A Very Talented Father
Video produced by Philippe Dubois
Interview and camera by Martin Fournier
Informant: Jeanine Lachance (daughter of F-X Lachance)
Photographs of the plans: Martin Fournier, Jean-François Lachance collection
Jeanine Lachance tells how her father was intuitive and gifted for the transposition of plans.
Jeanine Lachance, daughter of François-Xavier Lachance, in her kitchen. She speaks to an interviewer to the right side of the camera.
[Jeanine Lachance] To calculate, to make his calculations, I do not know how … how it was in his head, but I had to multiply my measures to evaluate the quantity of wood, but him in his head, he arrived at the same answer as me and then … don’t ask me how he was doing it. I was trying to tell him “explain me”, but he could not explain. It was instinctive for him.