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All articles

• The Carignan-Salières regiment and the companies of Tracy — September 22, 2026
• The municipal water system, from then to now — September 22, 2026
• Chapter 4: Louise Mousseau (Monceau), the guardian (1635-1707) — February 5, 2024
• Chapter 3: Romain Becquet, seigneur in spite of himself (1640-1682) — February 5, 2024
• Chapter 2: Our region — the arrival of the first Europeans (1534–c.1600) — February 3, 2024
• Chapter 1: Our region, from prehistory to the arrival of the Europeans. — January 29, 2024
• From Yesterday to Today — January 28, 2024
• 1672 or 1679? — March 25, 2019
• Ketchup — September 25, 2018
• A Trois-Rivières Bridge Runs Aground at St-Pierre-les-Becquets — September 25, 2018
• Family names: Lauzon, Habermaker, Manset — April 26, 2018
• Family Names: Fournier and Cloutier — March 4, 2018
• Diversion of the main road at St-Pierre — February 6, 2018
• Shale Gas at Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets — January 5, 2018
• Carried off by Abenakis! — May 27, 2017
• A Tornado at Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard. — May 27, 2017
• The Mill That Became a Waterworks — April 9, 2017
• The Oldest House in the Seigneury — March 23, 2017
• Sterilizing the cans and making the ketchup — February 2, 2016
• The militiamen of 1812 at St-Pierre-les-Becquets — December 21, 2015
• Repairs to the buildings; heating the autoclaves — October 27, 2015
• Peeling with a Spoon — September 27, 2015
• Cooling the Cans, Then Labelling Them — September 10, 2015
• Canning and Seaming — September 9, 2015
• First the Tomatoes Had to Be Scalded — September 8, 2015
• Taking in the tomatoes at the cannery — September 6, 2015
• The Work of the Tomato Peelers — August 23, 2015
• Call for Information — July 19, 2015
• The Mayrand Couple Settle in St-Pierre-les-Becquets — July 16, 2015
• Rosaire Tousignant's Grocery Store — July 16, 2015
• Secretary of the Tomato Cannery — July 16, 2015
• Gaston Mailhot and his beginnings at the general store — July 14, 2015
• Baskets for the Tomatoes — July 14, 2015
• Memories of a Young Immigrant in 1951 — July 10, 2015
• The Caisse Populaire of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets — July 1, 2015
• Rosaire Tousignant’s Grocery Store — June 30, 2015
• The Tomaterie (Tomato Cannery) — June 1, 2015
• Jean-Baptiste Lelaidier — May 31, 2015
• The Tomato: Its History — May 31, 2015
• The Origin of the Names of Our Seigneury — May 26, 2015
• A Tomato Worker, Cécile Spénard-Poisson — May 26, 2015
• What they drank, under the French regime. — May 25, 2015
• Cercle des fermières (rural women’s association) — May 25, 2015
• Désiré-Olivier Bourbeau, a man of Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets — May 25, 2015
• Domaine de Lapérade — May 25, 2015
• Historical Sketch of the Lévrard-Becquet Seigneury — May 25, 2015
• Shale Gas — May 25, 2015
• Gérard Demers — May 25, 2015
• Timber — May 25, 2015
• Father Joseph Bailey — May 25, 2015
• The Mill on Lot 178 — May 25, 2015
• The Mill on Lot 190 — May 25, 2015
• The mill on lot 343 — May 25, 2015
• Father Louis — May 25, 2015
• The Manoir Site — May 25, 2015
• Water Mains — May 25, 2015
• The Cemeteries — May 25, 2015
• The Gouin Parish Priests — May 25, 2015
• The Written Word Remains — May 25, 2015
• The Schoolmistresses — May 25, 2015
• The physicians — May 25, 2015
• The Post Offices — May 25, 2015
• Iron mines — May 25, 2015
• Not an Easy Thing, Being a Seigneur… — May 25, 2015
• Romain Becquet — May 25, 2015
• Thomas-Aimé Chandonnet — May 25, 2015
• Three Houses, One Family: the Méthots — May 25, 2015
• Rue Narcisse-Beaudet — May 22, 2015
• René-Pinot Street (Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets) — May 22, 2015
• The Railways in the Seigneury of Lévrard-Becquet — May 22, 2015
• Méthot and Siméon-Charland Streets — May 22, 2015