Unraveling The Mystery Of The MS. Found In A Bottle

Recently, @stephen.king989 found a message in a bottle written in French floating in the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Photo courtesy of @stephen.king989

The details of that experience are detailed in his post here: https://steemit.com/message/@stephen.king989/i-found-a-message-in-a-bottle.

Intrigued by the mystery of who the creator of the message in the bottle is, I launched a research project.

Googling Felix-Antoine Quirion, the 7 year old author of the note, I found a Facebook page of an athletic man in his 20s or 30s. I also found a reference to that name in a list of people who were running a half-marathon. Could that be the same person?

This person seemed too old. Could he be the father of the 7 year old boy and have the same name? There were no references to family in the Facebook post, so I guessed I had stumbled on a coincidence. Further research revealed that there are 80 people with the surname Quirion in Sherbrooke. That is a lot of people to cold call with the crazy story that I am searching for a boy who wrote a message in a bottle.

Not to be disheartened, as I really love a mystery that needs solving, I continued my quest. Felix-Antoine was only 7 years old so I thought about calling schools, but then again, these days no one is going to cooperate with my crazy story about searching for a boy who wrote a message in a bottle.

Birth records and identity searches were not much help. But, then I tried an image search on "Felix-Antoine Quirion" and discovered this picture:

The caption of the picture read:

The Quirion-Martel family: Marie-France, Juliette, Félix-Antoine and Marianne.
IMACOM, RENÉ MARQUIS

and was writtern by Karine Tremblay a writer for "laTribune" in Canada. Furthermore, the boy in the picture looked to be around the age of the boy who wrote the message in a bottle.

I googled "Marie-France Quirion" and found a phone number. Perhaps, she is the boys mother or a relative. I called to get a French speaking woman on the line. I asked if she spoke English and while I was trying to explain my story she hanged up the phone. Not surprising. If I were to get a call about my 7 year old from a strange foreigner who did not speak my language, I might hang up too.

There remained the possibility of corresponding with "laTribune". After all, they are media and should be interested in this kind of human interest story. Meanwhile, I think found Karine Tremblay, the author of the article on Twitter. She might know the people in the photograph and have established lines of communication, or at least she would have a good reason to contact them and not be a total stranger.

I sent Karine this tweet, because a DM was not possible:
https://twitter.com/TheTranshuman/status/894324084636397568.
The tweet had this picture with it:

While I'm waiting for a reply to my Tweet, I am sending a message to "laTribune" to locate Karine Tremblay. I hope not speaking French won't be a big obstacle.

I look forward to suggestions and comments, and don't forget to upvote.

I will update this post with comments if there are any further developments in my research...