Retired asbestos miner Benoit Côté

Benoit Côté poses with abandoned machinery on the site of a closed asbestos mine in Thetford Mine September 3, 2009. Côté worked 40 years as an asbestos miner. Photo Francis Vachon/ THE GAZETTE

The portraits where made for a Gazette article on « La Grande Noirceur », a dark era in the province of Quebec dominated by the clergy and Maurice Duplessie, a Premier with an iron fist.

My day spent in Therford Mine hunting for stock photos paid of to find a great location.