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In this gallery, photographs and archival documents, artefacts, drawings and topographic maps will allow you to discover the history of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade in pictures.
Topographic map showing the path followed by J A Rousseau from Brothers of the Sacred Heart school to Sainte-Anne Church which passed in front of the rectory.
Front view of a black cap with golden lace with the inscription Sainte Anne de la Pérade Toll bridge keeper carved on a metal badge.
Metal trowel with its handle covered with purple velvet on which is carved an inscription.
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.
Ticket number 1381 costing $2.50 for the passage of one car including its passengers on the Sainte-Anne de la Pérade toll bridge P Q the text is both in French and English.
Topographic map showing the path followed by J A Rousseau from Sainte-Anne Church toward the Sainte-Anne River tool bridge built parallel to the railway station.
Black and white photograph of Sainte-Anne’s bridge of which two arches of the wooden structure were destroyed by a scree and with debris lying in the river.
Black and white photograph of the Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade’s iron bridge built after the 1894 scree on which stand two men and a horse-drawn carriage.
Excerpt from a newspaper article reporting the blessing of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade’s new bridge by Monsignor Laflèche on May 27 1897 and recalling the destruction of the former bridge and the construction steps of the new one.
Black and white photograph of the iron bridge destroyed by the ice breakup of March 19 1936 with the structures remaining in the river and the Sainte-Anne Church on one shore. A gathering of seven people observes the damage from the remains of the footbridge on the other shore.
Black and white photograph of John Jones Ross’s house on île Saint-Ignace taken from the municipal bridge and of which the roof sticks out of the trees.
Black and white front view photograph of John Jones Ross’s house a charming villa surrounded by a covered porch with columns and a four gabled roof with symmetrical openings.
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