Sainte-Mélanie () is a municipality in the
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geogr ...
region of Quebec, Canada, part of the
Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is located along the western shores of the
L'Assomption River.
History
Sainte-Mélanie was formerly part of the territory of the
Ailleboust Seignory, granted to Jean d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil (1694-1785) in 1736. By 1800,
Pierre-Louis Panet (1761-1812) was Lord of Ailleboust, whose daughter Charlotte-Mélanie Panet (1794-1872) may have been the source of the name Sainte-Mélanie, also a reference to
Melania the Younger (383-439). Charlotte-Mélanie's husband, Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque (1782-1833), donated the land in 1814 for a chapel that was eventually built in 1830. The Parish of Sainte-Mélanie was founded in 1832, and four years later in 1836, the post office opened under the name Daillebout.
The municipality officially started in 1845, was soon after abolished, and reestablished in 1855 as Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust. In 1881, the post office was renamed to Sainte-Mélanie, and more than a century later in 1986, the municipality followed suit by also adopting this shortened name.
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,394 (total dwellings: 1,518)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0.9%
* French as first language: 97.8%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 1.3%
Education
Commission scolaire des Samares operates francophone public schools, including:
* École Sainte-Hélène
The
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, , CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal.
It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language schools from eight former school boards were amalg ...
operates anglophone public schools, including:
* Joliette Elementary School in
Saint-Charles-Borromée
*
Joliette High School
Joliette High School (JHS, ) is a public anglophone secondary school in Joliette, Quebec. Operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, it is the sole anglophone high school in Lanaudière. , it had about 265 students.
Attendance boundary
Ar ...
in
Joliette
Joliette () is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of G ...
Notable people from Sainte-Mélanie
*Aimé Pelletier (1914-2010), surgeon and well-known Quebec novelist, under the
pen name
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of
Bertrand Vac. Pelletier, who spent the majority of his professional career in Montreal, is interred with his ancestors at the Sainte-Mélanie cemetery.
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Louise-Amélie Panet (1789-1862), artist and poet, wife of the , died in Sainte-Mélanie;
the public library there is named in her honour.
See also
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List of municipalities in Quebec
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References
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Incorporated places in Lanaudière
Municipalities in Quebec