Auguste Dupuis and Henri Menier at the Paris World’s Fair

Auguste Dupuis brought back a plan from Paris showing the location of the horticultural and arboricultural pavilions in the heart of the city. See the tip of the black arrow. Dupuis wrote the following on the plan: Expo fruits de tous les pays.

Based on Dupuis’ documents and the accounts of his children, we know that Henri Menier, the chocolate maker and owner of Anticosti Island since 1895, had visited the nursery. According to the plan shown below, the two men also met at the Paris World’s Fair. Under the date, it is written: M. Menier and M. Martin-Zédé (Menier’s confidant) visited the Canadian office.

Menier was transforming his island into a hunting paradise. He had built a road and wanted to reforest both sides of it. He made this sketch, which Auguste Dupuis kept. Later, Menier visited the nursery and ordered around a hundred ash, birch and shrub trees. The trees were shipped to Anticosti Island with the workers who were to plant them.

Transcript of the text on the left, written by Auguste Dupuis: [TRANSLATION] This sketch was drawn by hand by Mr. Menier and Albert kept it.

Transcript of the text at the bottom: [TRANSLATION] Route de l’île d’Anticosti each side of this beautiful macadam road Mr. Henri Menier would like to plant fruit trees. He asked me to examine the soil.