THE BEANIE - 1920
Some echoes of the plant
of the Brown Corporation and the City
I return numbers from 1920 of Brown Bulletin is improving. There are more items that interest me as Latuquois. I reproduce two here, even if they are in English.
In January at the front, a worker pays tribute to the founder of the Berlin Mills Co. in 1852, William Wentworth Brown (photo). He is the instigator of the dinner this Thanksgiving for employees at this opportunity, each receive a turkey.
View of the Rue Saint-Joseph in a westerly direction, about 1920. At left, we recognize the facade of the National Bank at the bottom, at the corner of the Rue Tessier, one-story house to be moved, I would think, in the preparation of the street leading to the Club. Right, the first church. Postcard photographer L. Side.
For what concerns the political life of the city, the biggest news is the announcement that municipal services will be under the responsibility of a manager whose selection must be approved by the City Council and Brown. The salary of the new employee will be insured by the company.
Academically, a typed document of the former clerk of the municipality, Aldor Dupont [1] , said that three elementary schools, St. Francis, Saint-Michel Desbiens, will be built from a single plan.
A new importance, that of a large construction project: the Brown Community Club, which has been one of my previous columns.
In the field of sports, a true hockey fever broke out.
It costs $ 5 for access to the rink during the winter season.
TBB January 1920.
There is much talk of the sport during the year. In January, the correspondent of latuquois Bulletin provides people of Berlin to form a team and a challenge. He added that they will surely interested prowess of a women's team which was set up here. Women's hockey was in effect for several years at La Tuque. A team photo from the 1920 or 1930 has already made the cover of a magazine.
TBB February 1920.
At the plant, employees are NIBROC the club, the name, pronounced backwards, the inventor (WE Corbin) a kind of kraft paper, patented by the Brown Company. One derivatives become famous: the paper towel, the Nibroc Paper Towel. The manager and secretary-treasurer of the team is Thomas Cleland, accountant, assistant manager, Leo Cote, and Captain Oscar Dicaire [2] .
TBB March 1920.
February
At the end of the month, the Berlin team is coming to La Tuque. On 29, she won the game. In March, Latuquois leach their opponents 5-0 to Berlin. During this journey, players face the captain Dicaire well-organized teams, including the Crimson Ramblers of Yale University. There are reports of these meetings in American newspapers as important as New York Times.
NY Times a st March 1920.
In Portland and Lewiston (at Bates College), Maine, and Sherbrooke, NIBROC won all three games. But in Berlin, New Hampshire, it lost 3-2 against employees of plants from Brown. According to the reporter of the Bulletin, the Latuquois have explained their defeat by heat: he was only 25 degrees below zero.
Interestingly, the majority of players on the team of Berlin are of French Canadian: L. Beaudoin, C. Dubey (probably Dubé), L. Fleury, O. Gregory, A. Morin O, Montminy. The other two skaters G. HT Brown and Raeburn.
In February this team beats Berlin hockey players of East-Angus, Estrie, before coming back to beat the NIBROC La Tuque, February 29. The Latuquois take their revenge by blanking the Berliners later.
Work is underway to replace the foot of the falls, the old power station by a more powerful.
The "side of the hospital, several times reworked. View of the golf club around 1920. Today is the coast of Bel-Air.
March
Staff Framework (staff) institutions at Brown say they very happy, and for good reason, they receive a wage increase of 20%.
hockey fever still abounds. The one from Bulletin April is partly devoted to visiting Berlin in La Tuque and holds another full page. Too bad we only give the names of two Latuquois only: Mongrain [3] and Lacroix.
APC, May 1920.
April
sudden death of Herman Martinson, general superintendent of the plant, whose son, Norman, will long be the supervisor boiler house, Department of the steam and recovery today. And recently, Eric the latter's son, tragically lost his life in an accident at work in the same factory.
May
APC, May 1920.
