St. Catherine’s Day in 1950 – Claire Prud’homme

Here, read the transcript of the interview with Claire Prud’homme, a  member of the Cercle de Fermières Saint-Eustache in the 1940s and in the 1950s .

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There used to be a party for St. Catherine’s Day. The… Fermières would always put on a party for St. Catherine’s Day. And that year, the year I turned 25, they gave me the hat [laughter]. I won – I still have it. I had the winning St. Catherine’s Day hat, and I won a little clock. I still have it. But there was someone calling a square dance, and after that there was waltzing, too. That’s right, and there were, there were good musicians back then. They weren’t… like these days. They were… there were good musicians. It was the fiddle, the guitar, and all that. It was, there were good musicians.