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The New Midgets Palace (Pt.1/3) | Count and Countess Nicol of Montreal | Sepia Saturday

I have a very faint memory that dates back to over 50 years ago when I was a little girl growing up in Ville Lasalle, and my parents brought me downtown to visit what we called “The Dollhouse”. I remember that I was enchanted with the visit but that my mother felt vaguely uncomfortable and warned me before going in that I should “be polite”. I’ve since found out that what I was visiting was “The New Midgets Palace” which was an independant business founded by Montrealers Count and Countess Nicol. It was later bought by another person of short stature – Mme Huguette Riou-Bastien – and I’m actually not yet sure who I saw when I visited! Read more »

January 30, 2010 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | 16900022 | dwarf, Little People, midget, sideshow | 3 Comments