Birth of a site with big potential (1901-1903)After founding the Compagnie de pulpe Ouiatchouan in 1901, the father of the project, Damase Jalbert, begins the construction of a mill, which is operational a year and a half later. Pulp production begins in 1902. Experience life as it was in the ’20s, in a genuine company town complete with forty or so original period buildings. The convent-school, general store and pulp mill abound in secrets that will be revealed by many colourful characters. You can discover how people used to lived in this ultramodern village where, twenty-five years before the other resident of the province of Quebec, they had the luxury of electricity and running water. Confront the powerful Ouiatchouan Falls, higher than Niagara falls, by stepping out onto the glass platform of our new spectacular lookout, nestled within the heart of the Falls.