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Photo Friday (25th)

1 Comment / Cynthia Vadnais / July 26, 2024

The following 3 pictures came from 2 different sources, 3 if I count duplicates of the pictures. The last picture, for the most part, was a mystery when I first got it. There are still a few pieces of information missing, but I now believe that all of these are a part of the Thomas J. Houle family story.

**Circa 1905 – The Thomas J. Houle family, White Bear Lake**
**Back row (left to right): Dolphus, Albert and Vina**
**Front row (left to right): Thomas, Arthur (Archie), Wilfred, Lena and Mildred**
Thomas and Lena (Leona Rose Derosier) were my great-granduncle and great-grandaunt. Lena was one of great-grandma Celestine Peltier’s younger sisters, my grandmother Ellen Vadnais’ aunt. Around the time that this picture was taken, the family had moved to 3^rd Street in White Bear. When Ellen and Adlore married and moved to Jennie Vadnais’ house on 3^rd and Murray, Ellen’s Aunt Lena would have been nearby.

**Lena and Thomas Houle in 1943 celebrating their 50^th wedding anniversary**

1915 – Thomas Houle family home White Bear Lake, shown, left to right: unknown, unknown, Vina (Houle) LeVasseur, Lena (Derosier) Houle, Mildred Houle, Thomas Houle, Dolphus Houle and either Albert or Arthur Houle.
Washington School is in the background facing 4^th Street and the Houle house is on 3^rd Street between Murray and Miller facing south. Vina appears to be pregnant with her first son, Thomas Malcolm. I believe that the first picture in this post was taken by the side of this house.

Thanks for visiting, come back soon,
Cynthia

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