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Pay slip

A pay slip belonging to Captain J.A.Z. Desgagnés and his six crew members. The document is a booklet that opens on a double page of squared paper. Each crew member’s information is hand-written in blue. There is a note written over the unemployment insurance stamps at the bottom of the left page.

A pay slip belonging to the crew members of the Mont Ste-Marie schooner, June 1958.

Source: collection of the Musée maritime de Charlevoix, J.A.Z. Desgagnés collection

This pay slip tells us about the average wage of sailors in the late 1950s. Monthly wages aboard the Mont Ste-Marie varied between $222 and $262. At the time, Captain J.A.Z. Desgagnés was sailing with his son Yvan.