Marie-Louise-Levasseur Street, located in Bécancour in the Centre-du-Québec region, lies in an area where streets are named in honor of local industrial figures. It commemorates Marie-Louise Levasseur (1811–1892), a prominent businesswoman originally from Trois-Rivières who later seMled in Bécancour. In the 19th century, she owned a flour mill, two sawmills, as well as a toll bridge, and employed approximately 150 workers in the 1860s

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