The test of time: Canada’s only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
Canada's only watchmaking school, the École nationale d’horlogerie, continues to operate in Trois-Rivières after 80 years. The school focuses on teaching precision skills and patience to students, preparing them for professional careers in the watchmaking and jewelry industries.
Why it matters
It highlights the preservation of a highly specialized, traditional craft in an era of mass production and digital technology.
For one thing, the École national d’horlogerie is located on the third floor of an elementary school in Trois-Rivières – a city of about 140,000 people, halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.
The article is a human-interest feature story with no political or ideological agenda.
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