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Bread oven with a shelter

Black and white photograph: woman standing near an outdoor bread oven. She holds a long wooden stick. Oven made of wood and stone, worn shingle roof. Fence in the background, distant rural landscape. Atmosphere of a time when outdoor cooking was common.

Archives de la Côte-du-Sud, Simone Paradis Collection.

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 the many mouths that had to be fed in the family. The oven shown here was protected from the elements by a shingle shelter.