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From wood to concrete

Bordeleau to DANSEREAU

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Covered Bridges of an era and demonstrate how locomotion reminiscent of yesteryear, especially the horse-drawn carriage.

THE "OLD BRIDGE RED"

This type of construction for nearly three decades allowed to span the Little and Great Bostonians, rivers at the extreme south and north of La Tuque before the concrete itself as material, stronger, more stable.

The four "B"

These two covered bridges were curiously the same name, Bordeleau, that of the Liberal MLA at the time, Bruno Bordeleau (1868-1929). In that time, a politician does not take a chance and took the right steps to ensure that his name - and his works - go right away to the story. Thus, the small member did not wait to pronounce his funeral oration: he made sure we named the two wooden bridges to his name.

Bruno Bordeleau (1868-1929), doctor, mayor of St. Thecla from 1912 to 1916, when he was elected member for Champlain. He will be back in 1919 and 1923.

The North, installed angle on the Greater Boston area, came to be nicknamed the "old red bridge." We had requested the installation in 1912, and it's seven years later, in May 1919, seems to be that the member Bordeleau conduct its inauguration at the same time he s'emble the other, smaller cast on Little Bostonians, just above the falls further downstream than the current structure of the concrete 155.

During his inauguration, Aldor Dupont wrote in his manuscript on the history of La Tuque, the chief of police had set up posters forbidding to smoke and to trot. It did install five electric lamps of 100 volts each.

According to Smith, this would be the insistence of Hippolytus Michy, then parish priest of La Croche, but also vicar of St. Zephirin (he christened Felix Leclerc), the City will decide in 1917 to erect covered bridge down the road leading to The Bostonians, having acquired land to extend the path to the river Bostonians. A book not too well constructed as the following year, he will need repairs and that the City will use a grant from the provincial government to replace the wooden pillars.

Until then, we built each year, a temporary bridge, that the spring flood was responsible for carting. Cétait long before there is formed the great body of water impounded by the dam built in 1939-1940. In 1913, the City would have paid a $ 125 grant to EM McLaren, an employee of the Laurentide Pulp Mills, which has a plant in Grand-Mother, it installs one this year. The company has logging operations in northern Greater Boston.

right, the farmer's house of Brown and the great barn and became the Club Latuquois.

Françoise Bordeleau reminded me that in Chapter V of his autobiography, Barefoot in the dawn [1] , Felix Leclerc was referring to the bridge installed across and reported the unusual appearance:

"After the city, he writes, was the cemetery that Dad bowed finger, and after the cemetery, a zigzag sandy coast along the fields. I recognized the two oxen [2] the procession of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, who worked at stumps in a meadow. From a distance we saw a covered bridge, built oddly, loitering near which the fishermen ... "

On this street map of 1943 shows clearly the position of the covered bridge at the end of the street Bostonians . Note the quasi-official recognition of the name Lake Abattoir which, in fact, was a small bay, created after the waters of the Saint-Maurice retained by the newly built dam.

Detail shot of the plan made by the Shawinigan Engineering for the annual City La Tuque, in 1943. Kindly provided by Roland Boudrault.

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In 1934, further repairs are needed. The bridge is a vital link to La Croche.

In 1942, travel on the covered bridge had become dangerous. There was also banned for several years, access to heavy loads. One delegation presented himself at La Tuque to study the situation. Among the politicians, the Liberal Minister of Highways, Damien Télesphore Bouchard. We saw fit to replace him.

Here is the place chosen for the construction of new concrete bridge, parallel to that Canadian National. The configuration of the mouth of the Greater Boston area has changed somewhat with the construction of the dam at St. Maurice Power (a subsidiary of the Brown Corporation) and the Shawinigan Water and Power, completed in 1940.

And we launched a call for tenders. In September, there is a skin too high ones were submitted.

Mayor Omer Journault the municipal manager Armand Gagnon and aldermen went Batiscan to meet with the parties concerned and discuss the problem. Finally, the following year, the site was launched: the woods would give way to concrete.

The construction is entrusted to Onesimus Boisvert, an entrepreneur from Shawinigan.

In this photo you can see the old red bridge, still in use, but which was removed the roof. Probably have we used the wood for the new needs. It is in times of war!

Shawinigan The contractor is proud to announce the completion.

The Nouvelliste October 23, 1943. Archive Herve Tremblay.

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The concrete structure, intended as to be part of a future road to Roberval, Lac Saint-Jean, built alongside the Canadian National railroad bridge, bear the name of Dansereau, since it Georges-Étienne Dansereau (1898-1959 ), MP for Argenteuil, who, March 15, 1944, will succeed, as Minister of Highways, to Bouchard, who had just been appointed Senator. He will remain in office only five months ago, but long enough to give his name for the new bridge.

In 1944, according to Smith's assertion in its history Aldor La Tuque, the City would have bought by Alex Georgieff, for the sum $ 3000, which led the field at the southern entrance of the bridge. In the recently published book on the centennial of the city, it indicates that the land was sold for $ ... $ 1. Who to believe?

Note that the new bridge approaches are gravel: it will be years before we proceed macadamizing its approaches.

1946: demolition of what remains of the old covered bridge Bordeleau. It's the end of the period covered bridges in the immediate outskirts of La Tuque.

Dansereau deck in the summer 1947.

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In the late nineteenth century, an illustrator, LR O'Brien was already celebrating the beauty of the Greater Boston area. His illustration, naturally presented on the romantic mode, showing two bark canoes, appeared June 22, 1889 in Harper's Weekly.

Three scenes of the river, taken in summer 1945.

The rapid Broken.

The rapid Laprise.

The rapid Laprise.

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At SOUTH

Falls Little Bostonians in 1916

In May 1919, the member is Bruno Bordeleau crossing at La Tuque for the official inauguration of the second covered bridge, located at the head of Little Falls Bostonians, but located outside the city limits.

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About the same time, in the 1940s, destroyed the covered bridge to the south exit, which is not yet part of the city to replace it with a concrete structure, located further upstream on the current route of the 155.

Photos illustrating this construction site, including the new road alignment.

Southbound

Northbound.

Bridge Expansion in the 1960s. Archives Françoise Bordeleau.

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There are two covered bridges in very good condition, in The Bostonians sector: Ducharme and Thiffault bridges, built upon, or near where they demolished bridges Bordeleau.

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[1] Funny coïcncidence, Leclerc's book published in 1946, year of the demolition of the bridge "funny frame".

[2] These two oxen belonged to Alexander Georgieff is a pioneer settlers of the town. He was of Bulgarian origin. The picture of two of his children wielding a plow pulled by two animals has been around the country. I return.

In 1953, we presented the bronze medal of the Order of the pioneer to his son, Steven, who was also a dairy. Archives Françoise Bordeleau.

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