Dr Jean-Claude Dufour adds:... as so many others, and as much that of others, we came three hundred years ago. And we remained. We took foot to St-Joachim and we swarmed in all the East of the province of Quebec and even elsewhere. Every city, every village, every parish counts one of ours, that arrived with the first, that participated, that contributed. Robert Dufour was sent by Gentlemen of the Seminary to explore the Coste St-François-Xavier, because he was, according to the District attorney, experienced in the country. Nicette Dufour, with François Savard, laid an ambush on L' Îsle aux Coudres, in 1759, and captured the grandson of the English admiral Durell. Joseph Dufour, the Grand Bona, was member of the first Canadian parliament during 1792. Gabriel Dufour, his son Augustin and his grandson Augustin were to the origin of the coastal trafic on the St-Laurent River. Clément Dufour, according to the abbey Mailloux, was a very clever carpenter of schooners and rowboats... Such were the first Dufour, our ancestors. Why should repeat it? Why retell? Why even to ramble on him? Why celebrate?

Felix-Antoine Savard, the famous author of ''Menaud, Maître Draveur'', would probably answer so: ''Your children need to hear that places where they live were also cleared by the Dufour and that their forebears, with the derisory means created a country of happiness that has little equivalent on modern times."