Edouard LaBerge & Josephte Suprenant
Oakwood Township, North Dakota
circa 1880s

Edouard LaBerge married Josephte Suprenant at St. Martin, Quebec, which is approximately 25 miles south of Montreal. There are many descendants of the LaBerge family remaining in that area today. Mr. and Mrs. LaBerge and family homesteaded in Oakwood Township in 1879. Their son, Joseph, was 18 at the time. Edouard was one of the first three advisors or trustees of the newly organized Mission of Oakwood and was instrumental in completing the building of the first church in June 1881. The other two trustees were Stanislas LaRoche and Joseph Brunelle; Jr. Edouard was re-elected to the trusteeship in 1838 until 1894. They had seven children: Arthur, Dosithee, Jean Baptiste, Joseph, Eudoxie (Mrs. Alfred Sevigny), Eveline (Mrs. Stanislas LaRoche), and Olivine (Mrs. Ovide Collette). Edouard LaBerge died in 1900.

This photograph is from the 50th Anniversary Book of Sacred Heart Parish in Oakwood, published in 1930. The identity of the child in the photograph is unknown.

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