Work

In this great movement of business of this time, great work of town planning creates new transportation communication channels bordered soon of buildings. Old increased paths, rectified or arranged of all parts. Most famous of these new ways will be the imperial street, future street of the Republic. The first studies were made in 1859, and on August 15, 1864, five years after only, this beautiful artery was inaugurated.

This considerable perforated of one kilometer which notches by an immense trench separates the old city (more than one hundred meters) and it from the Large Carmelite friars, is a gigantic building site. With an extraordinary speed, in less than two years, a thousand of houses, an about sixty streets are destroyed (hundreds of moved families) of the bottom of Canebière to the boulevard of the Ladies, then in Joliette even, the opening is carried out (1862-1864).