Andy Bouchard made this agreement with his father on his father's birthday. When Lionel hired his nephew Roger Houde to harvest the trees, Andy refused to allow him on the property. Lionel Bouchardlost $8,000 the market value of the trees.In addition, Lionel Bouchard had planted a second row along side his trees for Andy Bouchard who benefited from his years of hoeing and tending to the sucklings.
On one occasion, Lionel Bouchard arrived from a trip to the States delivering grain dryers for Ron Chabot, only to find a tree-harvesting machine in the field whereby the individual hired by Andy quickly disappeared when Lionel arrived unexpectedly.
Lionel learned that Harry Dufresne had been given Lionel Bouchard's trees in exchange for flooring for Andy's cabin in Kenora - without his father's permission. Lynda Staub also benefited from some of her father's trees that he learned later had also been removed from his property.
Lionel Bouchard planted in excess of 19,655 trees over 48 years to build a "shelter" around the perimeter of the Bouchard Centennial Farm which Andy, his son, benefited from and thanked him by kicking him out of his humble rancher he built and has lived over fifty years when his father slip on ice at a friend's funeral and was hospitalized for a concussion! (Click here.)
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