful two-month strike against the Sabine Tram Company at Deweyville in 1910. The Peavy-Moore Lumber Company purchased lumber operations there in 1919. Deweyville was a typical sawmill town, where the general store, hotel, community house, and employee housing were owned by the company. The community depended for its livelihood on good railroad connections. The Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway established a line from the Sabine River to Beaumont in 1898, thus providing an outlet for Deweyville lumber products. A. J. Peavy also built a fifteen-mile line from Deweyville to Gist. With its headquarters in Deweyville this line, the Sabine and Neches Valley, linked the town with the longer Orange and Northwestern Railway. For a time Deweyville was the largest town in Newton County. However, it underwent a series of setbacks during the 1940s. A fire destroyed the Deweyville sawmill in 1943. The abandonment of the Sabine and Neches Valley line shortly thereafter also hurt the community, where the number of residents fell from an estimated 1,500 in 1936 to 800 in 1949. The population estimate remained at 800 until 1974, when it increased to 850. It was 850 in the mid-1980s. At that time a few local businesses and the nearby Hartsburg oilfield offered limited employment, and other workers found jobs at the industrial complexes in Orange and Beaumont. In 1990 the population of Deweyville was 1,218»».
Pete TESSIER-LAVIGNE and Martha Ann LefleurRuth Alice Allen, East Texas Lumber Workers: An Economic and Social Picture, 1870–1950 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961). Newton County Historical Commission, Glimpses of Newton County History (Burnet, Texas: Nortex, 1982). Josephine Cochrum Peavy, A History of Newton County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1942).
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