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Commemorative Trowel

Close up of the trowel’s metallic part with the inscription Presented to Monsignor L.F. Laflèche, Trois-Rivières’s Bishop by George Beaucage on the occasion of the laying of the new bridge’s first stone on the Sainte-Anne de la Pérade River September 22 1895.

Commemorative trowel of the start of the construction work of the municipal bridge, artifact, 1895.

Source: Musée des Ursulines de Trois-Rivières, photograph by Alexandre Pétrin

Detail of the trowel presented to His Grace L. F. Laflèche, Trois-Rivières’s Bishop, by George Beaucage on the occasion of the laying of the new bridge’s first stone on the Sainte-Anne River on September 22, 1895.