Célina-Elmire LePailleur

Célina-Elmire LePailleur was born in Châteauguay on May 11, 1860. She was the daughter of notary Alfred-Narcisse LePailleur and Philomène Dalton. During her youth, she studied piano with Victoria Cartier.

In 1881, at the age of 21, she married lawyer Joseph-Adélard Descarries in her hometown and then moved to Lachine, where she gave birth to her 10 children, 4 of whom died in infancy.

Of her surviving sons, one became an engineer-chemist, another a lawyer, and the third a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher. One of her daughters became a soprano singer and the other died of a short illness at the age of 28.

Célina-Elmire died on August 2, 1924, at the age of 64, only 4 years after her father.

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Mde J.A. Descarries