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Félix Leclerc

Novelist, poet, actor and singer-songwriter, Félix Leclerc has used his many talents to promote the identity of Quebecers.

La Tuque, Brown Corporation Plant.

The Brown Corporation played a major role in the development of La Tuque.

Drivers

To keep track of the logs floating on the Saint-Maurice, log drivers often worked from boats, such as barges, lighters and steamboats called alligators.

To Each Their Own

Drivers took considerable risks to transport enormous amounts of wood to the mills. In 1942, the Compagnie de flottage du Saint-Maurice had sent about 55,000 logs down the river, […]

Basic Comfort

Despite the harshness of their work, the loggers had only basic comfort when they returned to camp in 1926.

Lumber Camp

Around 1940, these loggers occupied a camp at Rapide-Blanc, located more than 230 kilometres north of Trois-Rivières.

Hunting Camp

Haute-Mauricie once had several Indigenous hunting camps like this one caught on camera around 1929. The Atikamekw settled there in the fall and spring to hunt game.