The old-fashioned ways of Montreal fine-paper mill La Papeterie Saint-Armand GlobeArts
This is the Papeterie’s 40th year of operation, under founder David Carruthers, left, and his wife, Denise Lapointe, right.The Lachine Canal was the industrial spine of Montreal during the first half of the 20th century, when it was lined with factories and filled with cargo boats. A recent wave of gentrification has transformed the canal’s disused buildings into offices, studios and condos, but there’s still at least one mill thriving on industrial-age methods and machinery.
“I wanted to follow in my father’s and grandfather’s footsteps,” Carruthers says. His grandfather opened a paper mill in 1913 in St. Catharines, Ont., where his father and uncles all worked . But they were into modern ways and mass production, while he saw potential in a low-volume, fine-quality operation.
“I knew enough people in the industry to help out with advice,” he said, and he was acquainted with artists in Montreal who could tell him what paper they needed for watercolour, acrylic, etching or pastel. As he learned the craft, he sought out cast-off equipment and off-quality pulp from other mills, especially the Domtar mill at Beauharnois, Que., which made the paper for Canada’s money.
“I’ve got it just the way I want it,” Carruthers says of his current operation, but there are big challenges ahead. He has just four suppliers of cotton rag in Montreal, and no longer gets off-quality bales from Domtar, which closed its Beauharnois plant in 2004; the government switched to plastic currency in 2011.
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