Cottages and farms give way to high-rises

Cottages and farms give way to high-rises

Former MNA Serge Ménard recalled Laval’s rural past on its 40th birthday As many as 32 individual municipalities once dotted the countryside of Laval in the decades preceding the formation of the island-wide city in 1965, says former Marc-Aurèle-Fortin MP Serge Ménard. Ménard, who spent his boyhood summers bicycling and swimming at his family’s country home on the Rivière-des-Milles-Îles, recounted some of his memories in view of the City of Lav…