In June 1926, The Brown Bulletin proposed an article by Wesley E. Creighton, who has lived in St-Maurice, who briefly described the scene when the Browns decided to install a pulp mill in La Tuque. The text was accompanied by 11 photographs, unpublished which, according to the author, was taken in 1909. They are therefore more than a century old.
By clicking on the graphic below, we get a larger image of the page.
I simply translated the text and captions of his pictures. We find that, like Felix Leclerc, in his book, Barefoot in dawn editor, he seems to have mixed the cardinal points.
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Reminiscences of La Toque, 1909 - When
Brown Corporation appeared on the scene
" In 1909, the Brown Corporation undertook construction in La Tuque and what was once a small village, one might call a single camp, became a lively theater.
Before the railroad was a difficult place to reach. There is a horse resulted in a trail or in the back Saint-Maurice canoe, from the Grandes Piles.
At the time, the city was located on what is now known as the 'Plains', half of which has disappeared. The hotel and the other houses along the river, had been displaced or had slipped into the river due to current changes that led to the erosion of the high sandbanks (1) .
In 1910, for travel to that village, he had to take the train at the junction of La Tuque, on the line of the Canadian Northern Railway, then go forty miles on a train which was used for operations Construction of the old Lake St. John Railway Company. A rather irregular schedule. Apparently, the trains only ran to accommodate the Brown Corporation, when it was in need of building materials or contractors who implement the railway, McDonald and O'Brien.
Downstairs, the place called the "No. 4", had only six houses! The eastern part of the present city, on the other side of the CN tracks, the village contained only one house and a small sawmill on the other side of the lake, and South-East he had some six huts.
cows and horses roamed the streets and found to graze as well as in the fields. Hares showed up in the courts and we did not have to walk ten or twelve miles to catch fish, as is the case today.
The electric lighting was reduced to a minimum: a simple post here and there, lit up the place. The pictures here were taken arranged when the Quebec Industrial Co. and St. Maurice (Brown Corporation) launched its operations here. "
- Wesley E. Creighton
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La Tuque, 1949. Workers leave the office after time card punched their attendance.
Source: Beyond Brown Paper website.
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A document allegedly found its way to the page on Tessier Street. A pass of 
Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, issued in 1903 to a doctor, Robert Bell, chief executive of the Geological Survey of Canada.
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