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Haying Season at Blais Farm, Saint-Marc-de-Figuery

Photograph of a woman, man and child picking up hay on a cart pulled by two horses.

Between 1930 and 1950.
BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Fonds Canadien National (P213,P82).

A woman, a man and a child gathering hay with a cart driven by two horses.

François (Frank) Blais (1875-1949) was a farmer, a wood merchant, a businessman and a politician of the federal government in Quebec. He arrived in Abitibi at the beginning of colonization and had an “exemplary” farm in St-Marc. We can see it in En pays neufs (1937), a documentary about Abitibi, which is also the first sound motion picture in Quebec’s history.