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Bridge at L'Abord-à-Plouffe, 1859 L'Abord-à-Plouffe is a former Quebec village. TheApril 4, 1961, the village was merged with the towns of Saint-Martin and Renaud to form the town of Chomedey . TheAugust 6, 1965, the town of Chomedey was merged with the thirteen other towns of Île Jésus to form the town of Laval .

The name L'Abord-à-Plouffe comes from the family name of François Plouffe who, in 1801, operated a barge on board which it was possible to link Île Jésus to Île de Montréal . In 1834, Pascal Persillier dit Lachapelle had a covered bridge built there. It serves as an access route to the north shore, in particular for the horse -drawn omnibus which connects Montreal to Saint-Eustache .

The place was used by log drivers who stopped there before making their rafts of logs cross the Gros-Sault rapids . This transfer will be in effect until 1880 when the railroad will make this risky operation unnecessary.

L'Abord-à-Plouffe now designates a residential sector 1 .

L'Abord-à-Plouffe was located south of the current Notre-Dame Boulevard, west of the Bellerive residential complex on Lévesque Boulevard West as well as east of Havre-des-îles north of the Rivière des Prairies 2

Bibliography Michèle Benoît and Roger Gratton, Pignon sur rue, the districts of Montreal, Montreal , Montreal, Éditions Guérin,1991, 395 p. ( ISBN 2-7601-2494-0 ) , p. 280. References Toponymy: L'Abord-à-Plouffe [ archive ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WURY1p7BA [ archive ] and L'Abord-à-Plouffe