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

Constantly Growing

Today, Laval is an urban centre with all the characteristics of a major world city.

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.

Interview with Vyckie Vaillancourt, owner of O’Citrus

Interview with Vyckie Vaillancourt, owner of O’Citrus, and the seventh-generation successor of the Auteuil, Laval, farm [Vyckie Vaillancourt]: My name is Vyckie Vaillancourt and I’m the owner of […]

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 […]

Interview with Jacques A. Catudal, founding president of the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Laval

Interview with Jacques A. Catudal, founding president of the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Laval [Music: soft classical piano] Title on screen on black background: Interview with […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]