The Fifth Generation

    Like his father and grandfather before him Tom McCool was married in the Church of St. Alphonsus in Chapeau. The bride was Maria Kennedy from the head of Allumette Island. They lived most of their married life at the farm in Chichester and eventually moved to Pembroke. Tom McCool was one of the first to realize that lumbering was more profitable than farming. He was also involved in politics and horse racing. They had 9 children. Leona died of an apparent heart attack when she was only 12 years old and Joe, a soldier in the Canadian army, died in Belgium in 1945.