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Bois-des-Filion (French pronunciation: [bwa de filjɔ̃]) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, located in Quebec, Canada, to the north of Montreal.. Historically, hundreds of families annually travelled to this region seasonally to experience the maple forests; however, the tourist industry is currently a minor source of income for the city.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ batist] ⓘ) is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, a Canadian province. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 3,179. It is located within La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality in a valley between Mont Saint-Hilaire and Mont Rougemont.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, a former municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec that is now part of Mont-Joli, Quebec Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New Brunswick , Canada Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), institution in Quebec dedicated to protection of francophone interests
On January 1, 1946, the municipality of Sainte-Thérèse-Ouest was founded. It was a detachment of the large parish of Sainte-Thérèse, which originally included the current territories of Saint-Augustin, Saint-Janvier, Sainte-Monique, Sainte-Thérèse, Rosemère, Bois-des-Filion, Lorraine and Blainville.
Meeting of Marie-Anne and Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière with First Nations people, c. 1807. Marie-Anne Lagimodière (née Gaboury; 15 August 1780 – 14 December 1875) was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, [1] and as the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in what is now Western Canada.
It was not until 1743 when Suzanne de Langloiserie and her husband Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville took possession of the land. On October 15, 1789, Marie-Anne Thérèse de Blainville, to whom the Seigneury of Blainville was bequeathed jointly with her sister Marie-Hypolite de Blainville, inaugurated the parish of Sainte-Thérèse-d'Ávila.
Over the centuries, a great number of river pilots came from Saint-Jean. [5] In 1845 the Municipality of Saint-Jean was formed, but abolished in 1847 when it became part of the County Municipality. In 1852, its post office opened. In 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste. In 2003, it changed statutes and ...