The adventure CLUB LATUQUOIS
Aerial photo of the farm of the Brown Corporation, circa 1948,
reported by Gaston Gravel. Source: Internet.
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ROSARY BÉLANGER (1924-2009).
Reproduction kindly allowed by L'Echo de La Tuque.
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On 27 December, in Shawinigan, died Rosary Belanger. For people of my generation and the next he was a unifier of the first order and its name refers primarily to the realization of a fantastic project which began in the mid 1960: Club Latuquois.
Displays Latuquois Club activities. 1979.
Photo: Gilles Berthiaume. Source: Leisure Plus June 1979, p. 10.
In 1965 he and some fellow members of the Association of mutual benefits for employees of International Paper Company, Roland Wagner, Émérild Vaillancourt, Roland Roy and Dave Braithwaite, among others, helped by volunteers, including Roch Lortie, Martine Legendre and Norman Theberge, had the idea of setting up this meeting place, recreation and culture unparalleled in Mauricie.
August 3, 1966, two full pages of L'Echo de La Tuque, including one report of the grand design of the IPC staff whose implementation is well underway on land previously owned Hydro-Quebec and the former farm of the Brown Corporation.
Opening Club Latuquois including Rosary Belanger was the president, said in July 1966. Over 800 employees of the IPC had previously paid a small weekly sum to be part and contributed to his coming who, during the first three years had required $ 300 000 in expenses of all kinds.
In this photo from the 1960s, lent by Dave Tafel, a team of workers assigned to the sorting station wood factory of the IPC takes a break. Left Ti-Jean Pelletier, the blacksmith whose galley was located in the yard. The man with the cap, was the center, remembers Dave, Lorenzo had as a pronoun. In the distance, the Brown farm prior to its development by members of the Club Latuquois.
In the era of paper! At Club
Latuquois in those years, the trade was mostly on paper! Publication simple, unpretentious the newsletter of the Association members called SATELLITE , and was printed using a rotary machine, a Gestetner, and despite the appearance the photocopier. The Gestetner remained the ideal machine for printing Quick releases, flyers ... and butter fingers!
Here, in facsimile, a number of SATELLITE the June 1969 printed through this process. He advised members of the Association of cultural activities and sports in La Tuque.
In 1967 was laid in the floor of the large barn, which would become both the local coffee house, The Cayute, founded last year by Jacques "Coco" Gold . Lortie Roch was the agent of the Association Liaison with the team song box. It was he who, on behalf of the Club, signed contracts with artists or their manager.
It Yvon Deschamps inaugurate the program, unusually on a Thursday evening.
Yvon Deschamps rested on the scene Cayute with Michel Grandbois, Professor "beginner" at school and amateur baseball Champagnat, who presented the monologue, and somewhat singer the audience. (Photo: Pierre Cantin)
An anecdote knowledge about baseball Michel Grandbois, be involved then the team's football school Champagnat, the Vikings. Accompanied by a former classmate, a time resident of La Tuque, Serge Drapeau, he proceeded to retrieval of players available to create the new team in Montreal in the National League, Expos. Their choices were of such accuracy that the two maniacs had been the subject of an article by journalist Fernando Liboiron sport in the late Unionist newspaper, Montreal-Matin.
The Club was visited by two Ministers of Quebec Unionists: Gabriel Loubier, Tourism, and Fernand Lafontaine, Highways, which have signed the guestbook. The occasion was the opening of Highway 19 to Lac-Saint-Jean, in May 1969.
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THE CAYUTE: cultural component Club Latuquois
In 1966, Jacques "Coco" Gold had gathered some young people and founded a coffee house whose performances took place in a garage in the backyard of a residence downtown.
In 1967, the people of Latuquois invites the team to participate in the development of the vast floor of the barn and settle there. With the help of skilled workers, we proceed to business. Thus, in an attempt to insulate the great hall, which lies immediately above Latuquois Club, which presents shows more popular, hundreds and hundreds of empty bottles are scattered beneath the floor ... not too successful, because some nights, the lower the ground floor threatened the phrasing of singers from the stage.
Latukois Latukoises and will have the opportunity to hear, during three summers, the biggest names in Quebec music of the time: Jean-Pierre Ferland, Pierre Calvé. Renée Claude, Raymond Lévesque, Yvon Deschamps, Yvon Deschamps, Pierre Létourneau, among others.
Tickets are printed on the quiet, traditional way, in the basement of the "main office" of the plant: Alexandre Martel, head of the printer amateur, never did hear talk of involuntary contribution ... New York-to the multinational Quebec culture ...
