Portrait of Félix-Antoine Savard
![Black and white picture : official portrait of a man in clergyman clothing, wearing glasses.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/une-nature-qui-donne-vie_where-nature-is-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2020/04/P1000S4D83PS17.png)
Picture taken around 1937.
BAnQ Québec, Centre d’archives de Québec Collection (P1000,S4,D83,PS17).
God has never given a more beautiful present than clay to any people.
That is a quote from Félix-Antoine Savard, missionary and writer from the beginning of the 20th century, about the clay enclave in Abitibi, suitable for agriculture.