[2] The museum is housed at the original location for St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association, renamed in 1925 to La Caisse Populaire Ste.-Marie, or "Bank of the People", St.

[3] In 1996, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Building at 418–420 Notre Dame Ave. What is now the museum was formerly a three-story, three-family dwelling belonging to Joseph Boivin, the manager of the St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association.

[4][5] Boivin started the credit union with the help of Monsignor Pierre Hevey and Alphonse Desjardins.

To create the museum, the first two floors were converted into exhibit space about credit union history in the United States.

The first floor pays tribute to the founding era of the credit union from 1908 to 1933.