Butchers, charcuterie and game processing in La Petite-Nation

Fall in La Petite-Nation smells like tourtière and hunting camp. Freezers fill up, hunters hunt for a butcher with an open slot, and cottagers stock up before closing for the winter.

Here are the meat counters in our directory, from village butcher shops to the back-road processors where you pull in with a deer in the truck bed.

Village butchers

Boucherie Les Produits David, Chénéville

We'll start with the one we know best, because we're in there most weeks. On rue Principale in Chénéville: meat cut to order, tourtières, pâtés, cipaille and sugar pie. Cottagers stop on their way up to the lake, and they're onto something.

We have our weaknesses. The tourtière, first of all, which turns a weeknight into an easy supper. The pistachio liver pâté for apéro. The crustless quiches, which handle lunch in two minutes. And we never leave without the caramel by the till. Somebody else makes it, but it always ends up in our bag.

Boucherie de la Ferme, Saint-André-Avellin

A family butcher on the farm: meat raised without hormones or antibiotics, homemade sausages and smoked products. The kind of place neighbours tell each other about.

Ferme Moreau, Ripon

An artisanal butcher in the village that handles cutting, processing, charcuterie and house specialties. If you do the Ripon market on Saturday, it's right there.

Marché Faubert, Montpellier

The butcher counter at Marché Faubert shares a roof with the grocery, the bakery and the SAQ outlet. Handy when you want one stop. We're there a lot, no secret.

Meat you won't find at the grocery store

Boucherie Montebello VTM. Free-range bison and Mangalica pork, the woolly pig. A guaranteed dinner-table conversation.

Ranch d'Amérique, Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk. A big-game ranch raising bison, elk, red deer and wild boar, with retail meat sales. They also offer butchering for hunters.

Dépanneur Bowman. Yes, a corner store. But between the gas pumps and the craft beer there are local products, including meats like wild boar and bison. Open seven days.

Carbo Barbecue, Duhamel. Brisket, pulled pork and ribs smoked over maple wood in one of the oldest houses in the village, plus vacuum-packed meals to take back to the cottage. Charcuterie in the broad sense. We're not going to argue.

The hunters' butchers

Hunting season is on, so let's talk game. In the southern part of the region, two Lochaber names come up again and again.

Débitage des Cantons. A back-road butcher that raises its own rabbits and sells pork, beef, horse and poultry, plus homemade tourtière, terrines and jerky. For hunters, they cut and process deer or moose, with sausages, pepperettes and pepperoni if you want them. They're a certified Chasseurs généreux butcher, so you can donate part of your animal to food banks.

Débitage B&B (Brazeau et Bouwman). A processing shop on 7e Rang, also Chasseurs généreux certified. Call before you show up with the animal, especially at the peak of the season.

Register your animal before you go to the butcher. It's the law. Do it online or at a station like Sport NP in Saint-André-Avellin or Station Sport Nature in Val-des-Bois.

For the rest of the season, our 2026 hunting guide covers it.

Straight from the farm

Plenty of farmers sell their own meat. Often by order, often picked up at the farm. Call first.

• Ferme Fée et Fougère, Ripon: certified organic meat, on the 321.
• Ferme À Sabourin, Ripon: on the same land since 1927. Chickens, lamb and turkeys in the fall, by order. Thanksgiving turkey, anyone?
• Ferme Syllie, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix: Holstein beef and veal, pork, rabbit, turkey and chicken with no growth hormones or antibiotics.
• Bayview Farm, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest: family-raised beef, no hormones or antibiotics.
• Ferme Brylee, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest: grass-fed beef by the cut or in bulk, on a fifth-generation family farm.
• Bergerie Bouwman Érablière, Lochaber-Partie-Ouest: meat from the sheep farm, maple syrup and homemade goods.

For the snack board

In Saint-André-Avellin, Véro and Fred at Le Brasse Camarade stock saucisson and pâtés, many from the Outaouais, next to a big craft beer selection. A charcuterie board comes together fast.

Every butcher in the directory on one map:

Disclosure: the publisher of La Petite Nation is a regular customer of Boucherie Les Produits David and Marché Faubert. Nobody paid to be in this article.

ChénévilleSaint-André-AvellinRiponMontebelloLochaberLochaber-Partie-OuestMontpellierSaint-Émile-de-SuffolkNotre-Dame-de-la-PaixBowmanDuhamel

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