Forging mills of the Saint-Maurice
The Forges of the St-Maurice are the oldest forging mills with the Quebec (and with the Canada). One manufactured there cast iron and steel for all the uses of time. It is located on the edges of the Rivière Saint-Maurice, all with the top of the coast which carries out to it.
Located at 15 minutes of the downtown area of Three-Rivers, the national historical place of Canada of the Forging mill-of-Saint-Maurice commemorates the establishment of the first industrial community to the Canada. The site is vast and of very many archaeological vestiges the birth and the evolution of the first Canadian iron and steel industry recall.
With the Forging mills, one can devote oneself to an incomparable variety of activities: to visit exposures and to attend a son et lumi2ere display to the large house, to enquérir itself of the production of the cast iron to the blast furnace, to take part in an interesting guided visit of the marked out site of panels of interpretation, to profit from an enriching school program which takes account of the school reform, to discover the fountain of the devil, to borrow a natural path skirting the Rivière Saint-Maurice, to benefit from a green big space where it is always pleasant spade-to screw.
This historical place shelters the vestiges of the first iron and steel company in Canada. Established in 1730, these forging mills functioned during more than 150 years. Benefit from the guided visits to discover the history surrounding the Canadian forging mills and steel-works of 18th and 19th centuries. The surfaces of picnic as well as the external circuit traversing the industrial vestiges will enable you to combine cultural visit and day outdoor.
The Forging mills of the St-Maurice are founded the March 25th 1730 by the sior François Poulin de Francheville.
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