{"id":1351,"date":"2022-11-04T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/?page_id=1351"},"modified":"2023-05-25T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:27:12","slug":"a-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/a-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 propos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nicepage-container\"><div class=\"\" style=\"\" >        <script>\n            (function ($) {\n                var ResponsiveCms = window.ResponsiveCms;\n                if (!ResponsiveCms) {\n                    return;\n                }\n                ResponsiveCms.contentDom = $('script:last').parent();\n                ResponsiveCms.prevMode = \"XL\";\n\n                if (typeof ResponsiveCms.recalcClasses === 'function') {\n                    ResponsiveCms.recalcClasses();\n                }\n            })(jQuery);\n        <\/script>\n        \n    \n    <section class=\"u-align-center u-clearfix u-image u-shading u-section-2\" src=\"\" data-image-width=\"1900\" data-image-height=\"1267\" id=\"sec-33c4\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)), url(&quot;https:\/\/williams.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/woman-fishing-on-fishing-rod-spinning-in-norway-2022-02-08-22-39-26-utc.jpg&quot;);\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-md u-sheet-1\">\n        <h1 class=\"u-align-center-lg u-align-center-md u-align-center-sm u-align-center-xs u-text u-text-white u-title u-text-1\">\u00c0 propos<\/h1>\n        <h6 class=\"u-text u-text-2\">Des produits de qualit\u00e9 depuis 1909<\/h6>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-white u-section-3\" id=\"sec-e46f\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\"><\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-4\" id=\"sec-5d91\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-gutter-10 u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-layout\" style=\"\">\n          <div class=\"u-layout-row\" style=\"\">\n            <div class=\"u-align-left u-container-style u-image u-layout-cell u-left-cell u-size-30 u-size-xs-60 u-image-1\" src=\"\" data-image-width=\"1900\" data-image-height=\"1267\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\" style=\"background-image: url(&quot;https:\/\/williams.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/young-man-fishing-at-pond-and-enjoying-hobby-2021-08-26-17-34-28-utc.jpg&quot;);\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-middle u-container-layout-1\" src=\"\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"u-align-left u-container-style u-layout-cell u-right-cell u-size-30 u-size-xs-60 u-white u-layout-cell-2\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-top u-container-layout-2\">\n                <h2 class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-palette-1-base u-text-1\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\"> Pour la plupart des p\u00eacheurs, le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Wabler de Williams est aussi canadien que la feuille d\u2019\u00e9rable ou le hockey; et cela est presque enti\u00e8rement vrai.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n                <p class=\"u-text u-text-palette-1-base u-text-2\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\"> Con\u00e7u sur un lac proche de Dorset en Ontario, par les fr\u00e8res Williams qui \u00e9taient originaires de Nouvelle \u00c9cosse; sa forme est rest\u00e9e la m\u00eame depuis un si\u00e8cle. Ce qui peut cependant surprendre, c\u2019est le fait que ce \u00ab mythe canadien \u00bbn\u2019\u00e9tait pas fabriqu\u00e9 dans son pays d\u2019origine. La production commerciale a en effet d\u00e9but\u00e9 aux \u00c9tats-Unis.&nbsp;L\u2019histoire commence avec la Ru\u00e9e vers l\u2019or du Klondike en 1896, quand un groupe issu du clan Williams de Goldenville en Nouvelle \u00c9cosse, voyagea vers l\u2019ouest \u00e0 travers tout le pays, \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019or. \u00c0 certains moments, pendant la \u00ab Ru\u00e9e de 98 \u00bb, ils trouv\u00e8rent de bons filons. Plus tard, lorsque leur concession fut \u00e9puis\u00e9e ou vendue, les fils Williams d\u00e9cid\u00e8rent de prendre des chemins s\u00e9par\u00e9s.&nbsp;A.D Williams, pour sa part, se dirigea vers Kansas City, en 1907, o\u00f9 il \u00e9tablit une petite raffinerie d\u2019or. Il commen\u00e7a \u00e0 fournir de l\u2019or pour les plombages aux dentistes locaux.&nbsp; Son fr\u00e8re Malcolm, pour sa part, finit sa route \u00e0 Fort Erie en Ontario, o\u00f9 il d\u00e9veloppa ses propres affaires . En 1912, A.D Williams et sa famille d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e8rent de nouveau. Cette fois-ci, ils quitt\u00e8rent Kansas City pour Buffalo, NY. D\u00e9sormais, seule la Rivi\u00e8re Niagara le s\u00e9parait de son jeune fr\u00e8re, au Canada. Peu de temps apr\u00e8s, A.D remonta la raffinerie d\u2019or Williams \u00e0 Buffalo. <\/p>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-white u-section-5\" id=\"sec-13f3\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\"><\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-palette-1-base u-section-6\" id=\"sec-50d5\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n          <div class=\"u-layout\">\n            <div class=\"u-layout-row\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-left-cell u-size-30 u-layout-cell-1\">\n                <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-top u-container-layout-1\">\n                  <h2 class=\"u-text u-text-white u-text-1\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\"> Malcolm rejoignit son fr\u00e8re dans cette affaire, quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard. La compagnie Williams fut sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans les fournitures dentaires en m\u00e9tal pr\u00e9cieux.