Toponymie | Canton de Potton | Place Names

Chemin Claude-George is located on the east side of Chemin du Lac, opposite a farm once belonging to the man after whom the road is named. 

Claude Urban George (1882-1962) was a great-grandson of Moses Hayes George (1771-1835) and his wife Abigail Channell, from Dunbarton, New Hampshire.  They were among one of the very earliest pioneer families.  Moses George homesteaded in Bolton, off Mountain Road in the vicinity of the George Pond located on that road.

Claude George was born in Vale Perkins, living and working locally until he purchased a farm on Chemin du Lac, in 1919, with his wife Mary Ann (May) Young from Mansonville.  Here they brought up four children.  In the 1950's, Mrs. George ran a popular summer boarding house called “Georgedale Farm”.  Both Claude and May George are interred in the Mansonville Protestant Cemetery.  Their son, Ben George, succeeded his father in the operation of the farm. 

The twin road to Chemin Claude-George is Chemin Harry-George, so named for similar reasons, described later in this volume.

Both Harry-George and Claude-George Roads lead to properties close to the lakeshore, and each passes through land once belonging to some member of the George family; a good reason, perhaps, for that section of Chemin du Lac to be affectionately (and locally) known as “George Street”!