With the last pair, however, there had been a return to the earlier ceremonious manner-Telesphore ...

Alma Rose.

"When the boys get back we are going to make land," the father had promised.

And, with the help of Edwige Legare, their hired man, they set about the task.
In the Province of Quebec there is much uncertainty in the spelling and the use of names.

A scattered people in a huge half-wild country, unlettered for the most part and with no one to turn to for counsel but the priests, is apt to pay attention only to the sound of names, caring nothing about their appearance when written or the sex to which they pertain.