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The blueberry: blue gold

Colour photo of three women in front of several blueberry containers.

Sisters Murielle Lévesque (Saint-Luc) and Gisèle Boulet (Sister Claude) happily posing with their blueberry harvest.

1987

SNDBC Archives

Colour photo of a woman picking blueberries in a field.

Blueberry gathering in 1987. Archives SNBDC

Many types of berries were harvested on the farm, and especially the blueberry, a much-appreciated regional emblem. Pies, desserts, jams, jellies, and even remedies were concocted by the Congregation’s cooks.

Black and white photo of a nun in a kitchen.

Sister Saint-Jacques (Simone Rochette), farm cook from 1956 to 1959. SNDBC Archives