st henri des tanneries
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A friends research paper on a tour of St Henri Montreal Canada. One year after she did it the tannery was found by construction workers right where she pinpointed it to be.TRANSCRIPT
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History/Archeo-Walk
St-HENRI-DES-TANNERIES
Changing Spaces
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Introduction
This tour will visit the buildings and spaces of
the present day town of St-Henri but images
of the past will creep in along the way.
Walking through the town it will be easy to
absorb what life was like to live here. St-
Henri often gets viewed as a rough poor
neighbourhood but it perhaps might be
viewed with a rich history.
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Starting point of History/Archeo-
Tour
Meeting point is at the Lionel Groulx Metro
On the corner of St-Jacques and Atwater
Continue west on St-Jacques until you reach
Rosa-de-Lima
This will be our first stop
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C&W Williams Manufacturing
Company (first stop)
Occupied by Garda
Security on Rosa-de-
Lima and St-Jacques
Northwest corner
where we are standing
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http://www2.bnquebec.ca/massic/MW3904.htm
Couples walking on Rosa-de-Lima where we are standing
with the Grand Trunk Running along in front of them
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C&W Williams Manufacturing
Co. Produced sewing machines and was one of many
factories which opened up during the industrial
period and branching off from the Lachine Canal
Established in 1863 on St-James Street
It is now used for the offices of Garda Security
and owned by Imperial Tobacco
The 100 year + building has maintained its
outward appearance
The Grand Trunk Railroad has long gone but there
are traces of its past in St-Henri.
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House on Rose-de-Lima.
1890 Historical Society of Saint-Henri
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Rosa-de-Lima House
Off St-Jacques turn left onto Rosa-de-Lima on your right there are townhouses
There are no traces of the Rosa-de-Lima house however there are townhouses on your right which have replaced it. Families lived in close proximity to the factories in St-Henri.
Just on your left coming up is the newly renovated Candy factory transformed into McGill student residences Pavillon Solin Hall
Across from here turn left onto the bicycle path and continue along here
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The Grand Trunk Railway is replaced by a bicycle
Footpath
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THE GRAND TRUNK
RAILWAY Formed in 1853 from an amalgamation of railway
lines which ran through St-Henri.
(www.collectionscanada.qc.ca) There is also a
park named Premiere Chemin-de-fer off of Notre
Dame Street.
Old railway is now a path being walked as part of
the tour leading to CLSC (Notre-Dame Street and
Workman) The spot where the St-Henri Station
stood.
A two lane train tunnel ran under Notre Dame
Street andstill remain archaeological remains of
the Grand Trunk Railway.
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Grant Trunk Railway tunnel under Notre Dame
Street
Train Station
Would have been
To the right of
This photo.
Photo by MC
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Approach Notre Dame Street and head east
until rue St-Augustin and turn right heading
south towards the Lachine Canal
One of the samll houses
on St-Agustin which is
approximately 120
years old. (source: the
owner was outside and
mentioned that his and
this one are the same
age)
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Another small Quebecois home:
This particular house
was owned by a priest
in the late 19th century.
Just a two minute walk
from the canal and the
Moseley Ricker
Tannery.Which is now
a park
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Continuing down to the Canal where the Moseley
&Ricker Tannery is but what is it now
Just an open space but where the town begins to reveal its start and this park pays homage to those in the tannery trade which first established the small village which was called St-Henri-des-Tanneries.
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E. Frank Moseley and Company Tannery (St-Henri)
St-Ambroise Street and St-Augustin
Canada, Archival reference no. R6990-873-X-E.
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A little bit of background on the
tanneries..
They eventually settle in St-Henri-
des-Tanneries
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TANNERIES (ST. JACQUES + UNIVERSITCanada
Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources / Library and Archives Canada / PA-020599
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Rue St-Jacques/Rue University
Tannery
Established in the17th century at the trading post
where the rivers St-Martin and St-Pierre crossed
Raw hides of cows, bulls etc brought to trading
post and then to tanneries to make leather goods
(ie: shoes and saddles)
Smells became too much for the village and moved
outside the walls of Ville Marie to St-Henri-des-
Tanneries
Source: rivieresperdu.radio-canada.ca
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Continue walking west along St-
Ambroise street observing all of the
several factories which lined the
road and bordered St-Henri to the
south. When reaching rue
Courcelles, make a right and
continue until you get to the corner
of Notre Dame and Courcelles.
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Caserne numro 24/Fire Station #24
1901/2013
Corner of Notre Dame and Courcelles(now a public library)
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Continue on Notre Dame and
cross over the railroad tracks just
ahead of Acorn Street.This is the approximate area where
the Rolland Tanneries were
established
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St-Jacques between Courcelles and St-Remi.1949 (before the Turcot Interchange)
Source: Montreal Neighborhoods Website
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Satelite image of samea area today
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Lenoir dite Rolland Gabriel Rolland became a master tanner in 1713
beginning his trade at Ville Marie
The Ville Marie tanneries moved westward to where the St-Pierre River meets the Glen Creek and where Gabriel Rolland operated several tanneries in the village (mid-1700s)
This was an ideal area as historically aboriginals and Les Coureurs de Bois crossed through this area to bypass rapids. This village became known as St-Henri-des-Tanneries
(Heritage Montreal website)
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The First Tanners
McCord Museum, MP-0000.1671.6.
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THE ROLLAND FAMILY TANNERS
Photograph, Tanneries Village, St. Henry, near Montreal, QC,
1859, Alexander Henderson, Silver salts on paper mounted on paper
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Rolland Tanners
These houses dated in the middle of the 19th
century made up the Village of Tanners at the
foot of the Glen. The Glen was the point where
the St-Jacques cliffs meet at the Glen (Glen
Road) joining St-Henri to Westmount. Made up
of approximately 11 houses these Tanners began
the St-Henri Town that exists today.
(Heritage Montreal)
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www.messagerverdun.com
*Approximate
Area of Villages des
Tanneries
Otter Lake (now the old Turcot Yards)
-meets the St-Pierre River
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Picture from site: RadioCanada.ca (Lost Rivers)
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Old map of Les Rolland
Tanneries
Situated on the previous map where the St-
Pierre River and the Moulin is situated
Where you are standing now was the village
of Les Rolland Tanneries
This development led to the foundation of
St-Henri des Tanneries.
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This unfinished picture represents a view ofMontreal & the Tanneries from the "LaChine
Road" - dated 1839from National Archives of Canada
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Upper Lachine Road/Les Falaise
St-Jacques
The previous slide depicts what the Village
of St-Henri-des-Tanneries looked like in the
early 1800s
The Falaise are the cliffs that are seen which
now is St-Jacques Road leading to Upper-
Lachine Road.
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Our second last stop will take us
north on Courcelles/Glen Rd The view from the bank,
where this photo was taken will give you an idea of where the creek would have stream down to where the tanners village was. This water supply was key to the establishment of the Tannery Village.The St-Jacques Cliffs are off to the right of this photo.
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Climbing back down the bank,
back through the Glen Tunnel
back into St-Henri-des-Tanneries
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The Final Stop.
There is a sewer in the middle of the street just in front of the arch (of the tunnel) Where you can still hear the rushing waters of the Glen and this is where it all began for St-Henri des-Tanneries.