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Comprising close to 24,000 artefacts and archival photographs, the permanent collection of the Musée des Deux-Rives bears testimony to the social and industrial life of the territory that today is known as the MRC Beauharnois-Salaberry. Here are several items from the collection. For more information or for details regarding the workshops on preventative conservation and the gathering of personal memories, we can be reached at (450) 370-4855.

The Musée des Deux-Rives… So that what remains may tell its story.


A FEW ITEMS FROM OUR COLLECTION
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Balance à trébuchet, collection Médecine d’hier (détail) Cécile Boutin sur la rue Victoria avec son frère à bicyclette, circa 1920 (détail) Cadran de navigation (détail)
Assay balance, Yesterday's Medicine Collection (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette
Cécile Boutin on her bicycle with her brother on Victoria Street, circa 1920 (detail)

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Rosa Boutin Collection, The Museum Corporation
Ship's clock (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette

Construction du complexe hydro-électrique de Beauharnois, 1930 (détail) Cordage à bateau, collection A. H. Besner (détail) Grève à la Montreal Cotton Company, 1946, (détail)
Construction of the hydroelectric complex at Beauharnois, 1930 (detail)

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Hydro-Quebec Collection, The Museum Corporation
Mooring cables, A. H. Besner Collection (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette

Strike at the Montreal Cotton Company,1946 (detail)

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Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley Collection, The Museum Corporation


Livre de compte, Montreal Cotton cie, collection Van De Wherfhorst (détail) Période de vaccin contre la Polio à la maison Robb, circa 1960 (détail) Pharmacie, collection Médecine d’hier (détail)
Record book belonging to the Montreal Cotton Company, Van de Werfhorst Collection (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette
Polio vaccination time at the Robb house, circa 1920 (detail)

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Peter Rozon Collection, The Museum Corporation
Pharmacy, Yesterday's Medicine Collection, (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette

Pièce tissée de Marie Dionne (détail)    
Article woven by Marie Dionne (detail)

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Photo: Luc Bouvrette
 
 
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