Le Messager Documents, Items, and Photographs

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Voici le groupe du personnel du Messager [Article]

Le Messager

Undated article clipping from Le Messager identifying some of the staff of 1928: Elmyra Tremblay, Albert Bédard Philibert Buteau, Edmond Martin, Yvonne Blais, Dominique Dionne, F. X. Guay, Louis-Philippe Gagné. Valdor-L. Couture, Jean-Baptiste Couture, Faust Couture, Adélard Roy, Omer Gauvin, Liane Michaud (Mme. Gérard Marcotte), Fernand Martin, Irma Poirier (Mme. J.-Raoul Plante), Léonard Michaud, J.-E.-N. Bohémier, Mme. Henri F. Roy (Loretta Vachon), Eugène Gélinas, Delia DeBlois (Mme Flavius Dionne), and Joseph Girard.
Staff of Le Messager, 1928

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Staff of Le Messager, 1928

Left to right, bottom row: Eliagre Tremblay, Albert Bedard, Philibert Buteau, Edouard Martin, Yvonne Blais. Second row: Dominique Dionne, FX Guay, Louis P. Gagné, Valdor Couture, J.B. Couture, Faust Couture, Adelard Roy, Omer Gauvin. Top row: Liane Michaud Marcotte, Fernand Martin, Irma Poirier Plante, Leonard Michaud, Dr J L N Bonhumer, Loretta Vahon Roy, Eugene Gelinas, Delcia Deblois Dionne, Joseph Girard.

Jean-Baptiste Couture, the paper's owner, is in the center of the photo, together with his sons Faust and Valdor, who had taken over the day-to-day running of the business.

Note that some members of the staff remain from the 1908 photo (2013.0.25), including Omer Gauvin, who is a boy in 1908 (probably an apprentice typesetter), and a grown man in this image.
Nouvelles Locales [Article]

Le Messager

Photocopy of an article from Le Messager dated to August 16, 1915.
Le Messager [Advertisement]

Le Messager

Photocopy of an advertisement for a subscription to Le Messager from their Lincoln Street location in Lewiston, Maine, dated September 8, 1899.
Nouvelles Locales [Article]

Le Messager

Photocopy of an article from Le Messager dated September 8, 1899.
Eliphas Levi Photograph

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Photograph of Eliphas Levi c. 1888.
Le 24 Juin à Québec [Article]

Le Messager

Transcript and photocopy of columns from Le Messager V1 N2, page 2, March 25, 1880.
Staff of Le Messager c.1880

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Staff of Le Messager outside their first Lincoln St Office, in Lewiston, Maine, c. 1880.

Note 1 included with photo:

The Office staff of Le Messager

Note 1 included with photo:
The Office staff of Le Messager
1st row (l-R)
M. J. B. Couture, directeur, M. P. S. Guilbault, contremaitre
M. Henri Carpentier, M. Omer Gauvin, M. Arthur Brunelle,
2nd Row:
M. F. X. Gray, M. Albert Bedard, M. Odule Laplante, M. Joseph Belanger, M. N. L. Gendreau, M. Runeau,
3rd row
Miss Corine Gauthier (Mrs. Eugene Dumais), [^Loretta Vachon] Miss Blanche Verville
(Mrs. ALfred Sutton, and Miss Camile Lessard (Mrs. Bissonnette)
Miss Lessard is the author of the famous book "Canuk"

Note 2 included with photo:
Le personel du Messager avant de guitter les atelieres de la rue Lincoln pour ceux de la rue Lisbon. Corrine Gauthier, Loretta Vachon, Blanche Verville, Camille Lessard (LIANE) nom de plume
Xavier Guay, ---Bedard, Oudule Laplante, ---
Belanger, --- ---.
J. B. Couture, -- Guilbalt, ---Carpentier, omer Gauvin, ---Brunelle, L. N. Gendreau