Doctor Louis Philippe Legendre, Siméon Auger, foreman, milkman Norbert Garneau, general merchant Joseph Henri Larouche and industrialist Joseph Delphis Houde. Their letters patent at that time mentioned a wide variety of activities; construct, acquire, operate, sell or lease several factories for manufacture of mill machinery, carpentry machinery, agricultural machines and instruments, electrical machines and appliances, pulp mill machinery, elevator machinery, water, steam, gas, air and oil operated machinery, appliances, aircraft equipment and tools of all sort. The letters patent mentioned without a doubt the future activities of the plant. With over 90 years of existence, Bibby-Ste-Croix Foundry is still going strong. .