Excerpts from LePailleur’s diary 3

Translated transcript:

(June 24, 1844) Mr. Dumas came to tell us that the rest of the pardons had arrived for us. 29 of which I and my two companions Goyette and Toussaint Rochon are in.

(July 9, 1844) Thank God we are leaving our land of exile. Farewell a thousand and one times, land of exile! land of slavery! land of a thousand sorrows for four years and four and a half months, not counting the trouble of my beloved wife and my two dear little boys.

(July 24, 1845) Names of my fellow passengers in the Achilles: M. Huot, Bousquet, Lanctôt, Turcot, Goyette, the three Roy, Ed.-P. Rochon and Toussaint Rochon, Guertin, Touchette, Ducharme, Prévost, Dumouchelle, Buisson, the two Thibert, both Leblanc, Lareine,
Lavoie, Bigonesse, both Hébert, Béchard, Langevin, Laberge, Defaillette, both Longtin, Robert, Pascal Pinsonnault, Papineau, Alarie, Guérin, Paré and me. John Hamburge and 15 remained in Sydney, who are Guimond, Trudel, Dr. Newcomb, both Mr. Morin, René Pinsonnault, Languedoc, Marceau, Langlois, Bourbonnais, Bouc, Jérémie Rochon, Joseph Goyette, Gagnon and Prieur.