History

The stories behind our History

• Communications

  • The railways
  • Lanes and roads
  • The post offices
  • The river

• Fragments of history, by Yolande Allaire-Roux

  • Thomas-Aimé Chandonnet
  • The cemeteries
  • The Gouin parish priests
  • The written word endures
  • Romain Becquet
  • Three houses, one family

• The seigneury

  • Domaine Lapérade
  • Not an easy thing, being a seigneur
  • The manor site
  • The manor (coming soon)

• Notable figures

  • D.O. Bourbeau
  • Gérard Demers

• The clergy

  • Father Louis, Recollect
  • The Gouin parish priests (also found in Fragments of history)
  • Father Joseph Bailey

• The teachers

  • The schoolmistresses
  • The schoolmasters
• The doctors

• Place names

  • The origin of the names

  • Streets

    • Narcisse-Beaudet Street
    • Méthot Street and Siméon-Charland Street

• The mills

  • lot 178
  • lot 190
  • lot 343
  • lot 533
  • the seigneurial mills

• Ways of life

  • What they drank
• The waterworks (3 parts)

• Natural resources and industries

  • Shale gas
  • Iron mines
  • Bricailles
  • Timber

  • The tomato industry:

    • The tomato: its history
    • Jean-Baptiste Lelaidier
    • La Tomaterie (the tomato cannery)
    • A tomato-cannery worker, Cécile Spénard-Poisson

• Associations

  • Cercle des Fermières (rural women’s association)

N.B. Some articles are still in preparation