"The Opera Bottling Plant was a small local distributor of soft drinks. This painting shows a local grocery store in St. Agathe in the late 1940s, with the soft drink signage."
1) d (now Brownsburg-Chatham)
2) c (François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, sometimes called the "King of the North")
3) a
4) b
5) a
6) a
7) b
8) d
9) b
10) a
The old Fort Rose School in New Glasgow, Quebec, was "a one room building with grades 1 to 7 all being taught at the same time. The teacher was Miss Smith, who taught many children in the area, from mere toddlers to teenagers. She lived directly across the road from the school, making life easier for her. (The small store is my idea, as the original house had the extra room added sometime in the 1960s.)"
"Here is the General Store in Val-David, exact date unknown, but depicted as of the end of the 1940s... The Shawbridge bakery truck was everywhere, supplying the countryside with fresh baked European-style bakery products. The truck would go, door to door, community to community..."
