Artist Info: La Bolduc

Mary Rose-Anna Travers, born June 4, 1894 in Newport in the Gaspé region of Quebec, Canada – died February 21, 1941, was a French-Canadian singer best known as La Bolduc.

Born in the Gaspé, she was the eldest of twelve children. The daughter of an Irish immigrant, Lawrence Travers, and a French-Canadian mother, Adeline Cyr, she moved with her family to Montreal in 1907. Mary and her eleven siblings spoke English at home, but also spoke French fluently. [read more...]