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The Canada Match Company

Red advertising poster with beige background stating Star matches manufactured by Canada match company Ste Anne de la Pérade PQ. The poster shows a picture of the factory in front of which some horse-drawn carriages are passing.

Poster of the Canada Match Company, archival document.

Source: Maurice Laganière

In 1922, Jacques-Maurice Laganière opens a general store. The ground floor serves as a match factory and the upper floors house the Laganière family. A few years later, the enterprise became the Canada Match Company and moved to a much larger factory.