Musée de la mémoire vivante (Museum of Living Memory)
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The Last Beluga Fisherman

 
Gaff head
55 of 116 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
56 of 116 		Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
57 of 116 		Belugas on the shore before being cut up
58 of 116 		Oil cans of various sizes for lubricating delicate mechanisms
59 of 116 		Valved oil can made of copper
60 of 116
Earthenware containers for storing oil and food
61 of 116 		Oil lamps
62 of 116 		Mgr. Charles-Édouard Poiré, priest at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière from 1875 to 1896
63 of 116 		Intercolonial Railway locomotive and cars
64 of 116 		Wooden trunk covered in beluga leather that belonged to Thomas Chapais
65 of 116 		Leather strop for sharpening razors
66 of 116
Émile Lizotte on his farm in Pointe-de-Rivière-Ouelle
67 of 116 		Box of laces made by E.B. Balmforth in England
68 of 116 		Balmforth laces made of beluga leather (flat in the centre and round on both sides)
69 of 116 		On the right, a 100-gallon barrel, like those used to store beluga oil
70 of 116 		Wool wound into a ball using part of a beluga vertebra
71 of 116 		Letterhead of the British American Oil Company Limited, one of Joseph Lizotte's customers
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