Antique JOSEPH DROUIN 'Genealogy FAMILY Tree REV JOSEPH HORACE GALINEAU Painting

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ORIGINAL GENEALOGY FAMILY TREE OF REVEREND JOSEPH HORACE GELINEAU CREATED BY 'JOSEPH DROUIN, AVOCAT  164 SOMMERVILLE, MONTREAL' PAINTED BY GERMAINE ROBERT
This is just a great original piece. I have bought and sold quite a few family tree pieces in the past but I have to say this might be one of the finest, rarest, and coolest.  First thing that makes this so great is that it is a one of a kind painting created with watercolor, pen & ink and gold markers.  A wonderful painting of the countryside at the bottom with sunsets behind and this wonderful tree coming up the middle.  In the entire wash of the canopy of the tree there is the past 8 generations of both the maternal and paternal family.  The earliest dates I can find are around 1648.  There is an artist signature in the lower right corner of "Germaine Robert".  Across the tree in French it says that it is the family tree of Reverend Joseph Horace Gelineau.  The biography I found for Reverend Gelineau reads : "
Father Gelineau was the son of Godfroy Norbert Achille Gelineau, "Archie,"( Feb 1859 - 1917)and Marie Heloise Bordeleau(Dec 1858 - 1921). Both parents were born in Quebec. The family can be found on the 1900 Census for North Adams. Siblings included brothers: Charles, Homer and Clovis. His brother Homer,(1882-1920)was a doctor of allopathy and was born in North Admas, MA and died in an auto accident in Easthampton, MA. Clovis lived from 1885-1969.
Father was ordained 18 December 1909 in Montreal. In 1920 Father Gelineau was in Holyoke at Precious Blood parish with Fathers Charles Crevier (age 80), Paul Roy (age 36) and John Messier (age 32).
It the time when Father Gelineau filled out a World War II draft card, he was pastor of St. Mary's Church in Spencer
."
This comes right out of a Spencer estate and it makes sense as that is where the Reverend had past.  I am guessing this was done in the end of the 19th Century just before the family came to America.  To make this piece even more special and probably one of the most important things about this piece is that lower right it says that it was created by 'Joseph Drouin, Avocat  164 Sommerville Montreal'  Joseph Drouin is one of the most important, if not the most important Canadian Genealogist.  For those not familiar with Drouin I have included his biography below.  The painting is on a sheet of paper that measures about 28 x 21 inches.  It is in excellent all original condition.  Really stunning.  Original frame is complimentary and ready to hang.  Just some very minor scuffing.  Do your own research on this piece.  Dont miss this one of a kind piece of important Genealogical history.  Frame measures 31 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches.
For those not familiar with Joseph Drouin from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography reads: "
DROUIN, JOSEPH
(baptized
Joseph‑Firmin
), lawyer and genealogist; b. 15 Nov. 1875 in Sainte‑Scholastique (Mirabel), Que., son of Firmin Drouin, a farmer, and Mathilde Lafrance; m. 22 Nov. 1904 Orpha Leduc in the parish of Saint‑Jacques in Montreal, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 6 Oct. 1937 in Montreal and was buried there three days later at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. Joseph Drouin pursued his classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Sainte‑Thérèse. His outstanding results enabled him to attend the faculty of law at McGill University, where he twice won the Prince of Wales Medal. He was called to the bar of the province of Quebec in 1904. In the course of his career he was associated with various lawyers and would form the firm of Drouin et Chaussé during the late 1920s, for instance. He also devoted himself to genealogy, which would become for him a commercial activity. He produced his earliest genealogies around 1913 at his summer home in Pointe-au-Père (Rimouski); in about 1920 he started drawing them up at his Montreal law office, which would change location over the years.
When he began putting together his first genealogies, for friends, Drouin had scarcely any reliable resources. Abbé Cyprien
Tanguay*
’
s
Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes
depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu’à nos jours
, published in seven volumes between 1871 and 1890, certainly constituted a prodigious and significant work, but it was incomplete and contained many errors. Consequently, Drouin’s research was time-consuming and costly, involving frequent travel to consult church and village records. He persisted, however, and devised an efficient working method. In 1917 he published, at the printing house of the Montreal daily
Le
Devoir
, his 15-page brochure titled
Votre généalogie
. At a time when genealogists examined the relationships of people bearing the same surname, Drouin was interested, rather, in direct ascending genealogy; he researched all of a person’s paternal and maternal ancestors. By the time
Votre
généalogie
was issued, he had already compiled about a hundred family trees.
Drouin made several trips to France, where he acquired many reference works on history and heraldic research. He readily acknowledged, in conversation and in writing, that he belonged to the Société Historique de Montréal. He shared his passion for genealogy with the Franciscan Archange
Godbout*
, another member of the society who also travelled to France, both to teach and to gather information. Though he was much better known than Drouin, Godbout pursued genealogy just for his own pleasure. The pioneer of genealogy as a commercial enterprise, Drouin used two corporate names: Les
Généalogies Drouin Enregistré and Joseph Drouin Généalogies et Armoiries. Over the years he compiled approximately 1,200 genealogies and created more than 500,000 index cards. The methodology of this workhorse was rigorous, his findings being verified and supported by references to sources. Each genealogy was typed up as a single copy and bound in hardcovers. Drouin prefaced the works with a brief history concerning some of the client’s ancestors, and left a few blank pages at the end so that the client could add the names of collateral descendants. He also provided a splendid complementary large-format family tree with magnificent colour and calligraphy. As he explained in
Votre généalogie
, this tree enabled one “to see at a single glance and without any cross references the
511 ancestors from the first to the eighth generation.”
Drouin sought a well-to-do and well-known clientele. He drew up, notably, the genealogies of Arthur
Berthiaume
and Louis-Joseph Tarte, who respectively owned the Montreal dailies
La Presse
and
La Patrie
, as well as those of notary Victor Morin, political figures such as Sir Lomer
Gouin*
, Louis-Athanase
David*
, Ésioff-Léon
Patenaude*
, and many priests, lawyers, and industrialists. He published his last known work on 19 Jan. 1937. The 31-page study, sold by the newspaper
Le Devoir
, was put together rapidly following the death of the famous Brother André [Alfred
Bessette
] on 6 January. Titled
Le frère André: sa généalogie – ses plus frappants miracles
, the booklet is elementary and does not do justice to Drouin’s work as a whole. Soon after Drouin died, his son Gabriel bought the company and renamed it the Institut Généalogique Drouin; it would still be in existence at the beginning of the 21st century. In its new premises at 4184 Rue
Saint‑Denis, at the corner of Rue Rachel, the firm would grow rapidly thanks to the business acumen of its new owner.
Despite its limited commercial success, Joseph Drouin’s business gained credibility in the small world of genealogy. The founder, whose portrait was painted by Léo Ayotte, established a methodology and bequeathed a research archive that enabled the firm to thrive, and at the same time inspired many families to take an interest in their ancestors and family histories. The research tool that he created has become indispensable to genealogists.
"
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