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Saint-Alexis, Quebec (municipality)
Saint-Alexis () is a municipality located in Quebec's Lanaudière region, part of the Montcalm Regional County Municipality. It was formed by the amalgamation on December 19, 2012, of the former village municipality and the former parish municipality of the same name. Saint-Alexis is generally considered one of the four municipalities of Nouvelle-Acadie. The name "Saint-Alexis" commemorates Canon Alexis-Frédéric Truteau (1808-1872). The latter was ordained in 1830 and occupied the post of Chancellor of the Bishop of Montreal, Mgr Ignace Bourget, during the creation of the canonical erection of the parish, in 1851. Truteau became famous during the “Guibord case”, when he refused Christian burial to Joseph Guibord following a Roman decree obtained by the bishop condemning the Canadian Institute. History The parish of Saint-Alexis was created on July 1, 1855, after the dissolution of the county of Leinster (witch covered the territory approximately equivalent to the RCMs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Quebec
Saint-Alexis-des-Monts () is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is located in the Laurentian Mountains, having a topography that is characterized by valleys and rounded hills, with an altitude varying between to . There are more than 600 lakes, 400 named and another 200 unnamed minor lakes. The majority (65%) of its territory is part of the Matawin Wildlife Reserve. The town depends on outdoor tourism that increases its seasonal population to between 8000 and 10,000 persons. History The first settlers were originally from Saint-Paulin and established the community on the banks of the Du Loup River, north-west of Saint-Paulin, around 1865. On October 30 of that year, Alexis Lefebvre Boulanger (1812-1885), pioneer and farmer, donated the land on which the village's chapel was built in 1867, and the church in 1884. Saint-Alexis was named after him. Its post office, identified as Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, opened in 1876. In 1877, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expulsion Of The Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain. It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine. The expulsion occurred during the French and Indian War, the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. Prior to 1758, Acadians were deported to the Thirteen Colonies, then later transported to either Britain or France. Of an estimated 14,100 Acadians, approximately 11,500 were deported, of whom 5,000 died of disease, starvation or shipwrecks. Their land was given to settlers loyal to Britain, mostly immigrants from New England and Scotland. The event is largely regarded as a crime against humanity, though the modern-day use of the term "genocide" is debated by scholars. According to a 1764 census, 2,600 Acadians remained in Nova Scotia at that time, having e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Liguori, Quebec
Saint-Liguori () is a municipality in the Montcalm Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Demographics Population: * Population in 2021: 2,066 (2016 to 2021 population change: 6.3%) * Population in 2016: 1,943 * Population in 2011: 1,976 * Population in 2006: 1,887 * Population in 2001: 1,793 * Population in 1996: 1,730 * Population in 1991: 1,506 * Population in 1986: 1,386 * Population in 1981: 1,255 * Population in 1976: 1,082 * Population in 1971: 1,049 * Population in 1966: 1,035 * Population in 1961: 1,084 * Population in 1956: 1,117 * Population in 1951: 1,075 * Population in 1941: 1,092 * Population in 1931: 1,026 * Population in 1921: 1,112 * Population in 1911: 1,190 * Population in 1901: 1,242 * Population in 1891: 1,170 * Population in 1881: 1,295 * Population in 1871: 1,485 * Population in 1861: 1,523 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 856 (total dwellings: 901) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 1% * French a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Jacques, Quebec
Saint-Jacques () is a 26 mi² (67.34 km²) rural municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Montcalm Regional County Municipality with a population of 4,300 year-round residents.Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census The municipality is notable for its natural beauty and horticulture. Officially founded in 1774 by thirty Acadian families who managed to escape by boat to Quebec after forced expulsion, Saint-Jacques is part of the region known as the "Acadian cradle of Lanaudière." "The Great Upheaval" (Fr. " le Grand Dérangement") began in the fall of 1755 and lasted until 1778. "The first removals ... fapproximately 7,000 people were from settlements around the Bay of Fundy" in present-day Nova Scotia. The majority were expelled by ship to the "continental colonies or France," but 225 fled south to Quebec. They would go on to found a handful of new Acadian villages, or “Little Cadies,” including Saint-Jacques, which is why t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acadians
