Côte du Pin/Pain [English]

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There’s nothing better than a homophone to confuse posterity! Depending on whom you speak with, this place is known as either the Côte de Pin or Côte de Pain (Pine/Bread Hill in English). Some say there were pine trees in the woods leading to the hill, others that it was shaped like a loaf of bread… They might be hypotheses, but they don’t take away the memories of the children who grew up in the hamlet of Buguead. This place became a prime playground for sliding in the winter. In summer and fall, people would pick berries there, especially pommina (pimbina berries, or highbush cranberry, viburnum trilobum).

Anyone who has ever picked pimbina berries remembers the smell of them cooking!

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Interview with Rina Hort and hier daughters Lisette and Estérina Castilloux, September 22, 2025.

Sliding slope.

Picking grawazelles and pommina.

Nut picking.

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1. Wikipédia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum_trilobum.