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Louis left home at 15 and eventually moved to Grand Marais, Michigan, USA in 1895.

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Back row Left to right: Oscar, Delia, Leo, Amelia,Louis - front: Vern, Celima, Louis, Marie and Earl.

The Louis La Faive family, in Grand Marais,Michigan, had its inception on his arrival in 1893 with his new bride, Celima (Germain), not yet sixteen years old, and ended in October of 1917, when the family departed to take up permanent residence in Detroit.
In the intervening years the young couple had acquired a family of five boys and three girls, who continued a close family attachment throughout their lives.
In the early days in Grand Marais Louie and Celima took up residence in West Town, in the vicinity of what is now Woodland Park, where he built and had his home until about 1899, when he acquired a plot at the top of old "Plank Hill" and built his home in what is now the rising roadbed of M77 as it commences to the south to Seney. The home still stands, at the rear of the Dunes Motel, where it was moved by Charley Chilson, after acquiring it from the Manilla family.
Approximately 1910-1911, as all industry was terminating in town; the La Faives took up residency on the Schneider Farm, so-called, as operating managers for R.E. (Rudolph) Schneider. Themain and principal works of Louie were in the lumbering mills, as laborer, sawyer, handler, loader, and general handy-man, primarily and almost exclusively for Mr. Schneider, as he was always referred to, in his various business activities. Mr. Schneider was not only his employer, but also his friend, banker, confidant and advisor. It was only natural that finally, Mr. Schneider would so confidently rely on the responsibility and character of Louie to entrust the full management of his new and "modern" dairy farm to his care.
It may be of note that Louis was born "Lefebvre" in Quebec, left home when fourteen, was a lumberjack until meeting Celima, also from Canada, in Engadine, Michigan, and married at Manistique, Michigan. The name change came about through entry on his citizenship papers at Munising.
Mr. La Faive, with his eldest son, Oscar, who was then sixteen years of age, left Grand Marais in 1916 to pave the way for the others of the family to follow. A year later after settling the family affairs the rest of the family joined them. Their final departure occurred on October 4, 1917, that being the date of death of Mrs. La Faive exactly 50 years later.
In Detroit Mr. La Faive contributed several years in war work at the old Packard Motor Company that was manufacturing airplane motors. At the end of the war he was fortunate in opening what was then called a "Malt & Hops Store" for the sale of supplies and ingredients to make beer in one's home, a business which thrived from 1919 until the abolition of the dry law under the Roosevelt administration. Louis then worked in a factory until the age of 70 when he was injured on the job. He passed at the age of 80 from a heart attack.

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