Le projet Fraserville / The Fraserville Project

In old Rivière-du-Loup, a major urban project took shape within a one-kilometer quadrangle whose planning began 200 years ago. Seeking to take advantage of the town’s stepped geography, the builders laid out the streets according to views of the surrounding landscape, and placed major public monuments on natural promontories to highlight them. The beauty of the site also made it a residential area for the bourgeoisie, who built sumptuous villas there. By 1887, the final layout of the Fraserville neighborhood was visible, along with new development to the south around the railway station and along Lafontaine Street, and a 1928 aerial view showed the exact quadrilateral formed by the project on its natural promontory.

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