Engineering
Forges du Saint-Maurice National Historic Site
Engineering
In 1736, the French ironmasters introduced a technology into Canada which had been tried and tested for more than 200 years, and which had been widely adopted in Europe. It was the indirect ore reduction process, which first produced cast iron, followed by bar iron. This two-phase technology required the skills of founders and moulders at the blast furnace as well as a number of brawny forgemen in the forges.
- The iron resources of New France
- Francheville's experiment
- Vézin builds the forges
- The forges and military production
- The indirect ore reduction process
- An expanding colony
- Mathew Bell reigns over the forges
- The Industrial Era
- The McDougalls make over the forges
- An abandoned industrial village
- The old forges
- The forges return to life
- The forges today
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