CA-K560Economy & trade

Édouard Lacroix, Beauce industrialist

Édouard Lacroix, 1927. Edouard Lacroix · Philippe Angers · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Édouard Lacroix, a business leader from the Beauce, built an industrial empire in Quebec, the Maritimes and New England, opening up Appalachian forests and helping integrate the lumber and pulp and paper industries of the Saint John River basin. A rare francophone among interwar industrial leaders, he was also an MP from 1925 to 1944.

Scope & context

Lacroix as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Édouard Lacroix National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text