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The mills site in the fall of 1976

Aerial view of the mills site in 1976. In the centre: the water of the Des Prairies River flows through the dike and abandoned industrial buildings. In the foreground and to the left, the site of the future Île-de-la-Visitation Nature Park. On the right, a row of duplexes.

Aerial photograph: Rhéal Benny, fall 1976. Archives de Montréal, VM-94-B209-019

Aerial view of the mills site in the fall of 1976, a few years before the expropriation and demolition of the industrial buildings.