Montebello is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
located in the
Papineau Regional County Municipality
Papineau is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville.
Subdivisions
There are 24 subdivisions within the RCM:
Demographics
Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census
In 2016, the popu ...
of Western
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. At the 2001 census, there were 1,039 permanent residents. The village has a total area of , and is located at the eastern edge of Quebec's Outaouais region. It is located on the border with
Ontario
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.
The village is the location of the
Château Montebello
The Fairmont Le Château Montebello, formerly and commonly known as the Château Montebello, is a historic hotel and resort complex in Montebello, Quebec, Canada. The resort complex includes a large game reserve and a large wooden structure. The w ...
resort, the largest log structure ever built. The resort was the host of the 1983
NATO Nuclear Planning Group
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, and the
1981 G7 Economic Summit.
Parc Omega, a large drive-through wildlife park, is just to the north in
Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours.
Since 2005, it also hosts the
Amnesia Rockfest, which had become Canada's largest rock festival. Past performers include
System of a Down
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,
Blink-182
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,
Alice Cooper
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,
The Offspring
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,
Korn,
Marilyn Manson,
Linkin Park,
Rise Against and
Dream Theater
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.
History
Non-native settlement of the area began when the land of the Petite Nation
Seigneury
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was purchased by
Joseph Papineau
Joseph Papineau (October 16, 1752 – July 8, 1841) was a notary, seigneur, and political figure in Lower Canada.
Between 1773 and 1775, he worked as a surveyor. Papineau was also a horticulturalist whose estate home at Montebello is a to ...
in 1801. Later in 1817,
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the ''seigneurie de la Petite-Nation''. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Low ...
inherited the property and starting in 1846, built the Manor of Montebello, which is now a
National Historic Site in the national park system, operated by
Parks Canada.
The Family Museum, (c. 1880) which is on the national Register of Historic Places, is next to Manoir Papineau, on the grounds of the National Historic Site.
Louis-Joseph is credited with giving the name "Monte-Bello" to the location in 1854 as tribute to
Louis Napoleon Lannes,
Duke of Montebello (1801-1874), French diplomat and foreign minister in 1839, with whom he had become acquainted during his exile in France from 1839 to 1845.
In 1855, the village got its post office. In 1878, it separated from the Parish Municipality of
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-la-Petite-Nation and formed the Village Municipality of Montebello. On August 2, 2003, its status was changed and it became the Municipality of Montebello.
On August 20–21, 2007, the
President of the United States
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(
George W. Bush
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), the
Prime Minister of Canada
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(
Stephen Harper), and the
President of Mexico
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(
Felipe Calderón
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) held a major trilateral summit meeting, in relation to the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, at the Château Montebello. A diverse group numbering more than 1,200 protestors opposed the SPP meeting. The group included
labour unions,
environmental activists
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,
political parties and
NGOs
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.
Demographics
Mother tongue:
[
* English as first language: 5.6%
* French as first language: 89.8%
* English and French as first language: 2.0%
* Other as first language: 2.0%
]
Local government
List of former mayors:
* Henri Bourassa (1890–1894)
References
External links
*
Manoir Papineau
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Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Outaouais