La Tuque

Guilbeault grew up in La Tuque, Quebec, a city of 11,000 where forestry has long helped drive the economy.

The wood drifts into his bailiwick at the town of La Tuque.

From that moment the general of the Commune put himself in communication with Versailles through the mediation of M. Camus and Baron Dathiel de la Tuque, who agreed with him to organise a counter revolution.

You knew perhaps that he was foreman in a shanty above La Tuque, on the Vermilion River.

You see when a young fellow has been working in the woods for six months, with every kind of hardship and no amusement, and gets out to La Tuque or Jonquieres with all the winter's wages in his pocket, pretty often he loses his head; he throws his money about and sometimes takes too much ...