architect Ernest trifluvian Denoncourt, who drew the plans of the Central School, built in 1948 and 1949, took advantage of his stay in La Tuque to take pictures of the residence Romulus Ducharme, and the first parish church of St. Zephirin, we moved to the corner of St. Anthony and St. George and serves as a school.
Here are five views of the first family residence Ducharme, from an online archive of the Inter-University Centre for Quebec Studies.
The photos are from 1948.
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The facade of the house, located next to the courtyard of the "college" St. Zephirin, gives 1910 as date of construction.
At the time the street number was 273, Commercial Street.
In the foreground, note the religious , accompanied by a girl, probably resident of the orphanage located a little further down Commercial Street, past the coast of hospital .
South side.
right, there are clearly a part of the facade of St. Zéphirin school.
The back wall, looking west and the future of Bel-Air.
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The beginnings were modest Ducharme counsel. He was the first of his profession to settle permanently in La Tuque, which will be the chief law.
It will first in politics in the federal arena, before being first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec under the banner of the National Liberal Agenda in 1931 as representative of the County Laviolette. Then it will follow Maurice Duplessis, founder of the National Union.
He won his seat Unionist eight times from 1936 to 1962 . He retired from politics in 1966. He died in La Tuque, February 15, 1976.
1936 
In June, Ducharme is hospitalized in Quebec and can not sit in the Legislature.
In September 1936, Ducharme, MP in opposition, and the Mayor of La Tuque of the time, which was popular Bloc candidate at that election, meet government officials to apply their road leading to Lac-Saint-Jean. They will have to wait nearly 30 years to get it.
A photo of happy marriage, their friend Ducharme just been re-elected again: Real Gravel, F.-X. Lamontagne, Oscar Fontaine, Ducharme, Aldor Dupont Idola Duchesne and Lucien Ringuet. All wear the ribbon bearing the surname of the member, arranged vertically.
Photo courtesy of Gaston GRAVEL
citizens and citizens contesting the assessment of their property. Among them, the farmer Rosary Bouchard, who has apartment buildings, a retired member, Marie-Paule Vezina Pierre Vezina and Club golf and curling.
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Yves Guillemette, creator of THE TUQUE, people, places, times, scored two recent photos (August 2010) of the second house occupied by the family Ducharme, built on the same lot adjacent to the Complexe culturel Félix-Leclerc, boulevard Ducharme.
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