Valley-Jalbert

Valley-Jalbert is an old village of the Quebec. Its territory, which belonged today to the municipality of Chambord, with the Lake-Saint-Jean, was transformed into tourist attraction in the Années 1970.

History

Valley-Jalbert is an old village of the Lake-Saint-Jean now attracted tourist regional (phantom Ville).

Located at the limit of the municipalities of Roberval and Chambord, it is founded in 1901 when Damas Jalbert of the Lake-Bouchette built there a factory of Pulp paper. The site is ideal, because energy necessary to the actuation of the machines can be produced by the two marvellous falls of 72 and 35 meters of the Ouiatchouan river.

In 1904, with the death of Mr Jalbert, the company is bought by Americans then, in 1909 it is repurchased by the company of pulp of Chicoutimi. The Spanish influenza makes devastations among its small population.

In 1927, the Quebec Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd , which has had the factory for only one year, ceases any activity because of the decrease in the mechanical demand of not transformed paste.

The abandoned site is partially restored since the years 1970 and aims to report the lifestyle of the the Twenties.

The site forms today part of the territory of the municipality of Chambord.

To see

Nowadays, it is a tourist site to be visited with:

Its restaurant in the old mill,
the partially reconstituted pulpery factory, which used the power of the lower falls of the river Ouiatchouan Photo.
Its actors in the various reconstituted buildings,
the visit in the small train in the middle of the suburban zones, the houses have been now ruins some (photo on the left) or, for a few years, restored when they collapse.
Its path of nature accessible by a new and sedentary cable car. On arrival of the cable car, one sees the upstream of the Ouiatchouan river, and the falls higher Photo.
the river forms a small canyon, downstream from the factory of pulpery Photo.

Bond external

Official site.
Site on the industrial towns: Valley Jalbert

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