Bouquinerie The Jacques-Cartier, the penultimate day of its existence, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Everything is in place for the killing. Photo Russel Bouchard. 
What remains of the Bouquinerie Jacques-Cartier, the first day of his absence, 10 March 2010. Photo Russel Bouchard Saguenay, the city parking lots and buildings in cardboard, do not miss any! This week, March 10, 2010, ranked among the historic buildings to be demolished, I must take time to mourn the loss of "Spinning the Saguenay," another piece of our urban heritage eradicated the panorama to its foundations through the total ineffectiveness in preserving heritage, our city council and our hilarious Planning Committee. If I were to disappear, the same week, all the historical buildings subjected to ad patres peak demolition since 1960, Chicoutimi look like Dresden after the bombing of February 1945.
course, purists who have been jaded eighteenth of the assets of the old Europe, might argue that a building constructed in 1919 did nothing to stimulate emotion. Matter of perspective shall we say. When we saw, like me, from one after another, all buildings that are meaningful and we have seen grow and when seen from brick by brick, which has built our imagination, there is enough food regret and feel frankly embarrassed deal with tourists who have made the detour to greet the natives of the city in the mythical name, Chicoutimi, also disappeared from the radar of history under the guidance of directors and inculturated ignorant.
The loss is even greater, some of this old factory housed since 1992, the Bouquinerie Jacques-Cartier, a jewel in the matter which had no equivalent in Quebec. This trade devoted to ancient books, was a real gold mine for the bookworm. He had been mounted by the hands of masters couple Richard and Marlene Lamontagne, lovers of old and rare books and heritage of all kinds. Saturday and Sunday last, not having had the support of the city, owners, heart broken, had to declare packages after a portion of the roof has collapsed under the weight of snow, and carry out a liquidation sale to $ 1 a pound, so as not to lose everything in the rubble.
For lovers of early urban history and the memory can still talk to those of the soul, I take the time to clarify that the "Spinning Saguenay, located at 362 rue Savard Chicoutimi, Founded in 1919 by entrepreneur and engineer Pitre Riverin Edward Lavoie. It produces clothing and blankets for the local market and Montreal. Comprising a dozen looms and forty employees, the factory closed its doors in 1953 due to competition. The building was then sold to the company "The Moving Joron, who occupied it until 1991, and finally passed into the hands of the couple Lamontagne who moved his bookstore.
With the disappearance of this other witness of our industrial past, is an entire history of Chicoutimi and area disappears. No more than the cathedral, city hall, a church or two every stone carvings, and some houses in their seventies not to lose his way when it runs through the heart of the city! Those who want to take pictures, make haste, at the rate things are going it will be too late in fifteen years ...
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The first customers of the liquidation sale.
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