Val Jalbert Historical Village - Village historique de Val Jalbert, Chambord Quebec, Canada

Val-Jalbert Historical Village - Village historique de Val-Jalbert, Chambord, Quebec, Canada

Val-Jalbert is a former village in Quebec, Canada, but now a ghost town. Its territory, which today is part of the municipality of Chambord, in Lac-Saint-Jean, was transformed into a tourist attraction in the 1960s. The village was classified as a historic site on August 8, 1996, by the Quebec Tourist Office.

It was founded in 1901 when Damase Jalbert, originally from Lac-Bouchette, built a pulp mill there. In addition to bankruptcy, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 wreaked havoc among its small population.
(The Spanish flu, also called "influenza pandemic of the year 1918", is a pandemic of influenza A (H1N1), due to a particularly virulent and contagious strain that spread from March 1918 to July 1921)