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Excerpt from The Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, 1905: The Branch to La Tuque, It Will Hasten by Two Years the Construction of the Grand Pacific Railway and Open Up a Country of Enormous Possibilities
Some idea of the development that must follow at La Tuque as soon as it is reached by the railway, may be formed from a glance of what has been accomplished under similar conditions at grand'mére and Shawi nigan. When a railway reached grand'mere, seven years ago, there was nothing there in the shape of industries with the exception of a small pulp mill, while both that place and Shawinigan were practically without population at all. In fact this is true of Sha winigan up to about five years ago. Now the popu lation of each town is about five thousand people, Grand' Mere having a pulp and paper mill that ranks amongst the largest in the world. At Shawinigan, ten millions of dollars have been expended in the deve lopment of power from the falls and in the establish ment of dependent industries. The Pittsburg Redue tion Company has aluminum works there, and there is also a large carbide factory, besides the extensive mills of the Belgo Pulp and Paper Company and the works of the Shawinigan Power Company.
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