Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie)
1832 - The Village of Industry,

about 3 m. from the church and village of St. Paul, is prettily seated on the right bank of the R. L'Assomption and near a waterfall, many feet in height, the noise of which is heard at a considerable distance. Only a few years ago the site of this v., before the mills were built, was covered with forest: there is now much land in cultivation, and 40 houses have been built, besides two fine mansions inhabited by Messrs. Joliette and Leodle, who are the joint proprietors with their brother-in-law, M. de Lanaudiere, the seignior of Lavaltrie. It is to the spirit of enterprise evinced by these gentlemen that all the improvements in this place must be attributed; the most curious and the most worthy of the traveller's attention is the mill, which was begun by the proprietors June 1, 1823: it is solidly built with stone, three stories high, 120 ft. long and 45 ft. wide; it contains 3 sets of stones for grinding wheat, besides others for grinding barley; also conveniences for carding, fulling and sawing, and machinery for raising timber into the mill. The river L'Assomption supplies the mill with water, and, near the mill-head, it is of immense depth; and at the distance of a few feet is a chain of pebbles, scarcely covered with water, forming the fall of the mill which is thereby most advantageously situated: the mill-dam is remarkable for its size, construction and solidity.

A Topographical Dictionary of The Province of Lower Canada by Joseph Bouchette, Esq., London, 1832

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