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Evening opening THE CAYUTE
July 1967, on the floor of the old barn of the Brown Corporation, on the banks of the Bostonians, bravely and beautifully revamped by a group of factory employees of IPC: inaugural show space occupied by the second song box THE CAYUTE, creation of Coco shy Jacques Doré, behind the serious bass player accompanying the duo The Alexandrians, engaged for the occasion. Posing in front of a giant reproduction of a cartoon by Jean-Pierre Ferland, signed Normand Hudon, and has drawn Denis Binet, who later gave a show, some young people will be those who will lead for three summers of this great hall. I will try to identify From left, standing: Gilles Rouillard, Jean-Paul Rioux, Jacques Lessard, Claude Lapointe, Louise Lavoie, Andre Demers, Claude Marchand, Lise Cousineau (of Alexandria), André St-Pierre, Coco walleye, bass, Lynn Aube. SEATED: Pierre Cantin, Michelle Bellefeuille, Sonia Ferron, Lyne Gilbert, Leona Pelletier, Lucette Bouchard, Luc Cousineau (of Alexandria), Andre Cournoyer, Danielle Hebert. The photographer, Gilles Berthiaume, "cut" Luce Rouillard, right, spouse of Jacques Doré. She has held dozens of positions abroad, in Embassies and High Commissions in the country.
[Caption borrowed from Pierre Cantin, site I come from LA TOQUE]
Gilles Vigneault has signed this program at his visit to The Cayute.
Among the patrons of La Cayute over the years, there was the photographer Gilles Berthiaume, who has often documented his activities with the owner of Bus Chevrette, Raymond Chevrette, and Maurice Gilbert, "the friend" discrete section Advertising, which recently lost his wife, Gisele Vachon, who died last December 11. It was she who had crafted the magnificent curtain of jute box.
This organization, by its consistency and quality of its programming has completed a major project of socio-cultural life in La Tuque.
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Louise Houde kindly allowed me to use this magnificent view Latuquois Club, taking the field Morency in 2000.
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High School St. Zéphirin ... yet!
Gaston Gravel, meanwhile, gave me a pleasant surprise to me two photos related to this école.La first, a photo of members of the school choir, taken in 1951. Assisted by Richard Scarpino and Rock Bacon he identified the majority of singers.
Several readers of my blog will surely recognize a loved one.
Click on photo to enlarge it and read the names.
Here is the list of boys identified.
Marc Arbour, Roger Beaudet, André Beaudoin, Leo Belanger Paulo Bertrand Robert Bilodeau, Bolduc, Robert Bouchard, Serge Bouchard, Roger Charland, Cloutier, Robert Deziel, Andre Dompierre, Paul Duchesne, Jean-Paul Ferron, Yvon Ferron, Marcel Gilbert, Claude Gingras, Gaston Gingras, Camil Hebert Yvon Labarre, Claude Lapointe, Maurice Lucas, André Lévesque, Yvon Miller, Parent, Jean-Yves Pilon, Gaston Provencher, Jacquelin Rioux Rowluck Germain, Jacques Roy, Jacques Scalzo, André Simard, Rejean Tessier, Gilles Vaillantcourt Guy Vaillantcourt, Andre Veillette, Michel Veillette, André brother Maurice.
I will be happy to add the missing names.
rare view from inside the premises of St. Zephirin, probably the schedule, during a typing class. Business course? The second from left is Andrew Hamel. Who are the others? The photo was probably taken in March 1951 or 1952, according to this poster, in English, celebrating Pius X beatified in 1951. Also on the wall, an ad for Coca-Cola and a calendar. Through the window, it seems to see the mountains in the west.
Photo courtesy of Gaston Gravel.
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The "college" St. -Zéphirin in the 1940s. At right, the building that hosted the bakery Comeau then of Fluet. Postcard provided by Gaston Gravel.
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Gaston recurrence by finding a photo archive (Internet) that he associated with a gorgeous postcard from the 1940s showing old plants of Maloney, the sorting station logs down the Saint-Maurice, located upstream of the plant.
The big building was the "coukerie" (kitchen): large tables, long benches and a poster before entering, an array of developing production of both teams. My foreman was BELLAVANCE winner, a nice guy, brother Baptiste, foreman of the "pipers" in the factory.
This postcard was listed on the site I COME FROM THE BEANIE (Facebook), an active meeting place, members strong in 1630 (remember when this page), exchanging photos and memories, and that is becoming the meeting place for people interested in the history of the city. Rather extraordinary example of what is called "social networking" ... And now I learn that another collective site SMURFIT-STONE has just seen the day on Facebook, and offers interesting documents on the history of the plant over centuries.
Back when I worked at the GAP, we went there by taxi, driven by Ruel Bernard (car Sarto Veillette) and from there they crossed by boat to our workplace.
I stood on the boom (boom), and with a "gaffe" of 12 feet, along a rod with a hook of iron, I was pushing the logs from 8 to 12 feet between two booms ; a worker vis-à-vis another. A Mr. Langlais, relatives of my father me partner. We worked on shifts 12 hours.
Tafel Dave drew on his archives of slides and provided me with photos that illustrate the Gappe in the 1960s. Thank you, Dave.
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latuquois The group in front of Place des Arts, Montreal. 
At the first concert, organized by the Association of Marist College in Laval to mark the 75th anniversary of e Marist in this establishment, which also put on display the famous tenor Richard Verreau Quebec and a renowned trumpeter, Leonard Smith, director of Harmony concert Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Scandinavia, Aubert Montgrain had the happy idea of the program a "Festival Felix Leclerc. 
an unpublished document: Aubert Montgrain and Laurette Blais. 
Women's Hockey 
