Forestville

Forestville is a city of the Quebec (Canada), located in the regional Municipalité of county of High-Coast-North, in the administrative area of the Coast-North.

History

The Town of Forestville was born in 1937, but it is only on May 1st, 1944 that incorporation became official. Initially known under the name of Sault with the Pigs, it was renamed Forestville in the honor of Mr Grand W. Forrest managing of the first sawmill installed with the mouth of the Sault river to the Pigs in 1845.

The currency of the city east " Per Sylvam" , which wants to say by our forests. Never a currency will have been just, because Forestville exists mainly because of the exploitation of the forests of High Coast-North and its future in is largely tributary still today.

Forestville is a relatively young city but with a past filled of history. Archaeological excavations confirmed the presence of Amerindians on the territory (one can admire certain artefacts with the museum of the Small Anglican). The area of Coast-North on the other hand was visited very little by Europeans since it was used almost exclusively for the trade of the furs.

Pioneers settle for the first time about 1845. The principal attraction being the forest, the required activity was the sawing of wood. Only one ten families populate the place.

It is into 1870 that " Forrest-ville" * a second breath begins again. The Price sawmill is in activity and gives employment to 21 families.

  • name given in the honor of Mr. Grant Forrest

The revolution of paper

With the arrival of new technologies, the techniques of sawing and production are improved. The future turns now to the industry of the pastes and papers. The Price company goes bankrupt. It is the company Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills ltd. who makes reappear Forestville. It builds an ultramodern paper factory in the area of Quebec. As this production requires important quantities of wood, the company buys the concessions for the Forestvillois territory. One begins construction from the temporary buildings and of the workmen start to come to settle but it is into 1942 that truths constructions start. Several infrastructures, still present today, appear. Forestville develops and the first elections are planned for the " first legal day of February 1947 ".

Historical infrastructures

The arboriduc

The arboriduc, so known under the name of " pave humide" or " floom" was set up in 1942 by the company Canadian Anglo Pulp and Paper Milles ltd. Its role was to forward the wood blocks to the port to be charged on the barges. This arboriduc is located at the mouth of the river of Sault to the Pigs, from which the wood came which could float on several kilometers. The loggers cut their wood in the camps of the company and one placed it in the river. Since the trucks were used little at that time. The wood floatation on the rivers was the most accessible means and most powerful. Thousands of wood balls traversed the way drawn by the river of Sault to the Pigs under the supervision of the draveurs.

With the arrival of new means of transport and the ecological impact that the floatation of wood had, one ceased any activity with the arboriduc and it became a vestige reporting the industry of the wood of antan.

Museum the Small Anglican

" The Trinity Church" as one calls it at the time, is built in 1948 on the site of the boiler room of Anglo Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills ltd. It is dedicated on June 19th, 1955.

The last service in the church takes place on October 28th, 1979. the Town of Forestville acquires the temple in 1993 when Daishowa gives up its forest operations with Forestville. The Company of History of Forestville becomes tenant then about it. The museum " Small Anglicane" open on July 7th, 1994.

Economy

Representations federal and provincial

Forestville belongs to the electoral constituency of Montmorency - Charlevoix - High-Coast-North with the Parlement of Canada and the district of Rene-Lévesque to the National Assembly of Quebec.


Municipalities bordering

Sources

  • Government of Quebec

  • Ministry for the municipal businesses and the areas
  • Commission of toponymy of Quebec
  • municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts
  • Cartography - Forestville

  • Site of the town of Forestville

External bonds

  • Site of the town of Forestville

  • Econolodge Forestville

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