40 discoveries to read together · Edition 1

Life in Old Québec to Colour

Homes, Trades and Games of Long Ago

How people lived, worked, travelled and played in Québec long ago, with living traditions of today. Forty companion pages add context, sources and an activity.

Drawings 01–10

Looking around the museum

A Wendat longhouse

A birchbark canoe

The Inuit qajaq

A chest full to the top

The bread oven

Water from the well

Haying time

Making butter

Cod drying in the sun

Drawings 11–20

The loom

The spinning wheel turns

A quill and some ink

At the shoemaker’s

At the blacksmith’s

The barrel maker at work

The potter’s hands

The lumber camp

The log drive on the river

A schooner on the St. Lawrence

Drawings 21–30

The voyageurs and the furs

A sleigh ride in the snow

Waiting for the train

Delivery by horse and wagon

At the public market

At the general store

The wood-burning cookstove

Laundry day

The oil lamp

The kitchen icebox

Drawings 31–40

The ice cutter

The one-room schoolhouse

A slate to write on

The rocking horse

The spinning top

The cup-and-ball game

A rag doll

Listening to the radio

Hello, who’s there?

Sharing history