Devil's mountain facts - Mont-Laurier -

Devil's Mountain

Devil's Mountain got its name from the Amerindian. One day, people were horseback ridding to the toward the summit. Suddently an earthquake created a fault that opened up and "the Mountain swallowed them forever" and shut back the fault. This story was almost forgotten until planes flew over the Mountain. Compas lost the north and other instruments went ballistic. One of these planes actually crashed into the Mountain, its carcasse is still there today.
Devil's mountain has a magnetic north that makes the planes compas point in the wrong direction. It covers 202 ha and its actual name is Mount Sir Wilfrid, from Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911) and the first francophone prime minister.

The relais on the mountain is at 708 meter of altitude. The second pike is the towers, at 783 metres. view of Mont-Laurier

Lake Baskatong Reservoir Baskatong is 329 square km, 2500 km around and water goes as deep as 96 meters. This reservoir wasactually created by the overflow of the Gatineau River that runs trough it. There used to be people on this land not long ago. A few year back, we still could see the steeple of the churc stick out of the water.
The level is raised in the spring and lowered 15 meters before the winter by the regulators at barrage Mercier in memorie of Honoré Mercier, son (1875-1937). Several camping and oufitters surround this "inland sea", and over 350 000 new fish are breaded in the reservoir each year.
See also bio of Honoré Mercier father, Honoré Mercier son and Lomer Gouin (Réservoir Gouin).

Rapide de l'Orignal Installed at 244 meter of altitude, at the same latitude as Quebec city, Mont-Laurier enjoys an annual average of 1 976 hours of sun light while the the highest total of the province is of 2 100 hours. The old Mont-Laurier founded on "La Rivière du Lièvre" (wich is 400km long), used to be called Rapide de l'Orignal (Moose rapids). The town got its name according to the story that a moose that was chassed by a wolf jumped all the way across the river over the rapids.
Mont-Laurier is the end of the line for Le p'tit Train du Nord that made its last trip November 8, 1981... Now its used in summer by bicycle and roller blades and in the winter by snowmobiles. It was a passenger train that made easy to bring people to "the north" that Le curé Labelle's dream of colonization. Draveur

Electrical facility In the heart of the city, this facility was originally constructed in 1937, enlarged in 1951 and abandoned several years prior to its acquisition by Hydromega in 1987.
Drainage basin : 5 500 km2 Gross head : 6,7 m Rated flow : 55 m3/s 2 Kaplan turbines of 1 100 kW each 1 Francis turbine of 700 kW Capacity : 2 900 kW Annual production : 20 000 000 kWh Le Curé Labelle

Front wall of the previous church The Cathedrale built in 1910 had a steeple of 20 meters high. It was burn down by a pyromaniac in 1982. The front wall is still there as a tribute to this wonderfull jewel we once had.
The Alix house. Built by Solime Alix in 1890 as been used as a general store and a post office trough out the years before it was declared historic monument in 1984. first house built

Devil stories

	Installed at 244 meter of altitude, at the same latitude as Quebec city, Mont-Laurier enjoys an annual average of 1 976 hours of sun light while the the highest total of the province is of 2 100 hours. The old Mont-Laurier founded on "La Rivière du Lièvre" (wich is 400km long), used to be called Rapide de l'Orignal (Moose rapids). The town got its name according to the story that a moose that was chassed by a wolf jumped all the way across the river over the rapids. Mont-Laurier is the end of the line for Le p'tit Train du Nord that made its last trip November 8, 1981... Now its used in summer by bicycle and roller blades and in the winter by snowmobiles. It was a passenger train that made easy to bring people to "the north" that Le curé Labelle's dream of colonization.
	In the heart of the city, this facility was originally constructed in 1937, enlarged in 1951 and abandoned several years prior to its acquisition by Hydromega in 1987. Drainage basin : 5 500 km2 Gross head : 6,7 m Rated flow : 55 m3/s 2 Kaplan turbines of 1 100 kW each 1 Francis turbine of 700 kW Capacity : 2 900 kW Annual production : 20 000 000 kWh
	The Cathedrale built in 1910 had a steeple of 20 meters high. It was burn down by a pyromaniac in 1982. The front wall is still there as a tribute to this wonderfull jewel we once had. The Alix house. Built by Solime Alix in 1890 as been used as a general store and a post office trough out the years before it was declared historic monument in 1984.