Jeremiah (Jerry) is one of 8 children from Michael Ryan and Margaret Ryan (Donahue, perhaps Donahoe/Donaghey/Donohoe/Donohue/Donighey... french priests were poor spellers with Irish names pronounced with an Irish brogue!) who left Ireland and came to Springfield MA for a time with family and eventually moved to Rawdon Quebec Canada taking up with the land grant program. Parcels were 200 acres each and he ended buying a second or third over time. He was a "farmer" but the soils are quite rocky/sandy so not the best for crops. He signed various church records as "Jeramiah", with an "a".

It might've been much later for the family farm, maybe even after Jerry's death, the family grew pines for Christmas trees and the kids made garlands to sell in Montreal. I think Jerry put in a pond/lake and built cottages around it that he'd rent out in summers. Eldest daughter Mary Jane (Jenny) Rivest and her family built and sold cottages around the land (unless that was near Lak Clair (Lake Clear) where son Michael had a cottage - I may have jumbled these stories from mom)).

"Jerry" and wife "Maggie" (also Mag, Meg) had a boat load of kids, 13 in all. Quite a change in number between the the 1891 and 1901 Canadian/Quebec census. They wed Oct 4 1890 at the parish of Sainte-Julienne in the nearby town of the same name, which was Maggie's/parents parish.

There are many Redmonds there, still today. Their first child was Mary Jane ("Aunt Jenny") to my mom, born in 1892. I've found the Irish or at least my family were terrible with dates and none of their kids went by their given names! My Grandma Louise (Mary Louisa Alida) was child #7 born Sept. 1900. She fibbed about her age by 5 years to my grandfather, who was born in 1905, this way she 'wasn't older' than he. Her paperwork after she passed revealed 1902 but not until researching family genealogy did the Drouin collection/census reveal it was 1900.

My mother's cousin Robert D. showed an immigration doc where "Jerry" stated he was age 58 (approx. 1920?) going to Springfield MA to visit sister Margaret (Maggie) Pierce (husb Thomas).