Buildings & Structures Archives | Laval, a Region Well Positioned for a Diversified Economy

We still love it!

Although it sounds like a cliché, our first contact with a cultural community came through restaurants, such as those serving Chinese cuisine, which everyone loves.

The Next Generation

Today, more and more women are running businesses, even in traditionally male domains. For example, Vyckie Vaillancourt, owner of O’Citrus, is the seventh generation to take over her […]

Future Nurses

Women have long worked in so-called traditional occupations. Cécile L. Dagenais founded and ran the Sainte-Rose General Hospital in 1957. In 1962, she founded and ran the École […]

Strength in Numbers

With the opening of the Laval public market in June 1983, a wide variety of specialized food stores came together, to the great delight of the community’s food […]

Higher Education at Last!

It wasn’t until the early 1970s that Laval residents finally had access to a college in their region. However, the current building, which can be seen here on […]

Elementary school

You may think that country schoolhouses had only a few students. This elementary school, which was located on Rang du Haut-Saint-François in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, proves otherwise. The countryside was […]

Rock

For more than a century, quarries were a driving force of the Île Jésus economy. Even the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul penitentiary had a quarry. However, the cut stone extracted there […]

Not So Clean Energy

While there are no longer any oil industry facilities in Laval today, there was once a refinery in Saint-François.

Clean Energy

Electrification and energy generation were determining factors in the development of the economy of Quebec as well as of Laval. The Des Prairies River dam, built in the […]

A Variety of Services

Neighbourhood businesses sometimes offered an unusual combination of services, as can be seen here. A taxi service, a restaurant, a hairdressing salon and a drugstore were all housed […]

Only the Best!

Neighbourhood businesses had to diversify to serve their customers. J. O. Labelle ran a grocery store and a restaurant at the same address.

Everything!

The Ouimet sisters ran a general store in the village of Sainte-Rose for many years. You could find a little bit of everything there: fabric, perfume, dolls, flowers, […]