TThe Ruisseau-Michel mill was built between 1830 and 1840 by Louis Gagnon. It served the village of Baie-Saint-Paul. The ground floor was used for the milling while the first floor housed the miller and his family. Before 1850, André Simard and his wife Marceline Gagnon owned the mill. It was subsequently purchased by navigator Benjamin Savard in 1850. The mill was active until the early 1980s and the last miller in office was Jean-Marie Boivin. At the end of the 1990s, the site was purchased. The new owners undertake the “rescue” of the mill and make it accessible to the public. The various cultural and educational activities of the mill, however, ended in 2003. On the site would be a butcher’s shop, a grain shed, a woolen drum, tobacco dryers, a barn and the foundations of a sawmill..
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