School Archives | Laval, a Region Well Positioned for a Diversified Economy

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 […]

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 […]

People!

As the suburbs grew, farmland was turned into residential developments. Around 1930, the land behind the Maison St‑Domitille was still farmland—the farm of the Sisters of the Good […]