From Indigenous Sacred Site to Industrial Wasteland: Colonialism and Class Struggle in the Chaudière District

Photo:  Timber slide at Chaudière Falls.

This new tour from Peoples’ History Walking Tours traces how an Indigenous sacred site (the Chaudière Falls and surrounding area) was transformed into an industrial zone for lumber mills, pulp and paper and hydro. It looks at the impressive strikes by mill workers and women match workers (called allumettières) resident in the nearby communities of Hull and Lebreton Flats, and includes discussion about the resistance governments faced when destroying those working class neighborhoods and the current Algonquin campaign against the ‘Zibi’ condo project.