August 16 - 20 août
More than a century of cheesemaking The St. Albert Milk Co-Op has been part of the life of the vil- lage for more than a century since Damase Meilleur founded the first cheesemaking operation in the area in 1880.
up with both market demands and provincial quality regulations. The cheese factory earned a repu- tation for quality and during the 1990s at one point sold more than $11.7 million worth of dairy products. The St-Albert Curd Festival debuted in 1994 in tribute to the economic role of the cheese factory in the community. The new century saw for good and bad fortune for the St-Albert Cheese Factory. In 2009 the co-op bought the Mirabel Cheese Factory in the Laurentian region of Québec. Four years later the original cheese factory was destroyed by fire. But out of the ashes, a new St-Albert Cheese Factory arose, bigger and better and still making award-win- ning cheese and curds.
The St-Albert Cheese Factory itself became a reality more than a decade later on Jan. 8, 1894. The co-op went through some ups and downs, at one point being sold to a private interest. It was later bought back by the commu- nity as a co-operative just as World War Two began. By the end of the next decade, the co-op membership numbered 126 and it continued to develop into one of the economic giants of the community, expanding and improving production capacity during the 1960s and 1970s to keep
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