Proudly Canadian, Proudly Local: Tariffs shifting taste in beer at Depanneur Thompson – and the community’s on board

Proudly Canadian, Proudly Local: Tariffs shifting taste in beer at Depanneur Thompson – and the community’s on board

The latest owners of a family-run institution in Portage-du-Fort are full steam ahead as they experiment with a new roster of locally made suds to satisfy their regular customers. Four years into running Depanneur Thompson, Martin Herault says the corner store has filled all sorts of roles as it passed through the decades, serving the community as everything from a paint store to a post office and eventually the corner store that bears his in-la…