Saint-Luc () was a former town in southwestern
Quebec, Canada on the
Richelieu River.
In December 1970, the final members of the
Front de libération du Québec
The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Canadia ...
who were arrested for their roles in the
October Crisis were arrested here.
On January 24, 2001, the towns of Saint-Luc,
Saint-Athanase,
Iberville, and
L'Acadie merged into the city of
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost naviga ...
.
Saint-Luc was located in
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality. Population: (2001) 20,573.
Education
The Honore-Mercier School Commission,
South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board (SSPRSB) was a Protestant Christian school district in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It served the South Shore region and it was headquartered in St. Lambert.
The district operated elementary a ...
and the Chambly Catholic School Board previously served the municipality.
[King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board).]
South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
(St. Johns, PQ). ''The News and Eastern Townships Advocate
The ''News and Eastern Townships Advocate'' is a newspaper based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec started on January 27, 1848.
The headquarters for the paper were destroyed in 1942 during a fire, which resulted in the loss of the building and f ...
''. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday December 16, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News
Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web.
Google rel ...
on November 23, 2014.
References
External links
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Saint-Luc Official website(Archive)
Former municipalities in Quebec
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Populated places disestablished in 2001
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