Sisters Genevieve and Annie Cote opened Les Soeurs d’a Cote on Boulevard Jacques-Cartier in Mont-Joli with a simple idea: a secondhand shop does not have to look or feel like a bin-diving operation. Genevieve, who works the store full time and brings a background in interior design, arranges the racks and shelves the way a boutique selling new merchandise would, with clothing washed, sorted, and hung by size rather than piled for customers to dig through. The result is a friperie that reads as curated rather than cluttered, in a region of the Bas-Saint-Laurent where secondhand shopping has become a genuine alternative to fast fashion.
The inventory spans adult and children’s clothing, discounted outdoor and seasonal wear, home decor pieces, small collectibles, puzzles, vinyl records, and assorted textiles, giving shoppers reasons to stop in whether they are outfitting a family, hunting for a specific record, or simply looking for an affordable throw blanket or picture frame. Because everything is inspected, cleaned, and organized before it reaches the floor, browsing here tends to move faster than at a typical donation-bin thrift store, since customers can search by size and category rather than wading through mixed racks.
One detail sets this Mont-Joli shop apart from most small-town friperies: alongside walk-in retail, Les Soeurs d’a Cote offers house-clearing services connected to estate settlements following a death in the family. When a household needs to be emptied and sorted after losing a loved one, the sisters will come on site to sort belongings and arrange pickup, turning what can be an overwhelming task for grieving families into a more manageable process, while usable clothing and household goods find a second life on the shop’s shelves instead of going straight to a landfill or storage unit. Donations of clothing and household items are also accepted directly at the store during regular business hours, giving Mont-Joli residents a straightforward local outlet for items they no longer need.
Located at 1521 Boulevard Jacques-Cartier in Mont-Joli, a central Bas-Saint-Laurent town roughly midway between Rimouski and the Gaspe Peninsula, the shop draws both local shoppers and regional visitors passing through on Route 132. Reaching the store by phone at 418 318-3027 is the most reliable way to confirm current hours or ask about scheduling a house-clearing visit, since small independent shops in the area can adjust hours seasonally.
For anyone who assumes secondhand shopping means messy racks and musty smells, Les Soeurs d’a Cote offers a different experience: a boutique-style friperie in Mont-Joli, run by two sisters, where every hung garment has already been sorted, cleaned, and priced with care, and where vinyl records and vintage home decor sit alongside affordable children’s clothing under one carefully arranged roof. The shop stands as a practical answer for anyone in the Mitis region looking to sell, donate, buy, or simply browse quality secondhand goods without sacrificing the tidy, welcoming feel of a proper retail store. Les Soeurs d’a Cote proves that a small-town thrift shop can be both budget-friendly and genuinely well-curated.
