Walking by the waterfall
Shortly after the seigniory was founded in 1637, Robert Giffard oversaw the construction of a mill near a high waterfall on the Beauport River. Various mills in the area were used for artisanal and industrial production, whether for grinding wheat, making nails or extracting linseed oil.
Société d’art et d’histoire de Beauport
Document in the public domain (free of copyright) -AVQ Collection (Beauport borough) - Date: 1940