L'Anse-Saint-Jean,
French for "The Cove of Saint John" is a
municipality
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in the
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of
Quebec
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, Canada. Its population was 1208 in the
Canada 2011 Census.
L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Société des Vingt-et-un, a group of lumber prospectors and investors from
Charlevoix
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which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to colonization.
Le Royaume de L'Anse-Saint-Jean / Kingdom of L'Anse-Saint-Jean
It achieved a certain notoriety when its citizens held a referendum on January 21, 1997, to turn the village into the Le Royaume de L'Anse-Saint-Jean (The Kingdom of L'Anse Saint Jean), the continent's first "municipal monarchy." The monarchists won 73.9% of the vote, with Denys Tremblay becoming King Denys I. The king was crowned on June 24,
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (french: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as ''St John the Baptist Day'', is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec and by Fren ...
, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans to build a "vegetable oratory," Saint-Jean-du-Millénaire (Saint John of the Millennium).
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al project was cheerfully conceded to be a way of boosting tourism
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in the region, which had been hit by the 1996 Saguenay Flood.
Gallery
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References
Related articles
* Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality
Le Fjord-du-Saguenay (''The Fjord of the Saguenay iver') is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Saint-Honoré, which is also its most populous municipality.
It is named for the ...
* Saint-Jean River, a watercourse
* Zec de la Rivière-Saint-Jean-du-Saguenay
Zec de la Rivière-Saint-Jean-du-Saguenay is a zone d'exploitation contrôlée (controlled harvesting zone) (zec) located in the municipalité of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality (RCM), in administrative re ...
, a controlled harvesting zone
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* Control, an element of management accounting
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(zec)
* Saint-Jean Bay, a bay
External links
Monarchy of L'Anse-Saint-Jean
Populated places established in 1838
Municipalities in Quebec
Micronations in Canada
Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Populated places established in 1997
1838 establishments in Lower Canada
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