Laurentide Pulp Company Store, Proposal(-)
Grand-Mère, QC, Canada
Commercial, Retail store [basement, 3 floors]; brick; composite

Client: Laurentide Pulp Company
Architect: E. Maxwell

Description: This unbuilt proposal for a company store is one of many projects designed by E. Maxwell or E. & W.S. Maxwell for the Laurentide Pulp Company, among others a house for Russell Alger (251) later altered for George Chahoon (323). They also designed cottages (481), a boarding house and a house for the Chief Manager. There is also another proposal for a two-story brick store (126). This store would have been brick-faced, three stories tall with a flat roof and wide show windows at the ground floor. Plans called for a general/grocery store on the main level, offices above and storage in the basement. Although company stores were commonplace in the United States company towns, they were a rarity in Quebec where corporations focussed on workers and managers housing. This store, unlike some housing by the Maxwells that still exists in Grand-Mère, was never built. During the 1920’s, the Laurentide Paper Co. was merged with its then immediate competition, the Belgo of Shawinigan Falls, to create the Consolidated Paper Co., known to locals as the ''Consol''. The paper plant is still in operation but the town is no longer a company town.

Holdings: Retail store (basement, 3 floors); brick; composite
6 Drawings: 6 ink on linen
6 Development drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections, structure