The very last corner of the Eastern Townships to be settled was remote and mountainous Louise Township, actually in Beauce County but considered to be an extension of Compton's Clinton Township until 1915. The continuing commitment of the Church to colonization as a patriotic duty is clearly illustrated by the fact that the Bishop of Sherbrooke personally visited the Campagna family twice during the fourteen years that they lived alone in the township without access to a road. In fact Mgr. Larocque convinced the government to build a colonization road along the east side of Lake Megantic shortly after the visit recorded in this photograph. One wonders if the Campagnas actually welcomed the end to their years of isolation, for it seems likely that they deliberately chose to live by hunting and trapping rather than farming. From left to right in the photograph are Grand Vicar Chalifoux, Mrs. Campagna and five of her nine offspring, AbbÄ Simard of Piopolis, Moise Campagna, and Bishop Larocque.
Courtesy: La SociÄtÄ d'Histoire des Cantons de l'Est, Sherbrooke
