{"id":7878,"date":"2016-11-25T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T19:51:06","slug":"dr-louis-lapierre-of-clear-lake-1931-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/dr-louis-lapierre-of-clear-lake-1931-2016\/7878","title":{"rendered":"Dr Louis Lapierre of Clear Lake  (1931-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you arrive in Dunany from Lachute, your eyes are directed to St. Paul&#8217;s Church. Just opposite lies Dr. Louis Lapierre&#8217;s Dunany residence.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lapierre passed away earlier this month at the age of 85.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Louis-Lapierre.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7880 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Louis-Lapierre-150x150.png\" alt=\"louis-lapierre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was an\u00a0 internist and a\u00a0 nephrologist (kidney specialist) .\u00a0 For more than a decade he headed the department of medicine at l&#8217;H\u00f4pital Notre-Dame de Montr\u00e9al, now le Centre hopitalier universitraire de Montr\u00e9al (CHUM). He also taught medicine at l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He arrived in Dunany in 1972 when he bought the 85 acre property from Grattan Thompson who had built a farm there. His grand daughter <span class=\"il\">Lyn<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Bartram<\/span> wrote to me a couple of summers ago wanting to know if there was still a farm there!<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of Dr Lapierre&#8217;s property as seen from the lake that I took for Lyn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Maison-Louis-Lapierre-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Maison-Louis-Lapierre-2-1024x361.jpg\" alt=\"maison-louis-lapierre-2\" width=\"641\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Maison-Louis-Lapierre-2-1024x361.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Maison-Louis-Lapierre-2-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Maison-Louis-Lapierre-2-768x271.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>But here in Dunany, we will remember Louis Lapierre the generous man. He made the expansion of the cemetery possible by granting the Church the necessary land.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us knew him well and enjoyed his company. Witness this first SPANK departure (2009) from his property then lead by Revilla Sauv\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>This is our final salute to you, Louis Lapierre our friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre-1024x492.jpg\" alt=\"Revilla's paddlers at Clear Lake\" width=\"642\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre-1024x492.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SPANK-Louis-Lapierre.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held on December 1 at \u00a0Complexe Fun\u00e9raire Mont-Royal, 1297 chemin de la For\u00eat in Outremont.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you arrive in Dunany from Lachute, your eyes are directed to St. Paul&#8217;s Church. Just opposite lies Dr. Louis Lapierre&#8217;s Dunany residence. Dr Lapierre passed away earlier this month at the age of 85. He was an\u00a0 internist and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7905,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}