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Paper pulp mixer

Mixer that makes pulp out of textile fibres. This pulp was used to make sheets of paperboard. Photograph dated 1942.

Women working in wartime

Women working at the Back River Power Company take part in the war effort by preparing cardboard packaging for ammunition that will be shipped to the European front […]

Tennis on ice near the La Visitation school

Racket in hand and wearing skates, Joseph Danis and three other players are playing a doubles game of tennis in the middle of February. A net has been […]

La Visitation Island and the Des Prairies River hydroelectric power plant in 1947

Aerial view of La Visitation Island and the Des Prairies River hydroelectric power plant in 1947. The mills are on the left, between the islands of Montreal and La Visitation. The […]