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The Last Beluga Fisherman
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Inuit sculpture - Man riding a beluga
1 of 19 		Basque fisherman
2 of 19 		Reverend Henri-Raymond Casgrain (1831-1904)
3 of 19 		The last beluga fisherman, Émile Lizotte, tells the story of the family fishery
4 of 19 		Émile Lizotte killing a beluga with a spontoon
5 of 19 		Horse hauling beluga carcass ashore
6 of 19
Boy hauling a recently captured beluga ashore
7 of 19 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
8 of 19 		Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
9 of 19 		Belugas on the shore before being cut up
10 of 19 		Mgr. Charles-Édouard Poiré, priest at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1875 to 1896
11 of 19 		Intercolonial Railway locomotive and cars
12 of 19
Émile Lizotte on his farm in Pointe-de-Rivière-Ouelle
13 of 19 		Émile Lizotte working at his eel fishery
14 of 19 		Man hunting beluga with a gun, possibly for the $15-per-tail premium
15 of 19 		Parliament Building, Legislative Assembly debates, 17th Legislature, 2nd Session
16 of 19 		Dead beluga washed up on shore
17 of 19 		Dead belugas must be treated as toxic waste
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