A group on a landing (possibly in Tadoussac), in the early 20th century.
© Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Joseph-Adélard Boucher coll., jab0004.
When steamboat passengers stepped onto the wharfs of the seaside resorts of eastern Quebec, they did not expect to be welcomed like royalty. But they were, by a lively crowd of curious spectators, perhaps a fiddler and certainly drivers sitting patiently on their horse-drawn carriages. The decor was nonetheless quite simple: a broad wharf, sometimes a small building for shelter from wind and rain and, all around, nature in all its splendor.