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A Wonderful Memory

The wooden Plessis Bélair Bridge was built in 1854. It connected Sainte-Rose to Bélair Island, in Rosemère. It was a toll bridge. In the early 19th century, vacationers […]

Watch your Wake!

The well-known ferry at Sigouin was located in Saint-Vincent de Paul and travelled between the eastern end of Île Jésus and the village of Sault-au-Récollet on the Island […]

A Gentle Trot

A winter outing on Des Prairies River in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, circa 1901. From the beginning of colonization until numerous bridges were built, ice bridges on the rivers served as […]

Hard Labour

For most of the year, lumberjacks worked as farmers or hunters or practised another trade. In winter, they went out to the logging camps (shanties) to supplement their […]

The Life of a Farmer

This drawing by Henry Wentworth Acland, done with brown ink on chamois paper, features an old farm in Saint-Martin on Île Jésus circa 1860. The landscape is typical […]

Aerial View

Aerial view of Sainte-Dorothée in the 1950s.