L'Isle-aux-Coudres is a

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, Canada, in the

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in the

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area of the

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region. It is located on and contiguous with Coudres Island (''Île aux Coudres''), located in the

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about south from the mainland. The island was named by

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during his second expedition in 1535 for the many nut-bearing trees on the island. "Coudriers" is the archaic French word for

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tree. Whereas the modern French spelling for "island" is ''île'', the municipality uses the old French spelling of ''Isle''. Its population centres include La Baleine in the north-east, (Saint-Louis-de-)l'Isle-aux-Coudres in the south, and Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer in the north-west facing Baie-Saint-Paul. A free

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service connects Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer to Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive on the north shore of the gulf. Formerly, porpoise fishing was practised on a broad basis, supplemented by some boat construction. Today tourism is the main industry, and the place is known for its historical sites, tourist accommodations, and craftspeople. On the beach near the ferry dock, there is a shipyard that is home to craftsmen who work according to ancestral techniques. The island is also a popular destination for cyclists. It was the setting for the classic 1963

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documentary ''

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''.

Geography

The island is about long and averages in width. It is thought to have been formed from material lifted up by the impact of the

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which formed the

region. Local streams include the Rouge River and Mare Creek.

History

Étienne de Lessart of Ste. Anne-de-Beaupré was granted title as the first Seigneur of l'Isle-aux-Coudres by Governor Buade de Frontenac on March 4, 1677. Due to a failure to develop the property to increase its value he was forced to sell the seigneurie on October 19, 1687 to the Séminaire de Québec who began to establish a monastery on the site. On October 29, 1687, Governor Denonville and Intendant Champigny granted the island as a seignory to the

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, an act that was ratified on March 1, 1688. In 1728, the first concessions of land were granted to settlers, and by 1741, the Parish of Saint-Louis-de-France was formed, soon after renamed to Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres. Named after

Louis IX of France Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the ...

, it probably was also a tribute to Louis Chaumont (or Chaumonot) de La Jaunière (ca. 1700-1776), priest of Baie-Saint-Paul from 1736 to 1767. In 1845, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres was formed. In 1847, it was abolished, but reestablished in 1855, and would remain the only municipality covering the entire island for the next 80 years. The community of Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer, first known as Pointe-des-Roches until 1936, only really developed from 1902 onward. The Parish of Saint-Bernard, named in honour of

Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. ( la, Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templars, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through ...

(ca. 1090-1153), was officially founded in 1934 when it separated from the Parish of Saint-Louis, and was incorporated as the Municipality of Saint-Bernard-de-l'Île-aux-Coudres in 1936. In 1951, the Municipality of La Baleine was incorporated, when it separated from Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres. It was named after an incident that had occurred in the late 18th century when the islanders found a carcass of a dead

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(in French: ''baleine'') that had stranded on the island's flats. At this point, the island was divided into three municipal entities. On January 5, 1994, the Municipality of Saint-Bernard-de-l'Île-aux-Coudres and the Parish Municipality of Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres were merged and formed the Municipality of L'Île-aux-Coudres (new spelling). On August 23, 2000, this municipality and the Municipality of La Baleine were merged again to form the new Municipality of L'Isle-aux-Coudres (old spelling).

Demographics

Population trend:Statistics Canada:

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census * Population in 2016: 1143 (2011 to 2016 population change: -10.6%) * Population in 2011: 1279 (2006 to 2011 population change: -1.3%) * Population in 2006: 1296 * Population in 2001: 1319 * Population in 1996: ** L'Ile-aux-Coudres (municipality): 1066 ** La Baleine (municipality): 279 * Population in 1991: ** L'Ile-aux-Coudres (municipality): 1101 ** La Baleine (municipality): 282 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 551 (total dwellings: 754) Mother tongue: * French as first language: 98.3% * English as first language: 0.9% * English and French as first language: 0.4% * Other as first language: 0.9%

References

External links

Les Moulins de L'Isle-aux-Coudres

{{DEFAULTSORT:Isle-Aux-Coudres, Quebec Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Capitale-Nationale 1728 establishments in the French colonial empire

Geography

History

Demographics

See also

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