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Building a Weir on the Labrecque’s Property

Three men attach fishing nets to the bottom part of a row of long poles on the shore of the river. Black and white photograph.

Location: Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse (Québec)
Date: c. 1960
Photo: Unidentified photographer

Rolls of netting can be seen to the right of the leader that the Labrecques were building. Each net, which they made themselves, measured 1.22 m by 61 m. It took a week to make each one.