My Journey Into My Past

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS PROJECT                                                                                                            Joseph Roy dit Chatellereau was born 28 December 1762 to Joseph Roy dit Chatellereau and Marie Louisa Laganiere, in LaParade QP.  He married Archange Toupin dit Dusseau on 19 May, 1794 at Ste Anne church Detroit, Michigan.  She was the daughter of Louis Joseph Dussault and Louisa Marguerite St Martin and wa...

St Antoine sur la riveier aux Raisins was founded by the settlers from French Canada who settled along the River Raisin and the Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec on October 15, 1788. 

Call it Snake Plant, like we all do, or call it Mothers-in-Laws tongue, it is a beautiful plant.  Growing in long spears, I have seen it up to 6 feet tall.  This plant has a long history in our family.  It used to be a small plant on my Grandmother Lena's window seat.  Just one of her many plants.  When she passed away in 1972 and her house was emptied, the lowly little plant went home with one of her children, and  was propagated and shared.  Divisions of the plant are still taken to family reunions for anyone who doesn't have one yet, and visitors to our homes (one of our 88 cousins or descendants of) are often asked to take one home.  There were more precious mementos that were divided among the nine children, and the multitude of grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren down the line. But no memento has been shared with so many family members and friends, as Grandma's Snake plant.