Lac-Mégantic () is a

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in the

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region of

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. It is located on

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, a freshwater lake after which the town was named. Situated in the former

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in the historic Eastern Townships, Lac-Mégantic is the seat of Le Granit Regional County Municipality and of the

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of Mégantic. Lac-Mégantic was a tourist destination and a producer of forestry products, furniture, Masonite doors, particleboard, and architectural granite before July 6, 2013, when the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster led to a massive fire and deadly explosion of

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s that destroyed many downtown buildings and killed 47 people.

History

Prior to contact with Europeans, the region was inhabited by the

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digs found that the

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s had been in the region for over 12,000 years, making this the oldest known site of human occupation in Quebec. The name of Mégantic comes from the

word "namesokanjik" which translates to "place where the fish are held." The first known European to discover the region was a

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, Father Druillettes of the

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, who arrived in 1646. He came to convert the Abenaki. The first colonists to settle in the region came two centuries later, around 1850, and were of

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or Scottish origin. Originally called Megantic, the town was founded in 1884 after the

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began construction of the final segment in its transcontinental railway linking

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with the

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port of Saint John,

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. This line opened in 1889, and was operated by International Railway of Maine, a subsidiary of CPR. Mégantic was the meeting place of two railroads at that time: the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Quebec Central Railway. The CPR line was more important because of its adaptation to large freight and passenger trains. Nearby Agnès, founded in 1895, was named after Susan Agnes Bernard, the widow of Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald. It merged with Mégantic in 1907. Macdonald and his wife had visited the area in 1879. Mégantic was renamed Lac-Mégantic in 1958, after the adjacent

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, located on the municipality's southern boundary. Lac-Mégantic consisted of two Roman Catholic parishes, Sainte-Agnès and Notre-Dame-de-Fatima. An important figure of Lac-Mégantic was Joseph Édouard Eugène Choquette, a priest, who, in his spare time, was an amateur scientist. He was the catalyst for the creation of an electric lighting system which, on the eve of

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in 1898, illuminated the entire city; and a power company. Father Choquette was also an amateur photographer.

Donald Morrison case

The first mayor (1885–1888) of Mégantic was Malcolm MacAuley, who was linked to the Donald Morrison case. Morrison's family had immigrated from the

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, in the

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and had settled locally in a largely

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-speaking farming community. Donald Morrison moved out

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to work as a

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on a ranch, sending money home to pay off the family debts. When he returned home, he found his family had lost their farm after they had signed a bad debt deal with Mayor MacAuley, the wealthiest resident in the town at the time. A barn belonging to the new owner was burned to the ground, and Donald Morrison was immediately charged with

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. A bounty of $25 was placed on Morrison, and an American

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was paid $2.50 a day to track him down. The bailiff was killed in a gunfight with Morrison on the town's main street. Morrison was chased through the woods for another ten months before being wounded, captured, and imprisoned. He died of tuberculosis five years later.

Lac-Mégantic derailment

At approximately 01:15 EDT, on July 6, 2013, an unattended 73-car

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carrying

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ran away and derailed near the downtown area of Lac-Mégantic, causing multiple

s to catch fire and explode. Forty-seven people were killed or presumed killed in the explosion and ensuing blaze, making the derailment Canada's deadliest rail disaster since the

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in 1864. More than 30 buildings in the town's centre were destroyed, including the town's library and archives. The police launched a criminal investigation, charging the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and three workers with criminal negligence. Of the 39 downtown buildings still standing as of December 2014, thirty-six are to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the underlying grounds.

Geography

Lac-Mégantic is located at the eastern part of the

administrative region, in the Regional County Municipality of Le Granit, approximately from the

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border. The

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has its source in Lake Megantic and empties into the

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, some further north, near Lévis (within the former city of Saint-Romuald). The Town of Lac-Mégantic is located from Mont Mégantic.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Lac-Mégantic had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In 2021, the median age of Lac-Mégantic was 53.6 and 87% of the population were 15 years of age and over. Residents whose sole native language was French numbered 5,705 (98%), while those with only English as their first language were 60 (1%), 40 people (0.7%) had another language as their mother tongue and 20 people (0.3%) counted both French and English as their first language.

Government

Municipal

The mayor of Lac-Mégantic is Jean-Guy Cloutier, who was elected in a special election in 2015 to succeed retiring mayor Colette Roy-Laroche. Due to the rail disaster, the provincial government of Quebec had delayed the municipal election in Lac-Mégantic from its regular timing concurrent with the 2013 municipal elections; the next election will, however, be held normally in 2017. Roy-Laroche, a former schoolmaster, was nicknamed "the granite lady" () for her handling of the derailment and its aftermath. The town council is made up of councillors representing six electoral districts.

Federal and provincial

Provincially, Lac-Mégantic is located in the provincial electoral district of Mégantic. It is represented by Ghislain Bolduc of the

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. Federally, Lac-Mégantic is part of the federal riding of Mégantic—L'Érable. It is represented by Luc Berthold of the

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Economy

Although the railway has declined in recent decades, Lac-Mégantic remains an important centre of

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and

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's local subsidiary, Tafisa Canada, operates a

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factory in the town. Other major local employers include furniture manufacturer Bestar and forestry company Industries Manufacturières Mégantic, part of Masonite International. Granite from the region was incorporated into the National September 11 Memorial in

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. Various other factories existed in the past, including a paper-printing plant; a sash-and-door factory; saw mills; and a butter, cheese, and cheese box factory. The region's economy in its early days was propelled by the logging industry due to the vast swaths of

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s. Many related industries operated in the region, including

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(Nantais Mill), the

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industry and the

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. Lake Mégantic was used for log floating, with a

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used to tow the logs to the

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. The first steamboat in the region, named the "Lena", was built by George Flint in 1881. At the time of the industrial revolution, rural and

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es made up the majority of Mégantic's population. In 1907, the town had 2600 people and the daily wage for a labourer was around C$1 to C$1.50. The working class lived in the northern district of the city, while those in liberal

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s, as well as store clerks and employees of financial institutions lived in the central part of the city (downtown). The first bank branch in the town was the People's Bank of Halifax, which opened in December 1893. Its first manager was a Mr. Aitkens from Cookshire. The bank was acquired by

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in 1905 and a new building constructed that same year. The branch closed in 2001 and was sold to Banque Nationale; the 5193 Frontenac Street building later housed legal aid offices. Only a broken, charred shell remained after the 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment burned much of the historic downtown but some legal records secured in the historic bank's vault survived the fire. The Eastern Townships Bank, established in

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in 1859, opened a Mégantic office in 1904 and acquired its own building at Frontenac and Thibodeau in 1910. That bank was acquired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1912; the local branch with its distinctive architectural columns closed during the

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in 1935.

Media

A weekly newspaper, ''L'Écho de Frontenac'', is published in the town and one radio station, CJIT-FM 106.7, operates from a local studio.

Tourism

The region has increased its reliance on tourism, a mainstay since the

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era, attracting people from across

and the

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. Lac-Mégantic profits from its proximity to two major provincial parks, Frontenac National Park on Lac Saint-François and Mont-Mégantic National Park near Notre-Dame-des-Bois. Mont-Mégantic Park is home of the ASTROlab astronomy museum and the Mont Mégantic Observatory, a mountaintop observatory and

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. The Lac-Mégantic lakeshore is host to the Complexe Baie des Sables beachfront park, the annual Traversée internationale du lac Mégantic swim meet in August and the Grand tour du lac Mégantic cycle tour each June. The most popular activities for tourists are hunting and fishing.

Education

Lac Mégantic is home to a junior college, ''Centre d’études collégiales de Lac-Mégantic'', which is affiliated with the Cégep Beauce-Appalaches. The college offers both technical and pre-university training programs including an

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program, which is the only one of its kind in Quebec. It also has a vocational training centre, the Centre de formation professionnelle Le Granit. The town, in the former Commission scolaire des Hauts-Cantons (now ), has one secondary school, Polyvalente Montignac, and two elementary schools, École Notre-Dame-de-Fatima and École Sacré-Cœur. The English language school board for the town is Eastern Townships School Board. Lac-Mégantic is the birthplace of author Nelly Arcan; a new municipal library opened May 5, 2014 bears her name. The library's site (a former Canadelle undergarment factory at 4409, rue Dollard) was chosen in 2010 to accommodate expansion of a collection then over 45,000 volumes. As the original collection was destroyed by fire in 2013, a hundred thousand books were donated by local groups, universities, authors and publishers across Québec.

Infrastructure

Lac Mégantic is crossed by Quebec Route 161 and Quebec Route 204.

(CP) built a transcontinental railway line linking

with the

port of Saint John,

. The division from Lac-Mégantic to

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, was operated by CP subsidiary International Railway of Maine and opened in 1889. The ''

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'' passenger train was operated by CP and later

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over this line, but was eliminated in December 1994. In 1988, CP consolidated its Lac-Mégantic-Saint John line into the Canadian Atlantic Railway. In December 1994, the line was sold to Canadian American Railroad (part of Iron Road Railways). After that company's 2003 bankruptcy, the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway provided freight service until the line in both directions was severed by the Lac-Mégantic derailment in 2013. MM&A claimed ''

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'' bankruptcy protection in August 2013; its assets were sold to

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as the

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in 2014. In September 1895, the Quebec Central Railway completed a branch line from the CP main line at Lac-Mégantic north to Tring Junction, a point from which onward connections were available to Lévis. This line was abandoned in the 1980s and has been removed. The town was also home to the now-decommissioned Megantic Airport; an industrial park and large sawmill occupy the former airfield. A municipal sports centre, which opened in 2011, offers a wide range of sporting and educational activities, including a

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and an

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. Lac-Mégantic is home to the Centre de santé et service sociaux (CSSS) du Granit, which is located on Laval Street. The facility serves the local community and contains a hospital centre for

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with 35 beds, and a

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centre with 44 beds.

Sister cities

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(1989) * Farmington, Maine,

(1991)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lac-Megantic Canadian Gaelic Cities and towns in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Le Granit Regional County Municipality Populated places established in 1884 1884 establishments in Quebec