Quebec Smoked Meat served the Pointe-Saint-Charles community as the neighbourhood, once known for its factories, changed over 70 years. Noyer recalled how workers from the massive Northern Electric Company, or Canadian Pacific, used to come and buy smoked meat during their lunch hours. Quebec Smoked Meat, a family business in Pointe-Saint-Charles that has sold wholesale and takeout "old-fashioned" smoked meat for decades. Richard Nower, whose father started the business in 1950, for Montrealers to get authentic, in-house smoked meat.