The LeMesurier family in front of the house Sunnyside, 1894
Private coll. (Caddell family).
Emily Andrews LeMesurier wanted a summer home in town, where a doctor and everything else necessary to caring for children would be close by (she eventually had nine!). Kamouraska was a prosperous small town and it fit her bill. A former pupil at the Ursuline convent in Québec, Emily was fully bilingual and so had no problem conversing with neighbours and local shopkeepers in French.