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The lives of our parents and
their
parents and so on are what genealogists hope to learn about. Dry
facts gathered in libraries and archives and even family trees
themselves,
are but the bare bones onto which the real challenge will be
arranged.
This challenge is to add personal details and allow us to perceive the
humanity of our long-departed relatives. While history tells us
about
great leaders and events, family histories strive to put ourselves and
our ancestors into those pictures, to make history in general
personally
relevant and meaningful. With Pilons on all continents and
speaking
a wide range of languages, there is much that we have to learn about
each
other and the worlds that our relatives have lived in and in many
cases,
helped build.
The Pilon stories below are about
events
that involved a Pilon. They are all examples of how our ancestors
lived. Some are involved and reflect a lot of research while
others
are reminiscences being shared; recollections of meaningful moments.
You are invited to contribute and
share
your memories or your research with Pilons around the world. If
you
have Pilon stories and images which you think would be of interest to
others,
please contact one of the Page Makers who will help you post this
information.
 Ambrose Pilon's Reminiscences
about Pilon's Bakery
Benefits Forgot, Kent College, Canterbury and Edward Pillow (1827-1909)
Pilons at the 1914-1918 Vigil
Germain Pilon Street, Paris, France
French-Canadian Battalions of the CEF and the Participation of French-Canadians in WWI
The Pilons of London, England, Threadneedle Street and Soho Square (updated January, 2010)
Well-Travelled Photographs; photos of
Grannies and Aunties
Dead of Starvation at the Fort of the Forks
The Letters Home from Vietnam of Cpl. Alan
Everett Pilon, USMC
This is Who We Are: The Launching of Mikinok, a
Pilon Canoe
If
Stones Could Speak, The Story of a Tombstone
The
Saint-Patrice Church, Bayeux, Normandy, FRANCE
The Antoine Pilon House in Pointe-Claire,
Québec, CANADA
"Return to The Antoine Pilon House", 1992,
Pointe-Claire, Québec, CANADA
The
Dedication of Antoine Pilon Park in Pointe-Claire, Québec, CANADA
A
Visit to Batoche, Saskatchwan, CANADA
A
Pilon in Viet-Nam: Alan Everett Pilon
A
Family Found
Notes
on the Pilons who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during
World War I
Lest
We Forget - Notes on Canadian Pilons who died or were wounded during
World Wars I & II
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