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

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 […]

And more Rock!

This quarry was opened by Napoléon Lagacé in 1929. At the time, it was called La Carrière Lagacé Ltée. It produced crushed and foundation stone. In 1943, its […]

Rock

For more than a century, quarries were a driving force of the Île Jésus economy. Even the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul penitentiary had a quarry. However, the cut stone extracted there […]