Saint-Stanislas (), old name ''Deux-Rivières'' (Village), is a

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part of Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie,

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History

Down the current of Quebec's rivers

In the early 1800s, in Quebec, mainly in the Outaouais, Mauricie and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions, attempts to transport wood by water began. In Batiscanie, the parish of Saint-Stanislas has a large reservoir of labour for work in rivers and forests. The village area of Saint-Stanislas is said to have had 422 inhabitants as early as 1851 and 593 twenty years later. Beginning in 1852, Price Brothers and Company exploited the forest of the Batiscan Valley. Several sawmills were built on the Batiscan and des Envies rivers. The presence of sawmilling facilities and the development of

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidder, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or trunk (botany), logs onto logging truck, trucksSaint-Maurice River basin allowed Saint-Stanislas to establish itself as the main basin for labour and forestry subcontracting until about 1870, before being overtaken by that of Saint-Tite, located further north, in the Laurentian mountains. The timber was transported by floating, down the current of the rivers, which required the work of cages and log drivers
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. The first types of trees cut were — Pin blanc L. — Pinus strobus. — White pine (eastern white pine)., shipped to

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. * The cageux, this Ulysses of the St. Lawrence River, and tributarys St-Maurice, Batiscan, Saguenay, Jacques-Cartier, Sainte-Anne (Les Chenaux) as exemples, was responsible for assembling the rafts and piloting the huge wooden train made of squared pine — also called a cage — to a port of embarkation. * The log driver, a daring tightrope walker of the rivers, was responsible for controlling the free floating of cut tree trunks that were thrown into a watercourse in order to reach a sawmill or a pulp and paper mill. The settlers who had already established themselves took advantage of the proximity of the construction sites to sell their agricultural production and at the same time provided a workforce for whom working in the forest represented an additional income.''

Geography

The territory of Saint-Stanislas is set ablaze in gigantic geographical and geological formations: on the Canadian Shield, at the foot of the Laurentian mountain range, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the Saint-Narcisse moraine, the boreal forest, among other elements. The municipality was established on both sides of the Batiscan River, at the confluence of the Rivière des Envies, about twenty kilometres from the St. Lawrence River, in ''Batiscanie'', the vernacular name of an undefined territory. Saint-Stanislas is part of this group of parishes that historians describe as the first pioneer front of the Mauricie region in the nineteenth century.'' ( Photos)

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Saint-Stanislas 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. Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006,

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, 2016, 2021 census Others statistics based on 2021 Canadian Census: Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 506 (total dwellings: 579) Mother language of Saint-Stanislas's citizens: * French as first language: 98.0% * English as first language: 0.5% * English and French as first language: 1.0% * Other as first language: 1.0% In 2021 Census, 215 particulars declared themselves as bilingual (English & French), 785 speaking French only and none speaking English only. The median age of the population was 56.8 years in 2021. In addition, 88% of the population was aged 15 and over.

Photos

Saint-Stanislas, Mauricie, Quebec, Batiscan River File:Pont routier enjambant la rivière Batiscan au village de Saint-Stanislas (Les Chenaux), en Mauricie, au Québec, au Canada- 2014-07-06 19-11.jpg, Vieux pont de fer ( Quebec Road 159) File:Église Saint-Stanislas.JPG, Parish church File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 015.jpg, Parish church, presbytery, municipality File:Saint Stanislas 013.jpg, Municipality File:Saint Stanislas 062.jpg, Mill built by the Jesuits in 1781, monument erected by the Historical Society of Saint-Stanislas, road 159 File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 007.jpg, Rang de la Rivière Batiscan NE File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 009.jpg, Rang de la Rivière Batiscan NE File:Rang riv Batsican Nord Est 004.jpg, Beach, Rang de la Rivière Batiscan NE File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 011.jpg, Rang de la Rivière Batiscan NE File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 010.jpg, Rang de la Rivière Batiscan NE

References

External links

Historical Society
Municipality of Saint-Stanislas, list of publications (French)
St. Lawrence River
The Canadian Encyclopedia - Historica Canada, January 1922

Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs Québec, 2023 (French).
Plan directeur de l’eau de la rivière Batiscan
Société d’aménagement et de mise en valeur du bassin de la Batiscan (SAMBBA) (2015) (French).. *
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(fr), Trois-Rivières 1981, recherche sur le patrimoine local et régional
Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies 1787-1919
(fr), Advitam, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Village du bûcheron de Grandes-Piles
l’univers des bûcherons québécois d’antan (French).
Menaud maître-draveur
Savard Félix-Antoine (1896-1982), Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal 2004 (French).
Saint-Stanislas-de-la-Rivière-des-Envies
Manuscrit 1787-1919, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec « BAnQ Trois-Rivières » (French).
Municipalité Saint-Stanislas-de-Champlain
1302, rue Principale, Saint-Stanislas-de-Champlain, Québec, G0X 3E0 (French).
Société d' histoire de Saint-Stanislas
liste et accès aux ouvrages traitant de l'histoire de la municipalité, aux registres d'état civil et autres *

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