The Acadians (; , ) are an ethnic group descended from the French colonial empire, French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in either the Northern American Acadia (region), region of Acadia, where descendants of Acadians who escaped the Expulsion of the Acadians (a.k.a. The Great Upheaval / ''Le Grand Dérangement'') re-settled, or in Louisiana, where thousands of Acadians moved in the late 1700s. Descendants of the Louisiana Acadians are most commonly known as Cajuns, the anglicized term of "Acadian". Acadia was one of the five regions of New France, located in what is now Eastern Canada's The Maritimes, Maritime provinces, as well as parts of Quebec and present-day Maine to the Kennebec River. It was ethnically, geographically and administratively different from the other French colonies such as the Canada (New France), French colony of Canada. As a result, the Acadians developed a dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre Dame Des Neiges Cemetery
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (, ) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which was founded in 1854. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of Côte-des-Neiges Road and up the slopes of Mount Royal. Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Canada by number of burials and the third-largest in North America. History and description Created on property purchased from Dr. Pierre Beaubien, the new cemetery was a response to growing demand at a time when the old Saint-Antoine Cemetery (near present-day Dorchester Square) had become too small to serve Montreal's rapidly increasing population. Founded in 1854 as a garden cemetery in the French style, it was designed by landscape architect Henri-Maurice Perreault, who studied rural cemeteries in Boston and New York. On May 29, 1855, thirty-five-year-old Jane Gilroy McCready, wife of Thomas McCready, then a Montreal municipal councillor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Lartigue
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., (20 June 1777 – 19 April 1840) was a Canadians, Canadian Society of Saint-Sulpice, Sulpician, who served as the first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal, Catholic Bishop of Montreal. Early life Lartigue was born to a noted Montreal family, the only son of Jacques Larthigue, a surgeon, and Marie-Charlotte Cherrier. He attended the Collège Saint-Raphaël (later the Petit Séminaire de Montréal), followed by two years at an English school run by the Sulpicians, receiving a solid education. He then law clerk, clerked for three years with a Montreal law firm where he developed a lifelong interest in the politics of Lower Canada. In this he followed the example of his three uncles who were members of the Canadian legislature, including Joseph Papineau and Denis Viger. In 1797, Lartigue gave up a promising career in the legal profession and turned toward the Catholic priesthood. He soon received minor orders and later the deacon, diaconate from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Assomption Regional County Municipality
L'Assomption () is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is L'Assomption, Quebec, L'Assomption. L'Assomption is located directly north of the city of Montreal. It is named for the L'Assomption River, which flows through the region from the north before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River in the south of the region at Repentigny, Quebec, Repentigny. Subdivisions There are 5 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (4) * Charlemagne, Quebec, Charlemagne * L'Assomption, Quebec, L'Assomption * L'Épiphanie, Quebec (city), L'Épiphanie * Repentigny, Quebec, Repentigny ;Parishes (1) * Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, Saint-Sulpice Demographics Population Language Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** ** * Principal Highways ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** * External Routes ** None ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Moulins Regional County Municipality
Les Moulins () is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. It is located immediately north of Laval, Quebec, Laval on the North Shore (Laval), north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles, and comprises the municipalities of Terrebonne, Quebec, Terrebonne and Mascouche. Historic communities in the region, which are now arrondissements of the two existing cities, include Lachenaie, Quebec, Lachenaie and La Plaine, Quebec, La Plaine. The population according to the 2016 Canadian Census was 158,267 Subdivisions There are 2 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Mascouche * Terrebonne, Quebec, Terrebonne ;Former municipalities (2) * La Plaine, Quebec, La Plaine * Lachenaie, Quebec, Lachenaie (Both are now sectors of Terrebonne, Quebec, Terrebonne) Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** ** ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut Canadien De Montréal
The Institut canadien de Montréal (, ) was founded on 17 December 1844, by a group of 200 young liberal professionals in Montreal, Canada East, Province of Canada. The Institute provided a public library and debating room for its members. At the time, there were no French-language universities nor public libraries in Montreal. Between 1845 and 1871, some 136 lectures were held inside the Institute's walls. The Institute eventually came into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over the contents of its library. Partly as a result of the dispute with the Church, the Institute eventually folded in the 1870s. Origins The Institute was founded in 1844 as a literary and scientific institution, for the purposes of providing a library, reading-room, and other educational purposes. Joseph Papin was the first president. In 1853, it was incorporated by an Act of the Province of Canada. At the time of incorporation, the Institute had over 500 members, a library of over 2000 volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
