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Exterior View of the Sleeper and Akhurst Factory

Black and white photograph of several factory buildings with falls from a dam on the Coaticook River in the foreground. In the distant background are some houses on the top of a hill.

Year: 1891

Credits: Beaulne Museum

A hydroelectric power station that played a pioneering role in the industrialization of Coaticook.