Clarke City Interpretation Center
The great potential of the St. Marguerite River incited the Clarke brothers to found the first industrial city on Québec’s North Shore.
In fact, in 1898, while exploring the area, they found the perfect conditions at the mouth of the St. Marguerite River to operate a pulp mill. A powerful river and a supply of wood plentiful enough to feed a pulp mill to provide paper for their publishing companies in Toronto and New York. Thus began the history of Clarke City, the area’s first industrial town that thrived until 1967.