Louis Cyr, 84, of South Windsor, formerly of Newington, passed from this life on Saturday (Nov. 1, 2003). Louis was born on Nov. 17, 1918 in St. Hilaire, NB, Canada and moved to Connecticut in 195O.

Cyprien-Noé Cyr performed his first feat of strength when he was only eight, shouldering a lost calf and carrying it home. The 19th-century Canadian farmboy got a job as a lumberjack after carrying ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 29, 2014) - The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General announced today that two Canadian feature films, The Grand Seduction and Louis Cyr: l'homme le plus ...

The cinematic storytelling of Louis Cyr, the strongman of St-Henri, was the big winner at last night’s Jutra Awards in Montreal. Louis Cyr: l’homme le plus fort du monde, directed by Daniel Roby, ...

The Quebecker may have died in 1912 but he is still known as the World's Strongest Man Please enable JavaScript to view this content.

The town of St-Jean-de-Matha, Que. is enjoying a boom in tourism thanks to success of Louis Cyr, the film based on the French-Canadian’s life and legendary strength. The film pulled in more than ...

Long before the likes of strongmen Brian Shaw and the Stoltman brothers, there were figures like Donald Dinnie and Arthur Saxon, who were lifting extraordinarily large weights in the first strongman ...

D ebon (Four Pictures by Emily Carr) again employs the graphic-novel format, this time in a robust recounting of famed Canadian circus strongman, Louis Cyr. The story begins toward the end of the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PORTLAND – Louis Edward Cyr, 80, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, at ...

The town of St-Jean-de-Matha, Que. is enjoying a boom in tourism thanks to success of Louis Cyr, the film based on the French-Canadian’s life and legendary strength. The film pulled in more than ...

The boom in graphic novels for the young is easily understood. Ever since Art Spiegelman’s stunning Maus, published in 1986, expanded the genre to include weighty themes, artists have realized the ...