Photo by Jake Boudrot -- The old cemetery of Notre Dame de l’Assomption Church in Arichat was where some victims of the 1918 Spanish Flu were buried.

Thanks to a Facebook post by Dr. Steven DeRoche, the identities of local Spanish Flu victims have been made known. In the following columns, I hope to bring the identities of these victims to a wider audience. Marie Louise (Minnie) Samson was the daughter of Isaie Samson and Émilie Jeanne Boudreau. She was 33 years…

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