Long article about the evolution of the various institutions founded by the Browns in 1852, since the production of lumber through the pulp to the production of Kream Krisp , a shortening, grease a Emulsifiable for domestic which competes with Crisco, used by our mothers and grandmothers in the manufacture of pastry. Fat trigger a war of patents, because the makers of Crisco, Procter & Gamble, the Browns accuse them biting their invention [4] .
APC, May 1920
snippet on the relocation of Archives of Brown, in a building that was first occupied by staff of the Berlin and St. Maurice Quebec Industrial Co., name of the Brown Corporation from 1908 to 1917.
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A view on the southeast, probably taken from church steeple. In the foreground, the roof of the National Bank. We distinguish the tracks, the streets of St. Anthony and St. Louis and the second station. Behind it, the hotel Royal.
Photo of L. Side. La Toque posted a Miss Annie Oliversen (?), St. Paul, Minnesota, the text is written in a Scandinavian language.
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June
Amedee Paquin became white collar "main office" . He had been in 1907, the first postmaster of the town.
The Brown hired two nurses.
July
APC, July 1920.
Construction of the Community Club progresses. It has planted many trees to provide shade along the new alignment of the street. It is expected that the building is ready for winter.
Earlier this month, La Tuque receives many delegates from participating in the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. They arrived aboard a special train. The organizers are Simmons Brown, superintendent of the plant, B. Bjornlund, William L. Gillman and Fred Gilman.
August
An overview historic city
The article published in August. The author notes that it maintains the streets, there is electricity, telephone, a modern water and sewer. The city has a good cinema, good schools, churches and a hospital, in short everything a modern city has.
September
The police chief of La Tuque, Alfred Auclair, could ask an employee of Brown, who came from Berlin, to testify in an accident caused by excessive speed of a car company.
Construction office tally (the time Office) and Community Club is going well. Young people who engage in dance eagerly awaiting the opening of the Great Hall of the Club.
Baseball team employees of the plant at La Tuque has won three of four games against the Athletics in Berlin.
View of the plant from Brown, heading
Northeast, 1920.
October
JB Morneau and Alec (Alexander) Martel are part of the program directors of the Brown Company Relief Association, the insurance plan employees.
APC, October 1920
There is a shortage of manpower at the Sorting Gap , section of log sorting. We also lack of building materials in especially iron, and there are not enough homes.
The Club will not be ready for winter.
latuquois hockey officials, including Bill Gilman, manager of the rink, would see the creation of a league composed of teams from the valley of Saint-Maurice. And the Quebec Provincial appear Hockey League that has teams in La Tuque, Grand-Mother and Three Rivers, among others, and a Quebec club called the Voltigeurs. The clubs are mainly composed of francophones. La Tuque will then have a team in the Association Hockey Is Canada in the 1930s.
The St. Maurice Valley Chronicle, October 8, 1920.
November
2 and 3 November in Berlin, seventh annual meeting of leaders of the forestry division .
The list of participants sheds light on the localities where Brown has a place and people who are responsible. Over the years, it can happen that trace the career of each other.
are from Quebec Allaire JA and SC, HB Curran (Amqui) OJ Arseneault, CB Bradley, RE Hartley, TE Mack (La Tuque), VA Beede, PB Keens (Riviere-du-Loup ) WJ Brady, S. Redmond (St. Georges); JH Carter (Sanmaur) JS Cassidy, Stan Labbe, JA Morency, EW Morissette (Trois-Pistoles) SJ De Carteret, JC Corbett, Marcel Savard. J. Smith, JA Taylor (Quebec); Rock Lindsay, JH Pagé (Windigo), CH Mott (Yellow River); LP Jutras, JA Crawford (Lyster); Henri Pelletier (Saint-Raymond); EJ Daley (Craigs Road); Dubé JA (Berlin) I Robichaud (Rosary).
There were competitions between Americans and Canadians, not necessarily bosses or supervisors but also employees skilled in various athletic events. In total, it is the Americans who have accumulated the most points, but the competition rifle, it is the people from Quebec who won.
