Age 90, of Ch\u00e9ticamp, Inverness County, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 surrounded by his family.\u00a0 Born in Ch\u00e9ticamp, he was the son of the late Anselme and the late Zo\u00e9 (Deveau) Boudreau.\u00a0 G\u00e9rard loved working outdoors at his cabin on Ch\u00e9ticamp Island, playing crib, listening to fiddle music and french Acadian songs and spending time with family and friends.\u00a0 He was a devout Catholic and parishioner of \u00c9glise St. Pierre, Ch\u00e9ticamp.\u00a0 He was a community leader all his life, as a local business owner (Ch\u00e9ticamp Welding and Machine Shop) since 1958, member and later Chief of the Ch\u00e9ticamp Volunteer Fire Department, and a member of the 4th degree Knights of Columbus.\u00a0 G\u00e9rard loved his home community of Ch\u00e9ticamp and spent his entire life contributing to its development and ensuring that people always remembered and understood its history.\u00a0 Ch\u00e9ticamp would not have been the same without him.\u00a0 Among his many accomplishments, both big and small, were the installation of interpretive signs on the Quai Mathieu to explain the history of the local Gypsum Mine; the publication of the history of the Ch\u00e9ticamp Volunteer Fire Department, and his father’s memoirs (from which he contributed the profits to the installation of the cross at the new community cemetery).\u00a0 But to us, his children and grandchildren, he was simply our beloved Pape and P\u00e9p\u00e8re:\u00a0a good and kind man.\u00a0 We will miss him.<\/p>\n
G\u00e9rard is survived by his wife of 52 years, Dorothy; his children Denise (Lawrence), G\u00e9raldine (Joe), Geoffrine (Mark), and Harold (Kristen); his grandchildren Alex, Sam, Ben, Gabby, Henry, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Moira, Connor, and Kathryn; great grandchildren Ben and Isabela; brother Edmond; and many nieces and nephews.\u00a0 Predeceased by brothers Wilfred, Arthur, Tassien, Simon Pierre, Laurent, and sisters Marie Yvonne, Bernadette, and Beatrice.\u00a0 The family wishes to thank Dr. Sonier and the nurses at Sacred Heart Community Health Centre, and Drs. LaPierre, McGory and Klassen and the nurses at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, for the excellent care and kindness they gave our father during his\u00a0illness.<\/p>\n
Visitation at the Ch\u00e9ticamp Funeral Home on Sunday, September 1st from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm.\u00a0 Funeral mass will be celebrated at \u00c9glise St Pierre, Ch\u00e9ticamp, on Monday, September 2nd at 10:30 am., with Reverend Bill Burke officiating.\u00a0 Interment at a later date.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Age 90, of Ch\u00e9ticamp, Inverness County, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 surrounded by his family.\u00a0 Born in Ch\u00e9ticamp, he was the son of the late Anselme and the late Zo\u00e9 (Deveau) Boudreau.\u00a0 G\u00e9rard loved working outdoors at his cabin on Ch\u00e9ticamp Island, playing crib, listening to fiddle music and french Acadian songs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheticampfuneralservices.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}