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Category: Water

Signal station, Grondines, 1932

Signal station, Grondines, 1932

Interviewer: If we’re talking about the lighthouse itself, when you arrived there in 1946, what was there around the lighthouse? Maurice Côté: There was nothing. I.: Were there […]
Grondines wharf, 1990

Grondines wharf, 1990

The first wharf, probably built in the second half of the 19th century, was acquired by the federal government in 1904. Some twenty years later, it was abandoned, […]
Shipbuilding, circa 1900

Shipbuilding, circa 1900

At the end of the 19th century, no less than two-thirds of the barges built in Portneuf County came from Grondines. “Not only did Grondines account for more […]