As I received two responses to my previous column on this street is not without history, I go back.
First, my friend and fellow historian, Frances Bordeleau, author of the test History of the parish of St. Zéphirin La Tuque 1912-1987 (1), reminded me the date assigned by Lucien Filion to the photo I used, taken from her book and showing the street Tessier, Dominion Day in 1915, could be good. She is right: the photo can not be this year, since Brown Corporation name will appear in 1917. Les Brown of New Hampshire will use this name to replace that of Quebec and St. Maurice Industrial Company for its operations in Quebec and one of its plants in Berlin, the United States, by Brown Company.
Then a friend sent me several collector scans related to La Tuque and facilities at Brown, Berlin, New Hampshire at that time.
Among them, seven maps covering all of La Tuque buffer "JHA Bernard, Artist Photographer, Shawinigan Falls, "a lot he bought on auction site Ebay. Here are six and I used the other (showing the construction of the convent and the first station, rue Tessier) in my previous column.
The first is interesting because it clearly is the birthplace of Félix Leclerc, rue Tessier. It says "Hotel Leclerc (2). At left, we guess the sign of the restaurant TRANSCONTINANTAL.
Commercial Street in a southerly direction, and in foreground Saint-Joseph. At left, part of the Quebec Bank, opened April 16, 1910, and behind what appears to be the remains of a building, probably went to the fire. On the right, past the second telephone pole, the sign of a laundry, "LAUNDRY. The door on the right corner of the trade is one of the architectural features of the first trade latuquois. For a long time, shoemaking Duharme angle Commercial and Scott will have this type of door.
Royal Bank will succeed to the Bank of Quebec January 2, 1917. The photo appears before the construction of the hotel Windsor.
Rue Saint-Antoine in a northerly direction. Left, Block magazine current Arthur Harvey.
Part of the factory of the Brown Corporation at the time of construction of the Main Office.
Falls, downstream from the suspension bridge. It distinguishes a system of wooden rail, birch stringers, which allowed likely to move heavy equipment, boats, for example. We also see a very small part of a brick building, a large water pipe topped by a sort of sidewalk made of planks down to the small power plant, with a tower. This large pipe supplied the small power plant. Lowest Gull Island, known in the 1950s, under the name of Gilbert Island, for the family of Henry Gilbert, a distributor of wholesale products, there were several cottages built on stilts.
The first church and parsonage, nearly amputated his bell. My correspondent also reported to me highly irregular format of these cards Bernard, who are actual photos: badly cut, poorly framed, rather than craft ...
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This postcard was mailed from La Tuque, July 22, 1915. It bears the stamp 'L. COAST, THE BEANIE ONLY.. " On the back, Geo. B. wrote to his mother, Mrs. Clara Bullak, White Horse Beach, Massachusetts, he arrives by train to Quebec and is proceeding to Cedars, where some Edna is already and where he himself expected to work during the next four years. This should be the construction site of the dam La Loutre.
It shows part of the roof of the National Bank, located at the corner of Rue Saint-Antoine, Saint-Joseph corner in 1913, the two tracks of railroads, the town hall, the school St. Zéphirin and the hospital, the Commercial Street with Windsor hotels and Marchand, and we guess the houses of Rue Saint-Maurice Tessier.
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Les Brown and Berlin, New Hampshire
My collector has also attached some pictures related to the Brown Company, useful for identify the facilities thereof.
Both postcards, scenes of Berlin, New Hampshire, shipped to Saint-Tite, the October 12 and November 6, 1907, to "Miss Cecilia Lacoursière Residential Ursulines, Trois-Rivieres. They are of her sister Ursula. The family probably had relatives in Berlin.
The sight recalls the small town of La Tuque geography.
My correspondent found this postcard, quite original in his family archives, sent from Berlin by S. Nicol, a maternal uncle of his father, Louis Toussaint, Saint-Romuald-d'Etchemin. 
It includes a small booklet, contained in a recess and retained by a small catch Swivel brass. It unfolds to show eleven "views" of Berlin, four spent installing Brown Berlin: The Cascade Mill, the Burgess Sulphite and Berlin Lumber Co. 
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(1) Bibliographic Description of the historical work of Françoise Bordeleau, preserved at the Library national and national archives in Montreal. 
(2) The two following photos are taken from a book in which Gregoire Leclerc book memories from 1911 to 1934. 
restricted to family members of Leclerc, its circulation was limited to 34 copies. 
this picture of Leo Leclerc, behind the bar of his hotel, Felix wrote: "My father at the age of 40 in La Tuque, FL"
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A curious picture.
also Purchased on Ebay, it comes from an album. Residues are black paper stuck to the back. It reads the caption. "Brown's Camp. La Tuque, on 5 July [t] 1916. "That may well be three layers in their Sunday best? Where are they, in La Tuque? Boarding house in the Rue Saint-Maurice, in the section that will Beckler Street?
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