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n                  <div class=\"u-border-6 u-border-palette-2-base u-line u-line-horizontal u-line-1\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n              <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-right-cell u-size-30 u-layout-cell-2\">\n                <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-top u-container-layout-2\">\n                  <p class=\"u-text u-text-2\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\">Ils organisaient aussi des s\u00e9jours de p\u00eache au Canada pour leurs clients. Leur destination favorite \u00e9tait le&nbsp; Lac Kawagama, \u00e0 quelques kilom\u00e8tres au nord-est de Dorset, en Ontario. La forme du Wabler de Williams fut cr\u00e9\u00e9e, quelque part entre 1915 et 1918, lors d\u2019une partie de p\u00eache \u00e0 la truite au Lac Kawagama. Des modifications et des exp\u00e9rimentations de finitions furent plus tard mises en \u0153uvre par les deux fr\u00e8res, de retour \u00e0 Buffalo. Vers la fin des ann\u00e9es 1910, le leurre fut perfectionn\u00e9. La production commerciale du Wabler en finition d\u2019or et d\u2019argent v\u00e9ritable, commen\u00e7a v\u00e9ritablement aux alentours de 1920 \u00e0 l\u2019usine de Buffalo.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bien que le Wabler de Williams soit devenu tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t disponible chez leurs agents de distribution canadiens, Direct Factory Sales; la plupart des originaux furent offerts aux clients, confr\u00e8res p\u00eacheurs et guides de la r\u00e9gion du Dorset. Le Wabler fut parmi l\u2019une des premi\u00e8res cuill\u00e8res \u00e0 acqu\u00e9rir un brevet aux \u00c9tats-Unis et au Canada; notamment pour la strie stabilisatrice qui aide \u00e0 pr\u00e9venir la rotation. Cette particularit\u00e9 se trouve toujours aujourd\u2019hui, sur la plupart des leurres Williams, une vraie marque de commerce.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-align-center u-clearfix u-white u-section-7\" id=\"sec-7ed0\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-sheet-1\">\n        <h2 class=\"u-align-left-xs u-text u-text-palette-2-base u-text-1\"> Apr\u00e8s avoir termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes en 1925, le fils de Malcolm, Lloyd Cameron Bud Williams, fit son entr\u00e9e dans la filiale canadienne de l\u2019organisation Williams.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n        <div class=\"u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n          <div class=\"u-layout\">\n            <div class=\"u-layout-row\">\n              <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-left-cell u-size-20 u-layout-cell-1\">\n                <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-1\">\n                  <p class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-palette-1-base u-text-2\"> Dans les ann\u00e9es qui suivirent, ce fut Bud qui devint le principal acteur du succ\u00e8s du Wabler et de la division p\u00eache de Williams. En tant que p\u00eacheur passionn\u00e9, il fut aussi responsable de l\u2019invention du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Whitefish et de presque tous les autres articles de p\u00eache produits par Williams.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n              <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-size-20 u-layout-cell-2\">\n                <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-2\">\n                  <p class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-palette-1-base u-text-3\"> &nbsp;En 1986, la famille Williams a vendu ses installations de Buffalo et Fort Erie. Les nouveaux propri\u00e9taires ont continu\u00e9 la production de leurres jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce qu\u2019en 1989, la compagnie Brecks, de Sherbrooke, rach\u00e8te \u00e0 son tour les droits de production de tous les leurres Williams.&nbsp;La compagnie Brecks fabrique d\u00e9sormais le Wabler, le Whitefish tous les autres leurres de Williams avec les m\u00eames normes de qualit\u00e9 initi\u00e9es des d\u00e9cennies plus t\u00f4t par A.D, Malcolm et Bud. Brecks a aussi fait l\u2019acquisition de trois autres marques depuis celle de Williams en 1989.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n              <div class=\"u-container-style u-layout-cell u-right-cell u-size-20 u-layout-cell-3\">\n                <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-3\">\n                  <p class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-palette-1-base u-text-4\"> Mooselook, Savant et Lake Clear re\u00e7oivent maintenant les m\u00eames finitions&nbsp; en argent v\u00e9ritable et or 24 carats que celles qui ont fait la renomm\u00e9e de Williams. Avec les nouvelles technologies d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui qui permettent des finitions encore plus durables, les leurres sont meilleurs que jamais.&nbsp;Un grand classique canadien avec une r\u00e9putation mondiale<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c0 propos Des produits de qualit\u00e9 depuis 1909 Pour la plupart des p\u00eacheurs, le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Wabler de Williams est aussi canadien que la feuille d\u2019\u00e9rable ou le hockey; et cela est presque enti\u00e8rement vrai.&nbsp; Con\u00e7u sur un lac proche de Dorset en Ontario, par les fr\u00e8res Williams qui \u00e9taient originaires de Nouvelle \u00c9cosse; sa forme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williams.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}