Laurierville is a

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in the

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of the

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. It was constituted on November 26, 1997 by the amalgamation of the village municipality of Laurierville and the municipality of Sainte-Julie (the latter not to be confused with a different, modern-day Sainte-Julie in Montérégie). Laurierville contains the new storage warehouse of the

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Notable people

* Fernand Labrie, medical researcher * Marie-Rose Turcot, writer

References

Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec Designated places in Quebec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub