Saint-Liboire (or Saint-Liboire-de-Bagot) is a municipality in the municipalité régionale de comté des Maskoutains in

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, Canada, located in the administrative region of

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. The population as of the 2011 Canadian Census was 3,051.

History

Before the foundation of Saint-Liboire, the actual town territory was included in the Seigneurie de Ramezay given to

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near 1710. The

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was founded in 1857 with the purpose to offer more arable lands to the Catholic colonists coming from the

Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Hyacinthe (; French: ) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 57,239. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérég ...

region. It became the chief town of

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Reading suggestion

The book ''Centenaire de Saint-Liboire, 20-24 juin 1957 : album-souvenir, 1857-1957'' written by Dollard Boucher and Armand Laliberté, and is available at the

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Demographics

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External links

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