Fort
Coulonge History |
| 1694-5 |
Nicholas
d’Ailleboust, Sieur de Madeleine and Coulonge spends
winter at mouth of Coulonge River >
more |
| 1760 |
Northwest Company
established trading post |
| 1821 |
Trading post
becomes property of Hudson’s Bay Company |
| 1840 |
George Bryson
builds the 915m slide at Coulonge Chutes |
| 1843 |
George Bryson
(1813-1900) builds first sawmill |
| 1844 |
HBC sells 655
acre trading post |
| 1854 |
George Bryson
builds the Bryson House on Hy 148 |
| 1873 |
First chapel built
(destroyed by fire) |
| 1877 |
George Bryson,
Jr. replaces his father in Quebec Legislative Assembly |
| 1882 |
John Bryson becomes
the first federal Member of Parliament |
| 1884 |
First brick
church built |
| 1886 |
Pontiac Pacific
Junction (PPJ) railway line reaches Coulonge |
| 1889 |
FortCoulonge
becomes a municipality. John Bryson becomes mayor. |
| 1898 |
Agustus Brown
builds the red covered bridge, Pont Marchand |
| 1890 |
First Presbyterian
church built |
| 1959 |
PPJ discontinues
service to the Pontiac |
| 1984 |
PPJ closes |
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