Category: People

Lécy farm

Photo taken at the Lécy farm in Mont-Carmel as part of Les visages de la run de lait exhibition, held at the Musée québécois de l’agriculture et de […]

Bread oven with a shelter

This photograph of daily life in the past was taken at the Paradis family’s home in Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie. Baking bread was a regular and necessary task given […]

Baking bread

It’s a hot summer day, and these residents of Saint-Aubert were are taking the opportunity to bake their bread outdoors. In the past, almost every family living in […]

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.

Emiko giving a presentation

Emiko at the “Souper des Saveurs” dinner party organized by the Club Richelieu in La Pocatière in 2023.

Delivering bread

Sons of the owner of the Leclerc bakery in La Pocatière delivering bread by horse-drawn carriage.

Butchering

Butchering means to slaughter animals for meat. It includes all stages of the butchering process, such as slaughtering, cutting, and preparing cuts of meat for consumption. Traditionally, this […]

Harvesting hay

Hay harvesting in the 20th century, before the advent of mechanization, was a labour-intensive but essential task for farmers. The entire family, including women and children, participated in […]

A group of workers in a logging camp

A group of workers in a logging camp. The men in white, known as “cooks,” were in charge of the kitchen. The cooks were responsible for preparing meals […]

Life in a logging camp

In November, many people from the region would gather in the logging camps where they worked six days a week, from morning till night. The work involved felling […]

The Baker

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 […]