A Poultry Farm

Sisters Claire Lauzier, s.g.m. and Fernande Dumont, s.g.m., busy taking care of the turkeys, 1946. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N5E

Sisters Claire Lauzier, s.g.m. and Fernande Dumont, s.g.m., busy caring for the little chickens, 1946. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N5F

“We had the great pleasure of going to the river all prepared to collect oyster shells which will serve as food for our hens… (…). In the afternoon we continue our work with the flax; we tie it up and sift it.”

Chronicles of the Métairie Saint-Joseph, 8 September 1937. Transcription.
Archives of The Grey Nuns of Montréal, L054

Sisters Claire Lauzier, s.g.m. and Fernande Dumont, s.g.m., busy caring for the turkeys, 1946. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N5G

Sister Fernande Dumont, s.g.m. distributes food to the pullets placed in colonies during the summer season, 1947. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-I-Album 1-page 5

Sister Claire Lauzier, s.g.m., caring for the turkeys, 1951. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-I-Album 1-page 6

Sisters Claire Lauzier, s.g.m. and Fernande Dumont, s.g.m., shortly after the construction of their henhouse, 1946. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N5B

Sisters Laurette Rivard, s.g.m. and Fernande Dumont, s.g.m. at the henhouse, 1954. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N6

Little day-old chicks under the care of Sister Dumont, s.g.m., 1954. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-I-Album 1-page 9

In the henhouse: M. Beaudet, G. Grenier, D. Beaulieu, 1954. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N4D

Mister Maurice Beaudet helps in the henhouse, undated. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-N9

Sister and employees in front of the turkeys’ henhouse, 1964. Photography: author unknown. Grey Nuns of Montréal’s Archives, Métairie Saint-Joseph (Nicolet)’s Fonds, L054-Album 1-page 7

The Beginnings

The Maple Grove and Sugar Shack

A Prosperous and Model Farm

In the Fields

A Poultry Farm

A Dairy Farm

Development

In the Fields

A Dairy Farm