Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)
For decades, Lauzon's economy was based on the Davie shipyard, whose construction began in 1880 with the digging of a dry dock (Lorne dry dock).

Mr. George Taylor Davie bought in 1879 the land of Anse aux Sauvages (a place also known as Indian Cove West) which had belonged to Duncan Patton, but after his death, his widow decided to get rid of it. Then, a team of 225 men excavated the site of the future dry dock and the first stone of the site was laid by the Governor General of Canada, the Marquis de Lorne, on June 17, 1880. The site will be put into operation in 1882 and the construction will be completed in 1886. The amount of inversions to build the yard is estimated at $90,000 (a huge sum for the time) The drydock will be named Lorne Dock, in honor of the Marquess of Lorne, son-in-law of Queen Victoria . This drydock will be managed by Georges Taylor Davie and the last decades of the 19th century mark the expansion of the Davie shipyard in Lauzon. Indeed, Mr. Davie acquired the second half of the land from Duncan Patton in 1893 and thus formed the "Big Davie" or George Davie & Sons, a very well-known company which would join forces with Vickers, Sons & Maxim in 1914. , established in Montreal in 1911.

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