I have just returned from St. Raymond and learnt some additional facts
anent the Dérys I found interesting, and detail them for public benefit.
The daughter-in-law of Joseph Déry said her father-in-law was the first,
except sportsmen and Indians, who had ever been to St. Raymond; a little
pathway through the woods was their inroad. He started to find the
River St. Anne, which runs through St. Raymond; he found his walk very
fatiguing from Lorette, and arriving at the Cape, under which runs the
St. John railway now, was delighted to find he was nearing his
destination. He named the hill Cap Joyeuse, which name it still bears.
On wishing to see the first cabin he had built, she said, by recent
surveys, it would be situated in the middle of the river, as the waters
of the St Anne river had gradually washed the bank away. The end of the
first cottage built is still extant, every plank used in it being sawed
by hand, and the portrait of Mr. Joseph Déry hangs on its walls.
*ST. AUGUSTIN,*