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The Mayrand Couple Settle in St-Pierre-les-BecquetsA photograph of the couple and a filmed interview on the arrival of Jean-Noël Mayrand and Julienne Neault in St-Pierre-les-Becquets, where they open a grocery store.
Rosaire Tousignant's Grocery StoreCécile Poisson and her husband Rosaire Tousignant buy the business that would become “l’épicerie Rosaire Tousignant”; a photo of the store and a video clip accompany the note.
Gaston Mailhot and his beginnings at the general storeGaston Mailhot tells how the owner of the general store hired him as a very young man, and how his earnestness there soon got him noticed.
The Caisse Populaire of Saint-Pierre-les-BecquetsFounded on 13 September 1911, the Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets caisse closed for want of a manager, was revived in 1934, and in 1979 moved into a building raised on the site of the former parish hall.
Rosaire Tousignant’s Grocery StoreCécile Poisson-Tousignant recalls the general store at the corner of rue Lapérade and rue Marie-Victorin, bought from Hervé Brisson and run with her husband Rosaire until they sold it in 1987.