Life Along the St. Lawrence

Datecirca 1941

Can DescriptionsLife Along the St. Lawrence

Viewing NotesA man smoking a pipe. A woman gathering flowers, overlooking the ocean. People sitting on the beach. A boy leads a calf past a building with a sign for: “The Art Gallery” and “Movies”. A horse drawn wagon. Percé Rock (Percé, Quebec). View of a tidal wetland. Seagulls and a rowboat floating on the water. An old man carrying a cat. View of a river. Rowboats. A horse drawn wagon the beach. Panning shot of moored boats. Cliffs. A man leads an ox drawn wagon up the road. He fills the wagon with seaweed at the beach. People haying in a field by the ocean. A woman milking a cow. Close ups of various children. Children in a dog cart. A store selling toy boats. A man takes bread from an outdoor oven and gives it to a little girl. A man and a boy seated on a porch, playing fiddles. The boy appears to be clogging along with the music. People haying, with Percé Rock in the background. Haying, with the village in the background. Other haying scenes. Ox drawn wagons. Cows in a field. Cutting plants (hay? Alfalfa?) Turning over soil in a garden. A man leading an ox drawn sledge. Haying. A man launching a rowboat. Percé seen from high up on a hill. Boats moored near Percé Rock. A lighthouse and boats. Men fishing. A rowboat coming up on shore. Unloading fish. Fishermen cleaning fish on the shore. Draft horses pulling rowboats up on shore. Laying fish out on drying racks. Fisherman working on boats. Raising sails. Laying out fishing hooks. Cutting up fish for bait. Baiting hooks. Boats on the shore. A man wearing a raincoat ringing a bell. A storm on the coast of Percé. A draft horse pulls a winch to pull a boat up on shore. Men in raincoats use logs to move a boat, the ‘Stella’. Launching a boat. Views of the shore. Intertitle over watercolor painting: “Ever Changing Moods of the Sea.” Waves on the shore. A cow walking on the beach. A child walking on the beach. View of Percé Rock. People gathered on the shore during a storm. Storm waves. Percé Rock on a clear day. Panning shot of the shore and hills. A field of flowers. View of fields and wetlands. Panning shot of fields and houses along the shore. A man in a rowboat. Boats on the shore. Seagulls. Views of the shore and village. People around a wooden cross on the shore. People on the sandbar between Percé Rock and the mainland. A man in a small boat with articulated oars. The man building a campfire on the beach. Children watch as the man cleans fish. Cooking on the campfire. Eating in a tent. Washing dishes in the ocean. The man writing a sign: “Votre Horoscope [Charles Charcinard?]”. People gather around as the man reads [tarot?] cards and reads palms. The man sitting on the steps of a house, brushing his hair and putting on a hairnet. The man packs up his tent. People wave as the man sails away. People on a sailboat wave at the camera. Views of Percé Rock. Gannets on the cliffs. Seagull chicks. Gannets. Chicks. Seabirds. Close ups of gannets. Views of the cliffs from a boat. A man grabs a gannet so it can be filmed up close. Gannets in flight. Views of the cliffs from a boat. The steamboat ‘Louis Jolliet’, with Quebec City in the background. The Chateau Frontenac. Panning shot of the St. Lawrence River. People in a horse drawn carriage. An outdoor vegetable market. The Chateau Frontenac. Carriages driving through a gate in the Ramparts of Quebec City. Montmorency Falls. Driving over a bridge. Views of fields along a river. Horses and cows. [Île d'Orléans?] Oxen plowing a field. People harvesting potatoes. Ox drawn wagon. Shots of buildings. Sunset over the river. Autumn foliage along the river. A float plane. Aerial shots of the river and foliage. Men with hunting rifles disembark the float plane and walk to a forest camp. Examining rifles. Various shots of moose. Unloading butchered moose from a rowboat. Measuring the moose antlers. Butchering the moose. The float plane taking off. [End of Reel]