Musée de la mémoire vivante (Museum of Living Memory)
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The Last Beluga Fisherman
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Gaff head
55 of 115 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
56 of 115 		Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
57 of 115 		Belugas on the shore before being cut up
58 of 115 		Oil cans of various sizes for lubricating delicate mechanisms
59 of 115 		Valved oil can made of copper
60 of 115
Earthenware containers for storing oil and food
61 of 115 		Oil lamps
62 of 115 		Mgr. Charles-Édouard Poiré, priest at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1875 to 1896
63 of 115 		Intercolonial Railway locomotive and cars
64 of 115 		Wooden trunk covered in beluga leather that belonged to Thomas Chapais
65 of 115 		Leather strop for sharpening razors
66 of 115
Émile Lizotte on his farm in Pointe-de-Rivière-Ouelle
67 of 115 		Box of laces made by E.B. Balmforth in England
68 of 115 		Balmforth laces made of beluga leather (flat in the centre and round on both sides)
69 of 115 		On the right, a 100-gallon barrel, like those used to store beluga oil
70 of 115 		Wool wound into a ball using part of a beluga vertebra
71 of 115 		Letterhead of the British American Oil Company Limited, one of Joseph Lizotte's customers
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