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An aerial view of the village of Percé, Quebec, and its famous rock, taken from Mont-Sainte-Anne. The Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec (French: Association des plus beaux villages du Québec, pronounced [asɔsjɑsjɔ̃ de ply bo vilaʒ dy kebɛk]) is an association created in 1997 by Jean-Marie Girardville and inspired from similar associations in France, Belgium, and Italy.
This is the list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipality type of city (ville, ... La Vallée-du-Richelieu: Montréal: 17,053 17,059 0.0%: 35.84: 475.8
Quebec City: Maison Lambert-Dumont: 1689 Quebec: Maison Michel-Dubuc [273] 1690 Longueuil: Vincelotte Windmill [274] 1691 Cap-Saint-Ignace: 2360–2362, chemin Royal [275] 1691 ile d'Orleans: La Petite Ferme, House: 1692 La Petite-Ferme, Quebec: Fort de la Montagne: 1694 [Montreal, Quebec] Moulin (Mill) du Petit-Pré [276] 1695 Château-Richer ...
On February 16, 1935, the place separated from the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Etienne de Murray-Bay and Sainte-Agnès [5] (currently both part of La Malbaie) and was incorporated as a municipality, officially adopting the name Clermont for the new municipality. [1] [4] In 1949, Clermont changed its status to village and in 1967 to town. [1]
Beaubassin was an important Acadian village and trading centre on the Isthmus of Chignecto in what is now Nova Scotia, CanadaThe area was a significant place in the geopolitical struggle between the British and French empires.
The mill had two doors, to provide an exit regardless of which ways the sails faced. The walls are four French feet (1m32) thick at the base. The interior is 12 French feet in diameter by 24 high. [2] The mill originally contained elevated platforms beneath gun slits for defence. The surrounding shoreline was fenced with pointed wooden stakes.
The name Grondines was named by Samuel de Champlain himself in 1674. [2] " Grondines" is from the French verb "gronder", meaning to rumble or roar.The 'seigneurie des Grondines' was one of the oldest lordship in the province of Quebec, and was initially granted in 1637 by the Company of New France to Duchess Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Dame d'atours of Marie de' Medici, and ...
Mille-Isles (French pronunciation: [mil il], lit. ' Thousand Islands ') is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, west of Saint-Jérôme. Mille-Isles is in the Laurentian Hills, crossed by rivers and dotted with fish-filled lakes. [4]