On your left is a pale clapboard, three-story house with a boxy roofline, stacked rectangular windows, and a historic plaque by the entrance.
Modest, isn’t it? And yet this is where that movement took root. Back then, this was Joseph Boivin’s three-family home, now preserved as the museum’s original setting. Today, the museum focuses less on the paperwork and more on the people and the place that started it all. If you glance at the old house photo in the app, you can see how little of its plainspoken character it has lost. In nineteen ninety-six, the building entered the National Register of Historic Places. Inside, the first two floors trace credit union history from nineteen oh eight through the nineteen thirty-four Federal Credit Union Act; the third floor now serves as a meeting room for eighty-five. If you want to step inside, it’s usually open Monday through Thursday from nine to three.
A quiet house, then... but a loud idea.
When you’re ready, continue toward Ste. Marie Church.
