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Association Des Plus Beaux Villages Du Québec
The Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec (, ) is an association created in 1997 by Jean-Marie Girardville and inspired from similar associations in France, Belgium, and Italy. Its objective is to promote the preservation and the enhancement of the architectural and historical heritage of villages in Quebec, as well as the quality of their landscape. As of 2009, it had 37 village members located in 10 different regions. It is affiliated to the international association The Most Beautiful Villages in the World. List of village members * Cacouna * Calixa-Lavallée * Cap-Santé * Champlain * Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent * Deschambault-Grondines * Dudswell * Frelighsburg * Hudson * Inverness * Kamouraska * Lac-Brome * L'Anse-Saint-Jean * Les Éboulements * Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine * L'Islet * Lotbinière * Métis-sur-Mer * Neuville * Notre-Dame-du-Portage * Percé * Sainte-Pétronille * Sainte-Rose-du-Nord * Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly * Saint-Antoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec
L'Anse-Saint-Jean (), French for "The Cove of Saint John" is a municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 1,301 in the Canada 2021 Census. L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Société des Vingt-et-un, a group of lumber prospectors and investors from Charlevoix which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to colonization. The village achieved some fame in 1997 when its citizens voted in a referendum to declare the village a "municipal monarchy" as the Kingdom of L'Anse Saint Jean. History Kingdom of L'Anse-Saint-Jean The village's citizens held a referendum on 21 January 1997, to turn the village into ''Le Royaume de L'Anse-Saint-Jean'' (the kingdom of L'Anse Saint Jean), the continent's first "municipal monarchy." The monarchists won 73.9% of the vote, with Denys Tremblay becoming King Denys I. The king was crowned on 24 June, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu (, ) is a municipality in the southwestern part of Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 2,285. History In 1694, King Louis XIV granted the Seigneurie of Saint-Denis to the aristocrat French Army officer, Louis-François De Gannes, sieur de Falaise of Buxeuil, Vienne, France. He named his seigniory after his wife, Barbe Denys. A great stone Roman Catholic Saint-Denis Church was completed in 1796. On November 23, 1837, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu was the site of the murder of British courier, Lieutenant George Weir by Patriotes. Subsequently, the Patriotes, calling themselves The Sons of Liberty based on the American model, won a battle here against the British Army that marked the official beginning of the Lower Canada Rebellion. Today, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu has a museum called the ''Maison nationale des Patriotes'', an interpretatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu (, ) is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,738. Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu was the birthplace of one of the Fathers of Confederation, George-Étienne Cartier. Demographics Population Population trend:Statistics Canada: Canada 1996 Census, 1996, Canada 2001 Census, 2001, Canada 2006 Census, 2006, Canada 2011 Census, 2011 census Language Mother tongue language (2021) See also *List of municipalities in Quebec References External links Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality {{Montérégie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Quebec
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly () is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,682 as of 2021. A member of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly has been colonized since the early beginnings of New France New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br .... The '' seigneurie'' of Villieu was sold in 1700 to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur de Tilly and became the ''seigneurie'' of Tilly, which is still part of the municipality's name. Saint-Antoine is named in honour of St. Anthony of Padua. History In 1672, The territory of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly was given to a lieutenant of the Carignan regiment, Claude-Sébastien de Villieu, by the intendant Jean Talon. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Rose-du-Nord, Quebec
Sainte-Rose-du-Nord () is a village on the north shore of the Saguenay River in Quebec, Canada. The site was known, from 1801 to 1933, as La Descente-des-Femmes. Amerindian women awaited the return of the men from fishing, and would meet them by descending from the heights to the shore. The patron saint of the parish, Rose of Lima, chosen for reasons unknown, was the first saint canonised in the New World. The specifier -du-Nord was added in 1933, when the post office was established. Residents are known as Roserains. The parish was first established in 1838. The economy is based primarily on tourism. The village is a member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec. There has been some agriculture and logging. Formerly, wood was floated from the wharf to paper mills. Today, many residents work in Chicoutimi 35 km up river to the west. The site is on the north shore of the Saguenay River. The site is in a cove with a wharf. The village is set back from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percé, Quebec
Percé () is a city located on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, in Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. Percé, member of the association of Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, is mainly a tourist location particularly well known for the attractions of Percé Rock and Bonaventure Island. UNESCO Global Geoparks accredited Percé Geopark in 2018. In addition to Percé itself, the town's territory also includes the communities of Barachois, Belle-Anse, Bougainville, Bridgeville, Cap-d'Espoir, Cannes-de-Roches, Coin-du-Banc, L'Anse-à-Beaufils, Pointe-Saint-Pierre, Rameau, Saint-Georges-de-Malbaie, and Val-d'Espoir. Percé is the seat of the judicial district of Gaspé. Within the territory of the city, the Railway station is also called Percé. History The area was within the traditional homelands of the Mi'kmaq people, who called the place ''Sigsôg'' ("steep rocks" or "crags") and ''Pelseg'' ("fishing place"). In 1603 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Quebec
Notre-Dame-du-Portage () is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec located at the edge of the Saint Lawrence River in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. It is part of the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and home to the Riviere-du-Loup Golf Club. History The municipality of Notre-Dame-du-Portage was officially created on July 19, 1856, by merging two sections of Rivière-du-Loup and Saint-André. Construction of the first chapel began on May 30, 1855, under the supervision of Rivière-du-Loup priest Narcisse Beaubien. The first mass was celebrated there on November 1, 1855, by priest Beaubien, while the chapel received his blessing. The parish was canonically erected on March 1, 1856, while the parish municipality was officially created on July 19 of the same year from territories of the parishes of Saint-Patrice de Rivière-du-Loup and Saint-André-de-Kamouraska. A small Stations of the Cross given free of charge at the chapel was blessed by Father Michaud o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuville, Quebec
Neuville () is a Canadian village founded in 1684. History In 1653, the area was granted as a seigneurie by Jean de Lauson to Jean Bourdon de Saint-Jean (ca. 1601–1668) for his son Jean-François Bourdon de Dombourg (1647–1690), who was an engineer, surveyor, cartographer, and Attorney General to the sovereign. In 1680, the Dombourg Seigneurie was acquired by Nicolas Dupont de Neuville (1632–1716), thereafter the seigneurie was known as Neuville. In 1679, the Saint-François-de-Sales Parish was formed; it became a civil parish in 1684. The place was also known as Pointe-aux-Trembles (or Pointe-au-Tremble), in reference to the point on which the church was built, which once was covered with aspen and birch. In 1850, the post office opened, identified as Pointe-aux-Trembles. In 1855, the place was incorporated as a Parish Municipality of Saint-François-de-Sales, but renamed to Pointe-aux-Trembles some time after. In 1919, part of its territory separated to form the Villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotbinière, Quebec
Lotbinière () is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 855 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is named after the ''Seigneurial system of New France, seigneurie'' of which it was part. Bordered in the northwest by the Saint Lawrence River, Lotbinière is part of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec network. History It was constituted in 1979 from the amalgamation of the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière and the village of Lotbinière. The area was initially settled by French colonizers at the end of the 17th century. It is named after René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, who was granted the seigneury of Lotbinière in 1672. Attractions * Moulin du Domaine, historical water-powered flour mill * Moulin du Portage, historical water-powered flour mill * Saint Lawrence River HVDC Powerline Crossing References External links *Commission de toponymi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
