Category: General

Food as art

Arranged on a simple surface, these prints on a black background highlight the form, texture, and singularity of each specimen.

Builing a bread oven

Men from Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie building a bread oven in 1936. Many households baked this daily staple in their own oven.

The Baker

Boulangerie La Pocatière

La Pocatière bakery shortly after moving into its new premises in 1972.

Seed catalogue

Starting in spring 1945, Lucien Dubé operated a vegetable and flower seed business. The seeds were imported products that had become scarce due to the war, and were […]

Lucien Dubé

Born on May 2, 1911, in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière to Joseph Dubé and Rosanna Pelletier, Lucien Dubé studied at the parish school and then at the École supérieure d’agriculture de […]

Auguste Dupuis (1839-1922)

Auguste Dupuis, the son of merchant Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Justine Letellier de Saint-Just, was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies on June 17, 1839. After completing his studies at Collège Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière […]

Summary table presenting 456 varieties of seeds

Summary table presenting 456 varieties of seeds, made between 1938 and 1940 by Maurice Couture (1912-1957). Seeds encapsulated in 19 sealed frames, wood, glass, cardboard, adhesive tape, ink. […]

Fish weir at the island

Weir fishing involved using fixed structures called weirs (fascines) made of branches woven between stakes. These structures led fish towards an enclosure where they were trapped by the […]

Building a fish weir in 1936

Men are planting wooden stakes in the ground at regular intervals. These stakes, which were often made of black spruce, formed the basic structure of a fish weir.

Île aux Patins, around 1920

The Kamouraska Islands, including Île aux Patins, were places where people lived and worked. Local families exploited maritime resources for their subsistence and to support the local economy. […]

Kamouraska, from Grosse île

Kamouraska from Grosse Île, August 1874, Anna Dawson Harrington (1851-1917), watercolour. This work captures the magnificent view of Kamouraska from Grosse Île, with its  precious glimpses of the […]