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

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 […]

Businesswomen Join Forces

In the early 1980s, businesswomen began to organize and network. Laval was no exception and organized activities so that women could share their experiences. Among the businesswomen in […]

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 […]

United We Stand!

The economic development of a region or city was long the domain of a boy’s club, as can be seen in this photograph of members of the Association […]

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 […]

Citizen Involvement

As urban sprawl developed in the 1960s and 1970s, residential neighbourhoods were getting closer and closer to quarry sites. Around the mid-1970s, citizen protests were organized to denounce […]

An Afternoon on the River

Our ancestors knew how to have fun. This postcard from 1910 features one of the canoe regattas that were held on Des Prairies River in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. This type […]

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 […]