Description of Historic Place

The Martel Dairy Farm consists of a series of buildings including a one-and-a-half-storey house, a barn, and a milkhouse. It is located at 282 Canada Street in Saint-Quentin.

Heritage Value

The heritage value of the Martel Dairy Farm as a local historic place resides in its association with Saint-Quentin’s dairy industry. The history of Olivier Martel’s farm dates back to the origins of Saint-Quentin, around 1910, when family farms grew crops and raised livestock to meet the family’s needs. In the early 1940s, Olivier’s son, Noel Martel, turned the agricultural operation into a dairy farm that produced and delivered milk until the mid-1980s.

Source: Société du Patrimoine de Saint-Quentin, Saint-Quentin, N.B.

Character-Defining Elements

The character-defining elements of the Martel Dairy Farm include:
- location of the house in the middle of the yard with the milkhouse to the right and the barn in back, enclosing the yard;
- one-and-a-half-storey house with its central flat-roofed dormer and veranda on the main façade;
- sheet-metal barn with mansard roof;
- sheet-metal milkhouse with gable roof and delivery doors that open onto the street.