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Outlined in white, a reproduction of a painted portrait of Paschal Persillier Sr. The photograph behind the portrait represents the current state of the house built by his son Pascal, on the corner of the main street (Gouin Blvd.) and Du Pont Street.
Outlined in white, a reproduction of a painted portrait of Paschal Persillier Sr. The photograph behind the portrait represents the current state of the house built by his son Pascal, on the corner of the main street (Gouin Blvd.) and Du Pont Street.
Jocelyn Duff and Jean Poitras discuss the origin of a nail found by the latter.
After a snowfall, two hydraulic turbines are covered in white. Today, they lay still above the level of the water going through the dike. To their right, an old masonry wall.
A rusted waterwheel from a hydraulic turbine was left on the ground near the miller’s house.
Postcard published around 1900. In the centre: a paper mill, on the left: its tall smokestack overlooking the mill’s dike, cluttered with barrels and other materials. In the foreground: a roll-in dock on the water basin.
Black and white aerial photographs of La Visitation Island in 1947. The mills are on the left, on the dike between the islands of Montreal and La Visitation. The Des Prairies River hydroelectric power plant is on the right, between La Visitation Island and Île Jésus (Laval).
This illustration shows the various buildings that have occupied the dike, and their use. Circled in red, the only building still standing today: the miller’s house, on the Island of Montreal’s shore.
On the left, behind a tree planted on La Visitation Island, the warehouse and smokestack of the Back River Power Company. To their right, the factory and dike.
Behind a fence of wooden planks painted white, the building that housed the offices of the Back River Power Company in 1942. Masonry is visible on the ground floor, but there is a different wall colouring on the second floor. A balcony with an inclined roof was added.
Newspaper clipping from The Gazette: Mr. Oberlander and another wrestler sign the City of Montréal’s Golden Book.
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