I had not seen these photos [1] which date from 1948 and would have taken the architect Ernest trifluvian Denoncourt of passage in the La Tuque part of building a new school, the "boarding girls ", the future Central School, erected at the corner of St. Joseph and St. Eugene, still in use.
Denoncourt had drawn plans of the school, as was the case in 1937 to design an addition to St. Zéphirin school.
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Photo taken from the Rue Saint-Georges.
The west side of the church and sacristy, detached from the building and installed at an angle.
We distinguish the north wall of the second church, as the game of tennis [2] located parallel to the Rue Saint-Georges.
The wall is seen since the corner of St. George and St. Anthony gives an idea of the steepness of the slope. We had to set the building on stilts.
Western Wall and the facade overlooking the South.
This picture easier to see how we secured the sacristy to the church.
can see the traces (dark) on the back wall of the church, the area occupied by the sacristy before the détache.On we installed a hallway-balcony to switch one party to another.
The photo, taken August 6, 1948, from the Rue Saint-Joseph at the top of the Rue Saint-Eugene, gives an idea of the state of the construction of the Central School and can see the presence, background, the two churches.
Note also the "Curb Service", which became the Pignon Rouge. The exterior of south wall is unfinished.
We also recognize the white building located at the corner of St. Joseph and St. Louis, still standing today, and some houses of that street.
October 8, 1948, the steel structure
Central School takes shape.
In the background, it receives a portion of the plant of the Brown Corporation.
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Gaston Gravel gave me this picture of the first church choir.
[1] photos from the archives of the Inter-University Centre for Quebec Studies.
[2] This postcard, probably from the 1940s, maybe 1950, can pinpoint the location of the tennis game and moved to the sacristy.
It shows much of the area called "The Aus-Side-du-Lac. It distinguishes Street St. Paul, St. Augustine and St. Louis, oriented north-south along the street from the beach, north of Lake St. Louis ..
top left, the barn of the Brown Corporation, built in the early 1920s, along Brown Avenue, then at Saint-Michel, built in 1921.
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