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Bridge at L'Abord-à-Plouffe, 1859 L'Abord-à-Plouffe is a former Quebec village. TheApril 4, 1961, the village was merged with the towns of Saint-Martin and Renaud to form the town of Chomedey. TheAugust 6, 1965, the town of Chomedey was merged with the thirteen other towns of Île Jésus to form the town of Laval.

The name L'Abord-à-Plouffe comes from the family name of François Plouffe who, in 1801, operated a barge on board which it was possible to link Île Jésus to Île de Montréal. In 1834, Pascal Persillier dit Lachapelle had a covered bridge built there. It serves as an access route to the north shore, in particular for the horse -drawn omnibus which connects Montreal to Saint-Eustache.

The place was used by log drivers who stopped there before making their rafts of logs cross the Gros-Sault rapids. This transfer will be in effect until 1880 when the railroad will make this risky operation unnecessary.

L'Abord-à-Plouffe now designates a residential sector 1.

L'Abord-à-Plouffe was located south of the current Notre-Dame Boulevard, west of the Bellerive residential complex on Lévesque Boulevard West as well as east of Havre-des-îles north of the Rivière des Prairies 2

Bibliography Michèle Benoît and Roger Gratton, Pignon sur rue, the districts of Montreal, Montreal, Montreal, Éditions Guérin,1991, 395 p. ( ISBN  2-7601-2494-0 ) , p.  280. References Toponymy: L'Abord-à-Plouffe [ archive ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WURY1p7BA [ archive ] and L'Abord-à-Plouffe