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Eugne Prvost was a French Canadian carpenter who initially specialized in producing church pews and school furniture. After receiving a commission in 1924 to fabricate and install a wooden bus shell on a new chassis, his business gradually evolved to one that emphasized the production of coach buses and motor homes. Les Ateliers Prvost was acquired in 1957 and renamed Prvost Car. Eugne Prvost had a lasting impact on the village of his birth the company he founded is a leader in the industry and remains headquartered in SainteClaire.

Joseph Eugne Prvost, son of Joseph Prvost and Obline Couture, was born onNovember 1898 in SainteClaire, a village in Bellechasse, ChaudireAppalaches, Quebec, Canada, formerly in the historic county of Dorchester, about thirty miles south of Quebec City. As his older brothers had emigrated to the United States, settling in Vermont, it was left to Eugne and his younger brother Alphonse to assist their father in finishing the interior of the family home in Sainte Claire. After he left school, he worked as a carpenter, building houses and barns. Prvost purchased a motorcycle in 1918 and developed a reputation as a skilled mechanic. Before his fathers death in 1921, Eugne Prvost built a side car and attached it to his motorcycle, so that he could transport the elder Prvost to visit those sons residing in Vermont. That side car was to become his first machine roulante. Prvost married Clarisse Leblond, daughter of Alfred Leblond and Lda Fauchon, onMay 1922 at the parish church. Upon h

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