Michel Fragasso | |
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| Born | 1888 |
| Died | 1954 |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
Michel Fragasso (1888–1954), originally from Cerignola, in the province of Foggia in Italy was a Quebec engineer who participated in the design and production of several public infrastructures in Quebec, Canada. He had married Clara Taché, daughter of the architect Eugène-Étienne Taché who is the author of the plans of the Parliament of Quebec, the Armory of Quebec as well as the motto of the Quebec: " I remember". [1]
Biography
At the end of his engineering studies in Liège, Michel Fragasso immigrated to Quebec in 1912 to pursue a career as an engineer. In addition to having participated in the construction of the Quebec bridge around 1913, this engineer erected several dams, in particular those of the Jacques-Cartier lakes, in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, [2] and of the Sautauriski Lake, located in Jacques-Cartier National Park. [3]
The toponym "Lac Fragasso" was formalized on October 19, 1990, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec [4] referring to the work of life of Michel Fragasso.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Archives des Michel Fragasso (1888-1954) -" (in French).
- ^ "TNO Lac-Jacques-Cartier – Voyage à travers le Québec" (in French). grandquebec.com.
- ^ Source: Names and places of Quebec, work of the Commission de toponymie published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
- ^ "Commission de toponymie du Québec - Lac Fragasso - accessed January 19, 2020". Archived from the original on September 12, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
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Michel Fragasso | |
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| Born | 1888 |
| Died | 1954 |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
Michel Fragasso (1888–1954), originally from Cerignola, in the province of Foggia in Italy was a Quebec engineer who participated in the design and production of several public infrastructures in Quebec, Canada. He had married Clara Taché, daughter of the architect Eugène-Étienne Taché who is the author of the plans of the Parliament of Quebec, the Armory of Quebec as well as the motto of the Quebec: " I remember". [1]
Biography
At the end of his engineering studies in Liège, Michel Fragasso immigrated to Quebec in 1912 to pursue a career as an engineer. In addition to having participated in the construction of the Quebec bridge around 1913, this engineer erected several dams, in particular those of the Jacques-Cartier lakes, in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, [2] and of the Sautauriski Lake, located in Jacques-Cartier National Park. [3]
The toponym "Lac Fragasso" was formalized on October 19, 1990, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec [4] referring to the work of life of Michel Fragasso.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Archives des Michel Fragasso (1888-1954) -" (in French).
- ^ "TNO Lac-Jacques-Cartier – Voyage à travers le Québec" (in French). grandquebec.com.
- ^ Source: Names and places of Quebec, work of the Commission de toponymie published in 1994 and 1996 in the form of a printed illustrated dictionary, and under that of a CD-ROM produced by the company Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this dictionary.
- ^ "Commission de toponymie du Québec - Lac Fragasso - accessed January 19, 2020". Archived from the original on September 12, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
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