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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]