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Seed catalogue page 1894-1895. Title: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES FOR CANADA, subtitle Price of plants at the Village des Aulnaies nursery. List of fruit trees with height and prices. Comments on the quality of plants adapted to the Canadian climate, specific varieties. Printed in brown on yellowed paper, borders, fruit illustrations.
Seed catalogue cover 1951. Centred uppercase title: Catalogue de GRAINES de SEMENCE pour le Potager Familial (Seed Catalogue for the Family Vegetable Garden). 1951 between decorative lines (top). Below: Voir graines de fleurs page 8 (See flower seeds page 8) (left, stylized tree), et ARBRISSEAUX (and SHRUBS) (vertical centre), Voir Marronniers page 10 (See Chestnut Trees page 10) (right, stylized tree). Bottom (large letters): Lucien Dubé, Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. Bottom left: Comté Kamouraska, Qué. (Kamouraska County, Que.). Bottom right: Case Postale 248 Téléphone 405-s-3 (Post Office Box 248 Telephone 405-s-3). Cream background.
Black and white portrait from a low angle: middle-aged man (Lucien Dubé) lying on his back, looking directly at the camera. Dark hair, receding hairline, thin mustache. Shirt, jacket, and tie. Cigar between his lips. Left arm bent above his head, hand touching his hair.
Sepia portrait: seated elderly man, light gray hair, dark suit holding an open book on his lap. Right page of the book: handwritten inscription Aug. Dupuis, Horticulturist, 1903, mention of circulation/publication. Neutral dark background. Decorative black frame with gold motifs, inscription PORTRAIT ALBUM (bottom).
Summary table of 456 seed varieties (Maurice Couture, 1930s). Study board made of 20 framed rectangular sections and multiple circular seed capsules. Visual botanical study board for seeds, diversity of cultivated and studied species.
Three taxidermied green sea urchins on a plain gray surface. Front: two whole sea urchins (different sizes, brown/green spines). Back: a third smaller sea urchin in a clear glass jar with a black lid. Beige label on the jar: Echinoderm Collection, sea urchin, OZ 74, name of a biological laboratory in Cooksville, Ontario, Canada.
Black and white photograph of two men flensing a sturgeon. Centre: man with a tool working on the long fish. Left: man looking at the camera. Right: child near a wooden cart. Outdoors, building and metal bucket in the foreground on the right.
Black and white photograph (1910s): three people in a boat on calm water near a rocky shore. Tight foreground: wooden canoe (three people paddling, light clothing). Left: another canoe. Background: rugged rocky coast, distant islands/land on the horizon. Scene in Kamouraska.
Sepia photograph (around 1910): two women sitting on rocks by the water's edge. Background: shore (grass, trees, buildings). Foreground: part of a boat (photo likely taken from a boat). Coastal/riverside scene.
Black and white photograph (1937): two men weir fishing at Île aux Patins, Kamouraska. They stand in the shallow water inside the weir (interwoven branches). Men with round dip nets. Dense branch structure with light vertical integrated stakes.
Black and white photograph (1936): men building a fish weir. Two men on a wooden structure drive stakes into the ground with mallets. Another man on the ground prepares/ handles the materials). Right: ox (transports materials /assists with construction).
Black and white photograph: Flavius Ouellet standing in shallow water next to a fish weir (interwoven branches). Left: partially submerged two-wheeled wooden cart. Weir: shelter/barrier, rectangular opening (fish entrance/passage). Île aux Patins, Kamouraska: traditional fishing.
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