Saint-Anselme () is a village in the

Bellechasse Regional County Municipality Bellechasse Regional County Municipality () is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. The county seat is Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse. Saint-Lazare was chosen as the county seat because of its central locat ...

, part of the

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches (, ) is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachia ...

administrative region of

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, Canada. It is the second biggest municipality in the RCM, after

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. The

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goes through the village.

History

The municipality of the parish of Saint-Anselme was founded in 1845. The municipality of the village of Saint-Anselme was created in 1920. The two municipalities were merged in 1998 to create the current municipality. The year 1829 marked the start of religious construction. A chapel-presbytery was built according to the plans of architect Thomas Baillairgé and his mentor, Abbé Jérôme Demers, Vicar General. François Audet dit Lapointe, then living in Saint-Charles, where he had just finished enlarging the church, was awarded the contract to build the chapel-presbytery, and then, in 1846, the present church, which was completed in 1850. Around fifteen cooperative groups have been created since 1940: *the Société coopérative agricole (1941) ; *la Boulangerie coopérative (1943) ; *the Meunerie coopérative (1949) ; *the Garage coopératif (1955); *Avicole régionale Etchemin ; *the Cercle des jeunes éleveurs. Quebec Central and Canadian National railway lines have been located here since 1875, but were replaced by the Bellechasse cycloroute in 2012.

Notable people

* Georges Dumont (Saint-Anselme, 1898 -

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, 1966), medical doctor and politician *

Louis-Napoléon Larochelle Louis-Napoléon LaRochelle (November 14, 1834 – October 27, 1890) was a manufacturer, railway contractor and political figure in Quebec. He represented Dorchester (provincial electoral district), Dorchester in the Legislative Assembly of Q ...

(1834-1890), manufacturer, railway contractor and politician

References

Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub