L'Ange-Gardien () is a
municipality
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in the
Capitale-Nationale
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region of Quebec, Canada. It is part of
La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality
La Côte-de-Beaupré () is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Château-Richer. Its most populous community is the municipality of Boischatel.
Subdivisions
There are 11 subdivisions withi ...
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History
First settled by French colonists around 1633, the Parish of Saints-Anges-Gardiens (French for "holy guardian angels") was established by the first bishop of
New France
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, François de Laval, in 1664, making it the third oldest parish in the Côte-de-Beaupré. Its chapel was built in 1670. The place was originally known as Longue-Pointe (as shown on the
1641 map by Jean Bourdon) and as L'Ange Gardien by 1685 (as shown on the
map by Jean de Deshayes).
In 1845, the Parish Municipality of Ange Gardien was established, abolished in 1847, but reestablished in 1855 (in 1964, the name was adjusted to include the
definite article
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in its name). Its post office opened in 1861.
L'Ange-Gardien changed status from
parish municipality to regular municipality on May 17, 2007.
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 1,632 (total dwellings: 1,717)
Mother tongue (2021):
* English as first language: 0.8%
* French as first language: 97.3%
* English and French as first language: 0.7%
* Other as first language: 1.0%
Local government
List of former mayors:
* Joseph Gariépy (1845–1847)
* François Lépine (1855–1860)
* Charles Goulet (1860–1862)
* Pierre Jacob (1862–1864)
* Henri Huot (1864–1866, 1882–1884)
* Gabriel Garneau (1866–1872)
* François Laberge (1872–1876)
* Joseph C. Huot (1876–1877, 1888–1890)
* Joseph Gariépy (1877–1882)
* Joseph Huot (1884–1888)
* Augustin Bélanger (1890–1893)
* Antoine Mathieu (1893–1895)
* Cyrille Hébert (1895–1897)
* Hilaire Laberge (1897–1898)
* François Xavier Lefebvre (1898–1899)
* Isidore Garneau (1899–1900)
* Joseph C. Huot (1900–1906)
* Antoine Huot (1906–1907)
* Jacques Vézina (1907–1913)
* Elzéar Huot (1913–1914)
* Joseph Trudelle (1914–1916)
* Napoléon Gosselin (1917)
* Joseph Fortier (1917–1923)
* Romuald Côté (1923–1929, 1935–1939)
* Adélard Hébert (1929–1931)
* Léonce Mathieu (1931–1935)
* Louis Fecteau (1939–1955)
* Lucien Lefrançois (1955–1971)
* Lionel Tremblay (1971–1976)
* Ulric Fecteau (1976–1983)
* Joseph-Odilon-Adrien Laberge (1983–1985)
* Raymond Gariépy (1985–1989)
* Jocelyn Vézina (1989–1997)
* Denys Laberge (1997–2001)
* Pierre Lefrançois (2001–present)
See also
*Rivers flowing through L'Ange-Gardien:
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Chenal de l'Île d'Orléans Chenal is French for "channel". It can refer to:
People
* Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (1931–2020), Italian alpine skier
* Joël Chenal (born 1973), French alpine skier
* Leo Chenal (born 2000), American football player
* Marthe Chenal (1881–1947), ...
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Rivière la Retenue
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Rivière du Petit Pré
The Rivière du Petit Pré flows south, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence river, entirely in the municipality of L'Ange-Gardien, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, L'Ange-Gardien, in the (MRC) of La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality ...
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Ferrée River (Montmorency River tributary)
The Ferrée river is a tributary on the east bank of the Montmorency River. It flows in the municipalities of L'Ange-Gardien and Boischatel, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Natio ...
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St. Lawrence river
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List of municipalities in Quebec
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References
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