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The Desjardins Group (French: Mouvement Desjardins, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ deʒaʁdɛ̃]) is a Canadian financial service cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions (French: caisses populaires) in North America. It was founded in 1900 in Lévis, Quebec by Alphonse Desjardins. [2]
Canada has a strong co-operative financial services sector, which consists of credit unions (caisses populaires in Quebec and other French speaking regions). At the end of 2001, Canada's credit union sector consisted of 681 credit unions and 914 caisses populaires, with more than 3,600 locations and 4,100 automated teller machines. [45]
Credit unions are called caisses populaires in French-speaking communities of Canada. This one is located in Shediac, New Brunswick. Canada has significant per-capita membership in credit unions, representing more than a third of the working-age population. [1]
The oldest caisse populaire still in existence was founded in Petit-Rocher in December of that year. Between 1936 and 1941, a total of 60 caisses populaires and 78 credit unions were established, the cooperative movement seeing greater success in New Brunswick than in Nova Scotia despite the origin of the Antigonish Movement in the latter ...
BPCE (for Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne) is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups, Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021, it was France's fourth-largest bank, the seventh largest in Europe, and the nineteenth in the world by total assets. [ 3 ]
At the time of his death in 1920, there were 187 caisses populaires in Québec (30,000 members and total assets of nearly $6 million), 24 in Ontario and 9 in the United States. Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins' home, where the first caisse populaire was launched, is now a center dedicated to his memory and has been visited by over 178,000 ...
Ste. Anne, or Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes, is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located about 42 km southeast of Winnipeg. The population was 2,114 in 2016, 1,524 in 2011, and 1,513 in 2011. The population was 2,114 in 2016, 1,524 in 2011, and 1,513 in 2011.
Caisse populaire Nouvel-Horizon Inc. (#2179) Caisse Populaire Rideau-Vision d'Ottawa Inc. (#2206) Caisse populaire Sud-Ouest Ontario Inc. (#2224) Caisse populaire Trillium Inc. (#2209) Caisse populaire de la Vallée (#2162) Caisse populaire Vallée Est Ltée. (#2212) Caisse populaire Vermillon (#2215) Caisse populaire Voyageurs Inc. (#2226) La ...