Collection hand-forged tools 
In the lot, there is a marker of the initial logs for QIC parts for the St. Maurice Quebec & La Tuque Industrial Co. ..
December
employees wish they could enjoy the sports equipment of the Community Club: gym, pool, bowling, billiards ...
The new power plant is operating and the rink was enlarged.
Aldor Dupont reported that they had set up a new cement: Cement Brick La Tuque.
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Advertisements treated
On some occasions, the back cover of the Bulletin has been promoting certain products from Brown. Among other things, "La Tuque Turpentine." At a time a wide range of chemicals in U.S. pharmacies, even turpentine, which in the manufacture of drugs these days ... Is this is the first product to export the name of our city United States? Quite possible. 
TBB June 1920 
TBB July 1920 
TBB October 1920
Another mention the environmental concerns of the company, its willingness to produce the less residual potential .
These pages are beautifully illustrated with works of graphic department of the company.
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[1]
A. Aldor Smith, Clerk, "History of the town of La Tuque, 1908-1962" , La Tuque, August 7, 1962, 225 pages format legal hardcover. Foreword by Lucien Filion, Mayor, and Leo A. Archambault, City Manager. Since this interesting and useful compilation of historical facts has been the subject of several photocopied versions.
[2] 
Contract Oscar Dicaire Hockey Club of La Tuque, the Quebec Provincial Hockey League.
The document for sale on Ebay, shows the signature of George Pabos McNaughton, a team player who signs as a witness.
Signature George Pabos McNaughtton
I can not decipher the signature of the President of the club. On another contract in 1921, the Gillard Stan is Simmons Brown in that position. McNaughton Brown will release the next season, and it which will then return to his former club, the Sons of Ireland, which, ironically, in this year, about 90% of Francophones. Like what Quebecers and Irish will always do well together here.
The sporting history has retained the name of McNaughton, who came from the Gaspe to work at La Tuque, but no doubt we had hired for his skills on the ice and package a team, George was famous as a scorer. He played a single game in the NHL for the Quebec Bulldogs, probably the first player of this caliber to come skate for a team latuquoise, the Warriors (Can you see a Native American inspired?) During the 1920-1921 season and one of Grandma, the following year. Still impressive to read the name of a hockey team latuquoise the listing a "legend" of hockey!
[3]
It is probably LP Mongrain, who signed his name without "T".
Six contracts team of La Tuque, Hockey Association in Eastern Canada / Eastern Canada Hockey association, which occurred in December 1931, offered by a trader from Montreal, indicate that the team president and that is Wentworth Brown Geo. Braithwaite who signs as a witness. Players: Sam Lajoie, Willie Chartrand, Raoul Montgrain, Odilon Lajoie, P. Mongrain, GB Hannahan. The president of this league is J. Emile Dion.
[4]
interesting text on the photo archives of the Brown Corporation. I found a reference to The Cayute! A certain Victor Beaudoin, in 1926, was commissioned to photograph all aspects of operations from Brown.
http://media.www.theclockonline.com/media/storage/paper569/news/2008/10/24/ArtsEntertainment/To.Infinity.And.Beyond.Brown.Paper-3503197. shtml
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A drawing not very correct
The Brown Bulletin January 1920, p. 5.
There is a good dose of scorn in this caricature of G. Young, titled "The function of committed, it's cake, but ...." The making of English speaking jargon to these French Canadians, presented here as beggars, yet the ones who are doing their best to make himself understood this to be monolingual English shows how some workers were able to collect: a workforce that was to show submission and devotion to employers who gave them work and who was lucky to find it!
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Lionel Albert Arseneault, Ducharme, Mayor Onesimus Dallaire, the officer Lionel Fortin, George Dion, Caramel Paquin, Roger Mulligan of L'Echo de La Tuque, Louis Abel. 
