Montmorency Falls

This guide to Montmorency Falls in Quebec City traces the century when the roar of the water was drowned out by a cotton mill built at its foot in 1889 by businessman Charles Ross Whitehead, later merged into the Montmorency Cotton Mills. You'll hear about the thousands of workers, many of them women, who spun and wove through shifts timed to a river that never stopped, and about a labor dispute caught on film outside these gates around 1970. Listen from the railing and picture the machinery that once matched the falls for noise.