Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent

The Martins’ cottage

Family members sitting on rocks in front of a cottage.

Mrs. Chassé, Henri Thivierge, Isabelle Chassé and Paul-Émile Martin on the shore in Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie, 1916.

© Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Paul-Émile Martin coll., m09096.

This was the Martin family’s first cottage. The Martins were among Rivière-du-Loup’s more prosperous families. There are many photographs of their summer holidays, most notably in Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie and Notre-Dame-du-Portage. 

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