Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans (Sainte-Famille prior to September 12, 2017) is a municipality in the

L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality L'Île-d'Orléans is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Capitale-Nationale region. Its seat is Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans. The population in the 2016 census was 7,082 people. The RCM consists solely of th ...

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, part of the administrative region of

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. It is situated along the western shores of Island of Orléans. Founded in 1661, Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans is the oldest settlement on l'

île d'Orléans Île d'Orléans (; English: Island of Orleans) is located in the Saint Lawrence River about east of downtown Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The island was one of the first parts of the province to be colonized by the French, and a large percenta ...

and has one of the most important concentrations of houses of the old French regime.

History

In 1661, l'Île d'Orléans' first parish was formed and it was known until 1679 as ''Paroisse de l'Île''. The parish municipality was first established in 1845 as La Sainte-Famille, abolished in 1847, and reestablished in 1855. The

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'La' disappeared in the 19th century.Poirier, J. (1962)
La toponymie de l'Ile d'Orléans
''Cahiers de géographie du Québec'', 6(12), 183–199S. See p. 194: L'article ne disparaît qu'au XIX^e siècle. A post office named Sainte-Famille-d'Orléans was opened in 1852.Poirier 1962, p. 197
On September 12, 2017, the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Famille changed statutes and name to the Municipality of Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans.

Demographics

Population

Language

Cultural significance

In literature

* In '' The Spy Who Loved Me'', Ian Fleming's ninth novel in his

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series, the narrator Vivienne Michel was born and raised in Sainte-Famille.

References

External links

Île d'Orléans - Sainte-Famille portrait
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Capitale-Nationale Quebec City Area 1661 establishments in the French colonial empire L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality