extending from Grand-Métis, l'Anse-aux-Coques, Father's Point, St-Barnabé to the Hâtée river. All these transactions are supplemented about 1701. One thus realizes that Lepage de Ste-Claire did not want to waste time to establish his family durably. He is, at this date, the Lord of a territory of more than 50 km of sea front on the littoral of St-Lawrence river. Heritage Of René Lepage's progeny, four girls became nuns, his eldest son, Pierre de St-Barnabé, took the seigniory and cleared it with the profit of his family, and his second boy, Louis Lepage de Ste-Claire, priest and canon, was born in St-François from the Ile d'Orleans. He acquired the seigniory of Terrebonne on September 2, 1720. He quickly developed the land surrounding Mille-île river; he had a church built with a presbytery, four flour mills and a lumber mill, which created of an important industrial centre in New France, after Quebec City and Montreal. The descendants of René Lepage have settled across North America, from Canada to the south-west of the United States over the years. Bibliography Jean-Charles Fortin, Antonio Lechasseur et al., Histoire du Bas-St-Laurent, Quebec, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture IQRC, 1993. Reynald Lepage et al., Dictionnaire généalogique des Familles LEPAGE, Tome 1 and 2, Second Edition, Québec, Association des Lepage d'Amérique Inc., 2004. Jeannot Bourdages, Paul Larocque et al., Rimouski depuis ses origines, Rimouski, Société d'histoire du Bas-St-Laurent, Société de généalogie et d'archives de Rimouski, Université du Québec à Rimouski (GRIDEQ), 2006. External links Association des Lepage d'Amérique 1656 births 1718 deaths People from Yonne French emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec People of New France History of Rimouski