Louis Cyr

The web of Louis Cyr (I made it on inspiration)

Louis Cyr was born Oct. 11 in St. Cyprien in eighteen sixty three. He was the oldest out of seventeen kids. Louis weighed eighteen pounds at birth. Since Louis was the oldest child he had to do a lot of the work around the farm. If they were going to build a brick building he would bring the bricks to the spot and he had to do most the work. Both of his parents were really big people his dad was six foot four and weighed two hundred and sixty pounds. Louis’s mom was six foot one and weighed two hundred and sixty five pounds

The Cyr family crest (made it)

At the age seventeen he already weighed two hundred and thirty pounds. His first weight lifting game at the age of eighteen years old in Boston was something all the weight lifters had to do; lift a full grown male horse off the ground completely. The horse’s weight was three fourths of a ton. Cyr was the only one that could come close to lifting the horse all of the opponents could not come close or even lift the horse. In 1882 Louis and his family returned to Quebec and then he married Melina and worked for the police force in Montreal. On the same year he was boxer, wrestler and a weight lifter. Louis entered in other strong man competition against the reigning Canadian strong man David Michaud. Louis lifted a two hundred pound barbell and David lifted a one hundred pound barbell. Louis put two thousand three hundred pounds on his back then David put on two thousand pounds on his back. Louis was now the strongest man in Canada. Many of Louis Cyr’s lifts have never even been beaten today. Many of the world’s strongest men today are taking drugs to make them way stronger but back in the day when Louis was alive there were no performance enhancing drugs like we have today. Back then it was just on pure strength and Louis was the best at strength. (Born 1863

Louis Cyr lifting weights (made it)

Louis Cyr had to work at his farm a lot because his dad had broken his leg so Louis was doing all the farming and he had some help from his brothers. Louis was not just a strong man, he did a lot of other jobs too. For example, he was a boxer and a police man for two years in Montreal. After he was in the police force Louis was still doing some incredible feats. One of these feats happened in the 1890’s in Boston when Lois lifted eighteen people on a board that weighed around four thousand three hundred pounds. All of Louis’s greatest and heaviest feats occurred from 1880 to 1890. Nobody could come close to what Louis was lifting with all sorts of body parts like his back, his legs, but mostly his arms. Louis’s arms were almost as wide as a seven or eight year old kid’s waist. Louis was a big man and way bigger than the average man and even as a child he was much larger than the other kids.

Louis infront of Canada flag (made it)

By 1904 Louis was weighing around four hundred pounds; his health was getting worse because he was getting older, eating too much and not exercising properly. He could still lift over one thousand pounds but he was no longer in good shape. In Louis’s day they didn’t have very much medicine so they only gave it to people that were so sick and would die without medication. Back in the 1800’s people did not live that long because the doctors didn’t find that many cures for diseases. In 1904 Louis picked up a disease called Bright’s disease. It happens when the blood vessels in your kidney are always inflamed and never goes away. Louis died on November 10, 1912 at the age of 49. Louis Cyr was known to be the worlds’ strongest man so Richard Fox, publisher of the Police Gazette newspaper offered $5,000 to whomever could beat Louis at a strong man competition but that never happened, even though many people tried. In honour of Louis Cyr there have been many statues put up in Quebec City. A district in Montreal is named after him and the high school in his hometown of Napierville is named after him.