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1954
GUSN-169909
Seven miles north of the city of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, are the ruins of Canada's first iron industry. Les Forges de St. Maurice was set up by French colonists, and aided by a generous grant from Louis XV, and took advantage of ore deposits that gave out around 1883. Margaret K. Zieman surveys the history of the mining industry in the great industrial city of Trois Rivieres.
Article ID 358
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1954.045.157.001
Seven miles north of the city of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, are the ruins of Canada's first iron industry. Les Forges de St. Maurice was set up by French colonists, and aided by a generous grant from Louis XV, and took advantage of ore deposits that gave out around 1883. Margaret K. Zieman surveys the history of the mining industry in the great industrial city of Trois Rivieres.
Volume 45, Number 157 (Summer, 1954)
Margaret K. Zieman (Author)
(1954). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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