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A mountain of apples and a very large ice house

Montage of two archive photographs. On the left, families standing behind a very large pile of apples. On the right, a section of the ice house on La Visitation Island.

Société d’histoire d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Cité historia Fonds.

On the left, families standing behind a mountain of apples; on the right a photo of the ice house belonging to ice merchant Eugène Gendron, and later to his son-in-law, Herménégilde Paquette. Today, the ice house would be in the alignment of the Papineau-Leblanc bridge.