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The Last Beluga Fisherman
Hot Spot: Processing and by-products

 
Beluga fishery employees stripping a mammal of its blubber
1 of 21 		Carving up a beluga using knives and iron hooks
2 of 21 		Men looking at belugas stripped of their skin and blubber
3 of 21 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
4 of 21 		Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
5 of 21 		Belugas on the shore before being cut up
6 of 21
Oil cans of various sizes for lubricating delicate mechanisms
7 of 21 		Earthenware containers for storing oil and food
8 of 21 		Oil lamps
9 of 21 		Mgr. Charles-Édouard Poiré, priest at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1875 to 1896
10 of 21 		Intercolonial Railway locomotive and cars
11 of 21 		Wooden trunk covered in beluga leather that belonged to Thomas Chapais
12 of 21
Leather strop for sharpening razors
13 of 21 		Émile Lizotte on his farm in Pointe-de-Rivière-Ouelle
14 of 21 		Box of laces made by E.B. Balmforth in England
15 of 21 		Balmforth laces made of beluga leather (flat in the centre and round on both sides)
16 of 21 		On the right, a 100-gallon barrel, like those used to store beluga oil
17 of 21 		Wool wound into a ball using part of a beluga vertebra
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