Can anyone tell me when the current church in St-Michel-d-Yamaska was built? I note that there appears to have been an addition to a previous church. The plaque on the church indicates it was formed in 1727 but I think this church appears more recent. Also, I visited the grave yard at the church this past summer but unable to find my GGGGRandparents Olivier Salvas (died after 1857) and Marguerite Pelletier-Salvas (died about 1853). Where else might they have been buried?
Thank you in advance!

Hello, I recently visited St-Michel and could not find many of my ancestors either. I read somewhere that burial plots are only leased, not bought, so when the lease runs out, 99 years was suggested, then a notice is put in the paper or a notice is sent to the family, and if no reply is received, or the family declines, then the people are disinterred, buried deeper, the stones are ground down for re-use (I didn't see any that looked like that), and the top layer re-leased. I live in a town founded in 1635 and our cemeteries are huge, yet the size of the ones I saw in Drummondville, Baie du Febvre and St-Michel were very modest. Most of the burials seemed to be in the 20th century. So I knew they were "there", just not identified. My sister and I drove all around Drummondville before we began to figure out they weren't kidding about this re-use of plots. I don't know anything about the church in St-Michel. St-Antoine in Baie du Febvre is the 6th church on that site, so St-Michel could very well be newer.

Informations find in the Drouin Collection :

Olivier Salva / son of Joseph & Josephte Cournoyer
Marriage : 24 july 1820, St-Michel d'Yamaska / born 20 february 1800, St-Michel d'Yamaska / died 08 february 1893, St-Michel d'Yamaska (when he born the family name was Salva dit Laviolette)
Marguerite Peltier (or Pelletier) / daughter of Paul & Thecle Gingras / born 28 december 1802, St-Michel d'Yamaska / died 05 november 1853, St-Michel d'Yamaska

Olivier Salva / widow of Marguerite Peltier
Marriage : 25 may 1857, St-Michel d'Yamaska
Julie Mondoux / widow of Maxime Salva

Maxime Salva / son of Jean-Baptiste & Judith Letendre / born 10 september 1800, St-Michel d'Yamaska / died 19 august 1854, St-Michel d'Yamaska
Marriage : 04 november 1828, St-Michel d'Yamaska
Julie Mondoux / daughter of Joseph & Louise Cardin-Loiseau / born 20 april 1811, St-Michel d'Yamaska / died 27 february 1876, St-Michel d'Yamaska

Have a good day,

Claire Lambert-Lemyre