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During that period the
firm also built over 20 major culverts in the municipalities of South-Plantagenet,
Russell, Longueuil, Treadwell, Alfred, Hawkesbury and West-Hawkesbury, Cumberland,
St-Bernardin, Fournier, North-Plantagenet, Clarence and for the United Counties of
Prescott & Russell.
Late 1960's -
construction of J. Henri Séguin Bridge, for the United Counties of Prescott &
Russell, Lemieux, Ontario
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Early 1970's -
construction of the Bélanger Bridge for the United Counties of Prescott & Russell in
Lemieux, Ontario
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In the 1960s, 1970s, and early
1980s, Bertrand had its own division specializing in bridge construction. With our crew
and our concrete, we built more than 35 bridges locally: river bridges on the Rigaud,
North Castor, South Nation and Scotch Rivers; creek bridges on Azatika, Atocas, Beckett's,
Hawkesbury, Fournier, Caledonia and the Golf and Curling Club; a bridge in Dalkeith on the
boundary of Prescott-Russell and Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry and bridges in South-Russell,
Cumberland, Russell, Clarence, Cheney, and Osgoode Fisher; county bridges in St-Isidore,
Lemieux, Rivard, Embrun, Bearbrook, East-Hawkesbury, and South-Plantagenet; and finally
the overpass bridge on Jeanne D'Arc Boulevard in Orléans. |
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| The concrete market kept us very
busy in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. In those years, we had concrete plants in
L'Orignal, St-Isidore and Ottawa. We served the residential market as well as the
commercial and industrial ones. In Eastern Ontario, we handled many projects and supplied
the major industries that chose our region to set up their factories, particularly
companies like Duplate (PPG), I.K.O.Industries in Hawkesbury and Ivaco Rolling Mills in
L'Orignal. Our company supplied the concrete for the construction of the Robert Hartley
Sports Complex and the existing General Hospital in Hawkesbury. |
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One of our Concrete
Mixers in 1988
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supplied for the Recreation Center in St-Isidore, the Rigaud overpass on Highway 40,
Plantagenet High School, Carillon Park construction, the Hawkesbury Center Mall and the
water tank in L'Orignal. All the overpasses on Highway 417, from the Quebec border to the
junction of Highway 417 and the Queensway in Ottawa, were made with our concrete. In the
1960s and 1970s, we supplied the market of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.
In 1967, we provided concrete for Leonard Bridge in Ottawa and 65,000 cubic yards of
concrete to the Campeau Corporation for the construction of the Place de Ville Complex
which consists of three units. Two office towers with an underground shopping center and
the Skyline Hotel, which rises twenty-five stories above downtown Ottawa, provide an
exceptional view of Parliament Hill, the Ottawa Valley and the Gatineau Hills.
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| Our construction
division has worked on more than 100 km for Hydro Quebec. During the 1960s and 1980s, we
have used our stone and equipment to build a retaining stone wall to stabilize the banks
of the Ottawa River between Carillon, Quebec and Orléans in Ontario. By the end of the 1970s, with our Ottawa
division, which consisted of a Quarry and a Concrete Plant, Bertrand Construction had
approximately 230 employees working for the company. |
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1998 - Road
construction of a Culvert; Old Hwy 17 between Wendover and Clarence Point, Ontario.
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Supplying our concrete to Place de Ville
Complex in 1967 in downtown Ottawa, Ontario
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Bertrand Construction was an
important contractor in road building and municipal infrastructure projects in the 1970s,
1980s and 1990s. More specifically, we were very active as sewer, water main and roads
contractor in municipalities such as Hawkesbury, Alfred, Embrun, Casselman, L'Orignal,
Clarence, Wendover, Rockland and Orléans. |
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