Musée de la mémoire vivante (Museum of Living Memory)
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The Last Beluga Fisherman
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Beluga tail, pierced and with a cable attached, to anchor it to the "menoires"
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Beluga fishery employees stripping a mammal of its blubber
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Workers start cutting up belugas, even before all are on the beach
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Carving up a beluga using knives and iron hooks
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Men looking at belugas stripped of their skin and blubber
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Gaff head
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The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
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Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
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Belugas on the shore before being cut up
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Oil cans of various sizes for lubricating delicate mechanisms
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Valved oil can made of copper
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Mgr. Charles-Édouard Poiré, priest at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1875 to 1896
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Leather strop for sharpening razors
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Émile Lizotte on his farm in Pointe-de-Rivière-Ouelle
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On the right, a 100-gallon barrel, like those used to store beluga oil
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Letter from Canac-Marquis, a glue manufacturer
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Gathering during the extraordinary catch of 1929
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Dignitaries and Joseph Lizotte Sr., during the extraordinary catch of May 1929
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