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Old buildings

1005, Principale street
916-920, Principale street
910, Principale street
795, Principale street
769, Principale street
757, Principale street
603, Principale street
401, Principale street

351, Principale street
314, Principale street
300, Principale street
235, Principale street
231, Principale street
225, Principale street
203-205, Principale street
117, Principale street

100, Sud street
215, Sud street
108, William street
109, William street
114, William street
245, Albert street
209, Ste-Thérèse street

769, Main Street

Year of construction:
Around 1875

Type of architecture:
Queen Anne style

Historical elements:
The advocate, F. X. Arthur Giroux first lived in this house. In 1895, he was one the first French Canadians to establish in Sweetsburg (now Cowansville). This gorgeous house was also owned by his son, Louis Arthur Giroux, also a well-known advocate and by his granddaughter, Mrs. Gabrielle Giroux Bertrand who was the Brome-Missisquoi Member of Parliament and the wife of Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Premier of the Province of Quebec from 1968 to 1970. Because of the Giroux family’s strong implication in politics, many public figures such as Maurice Duplessis, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean Charest have visited this house.