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In the winter two hockey rinks and an ice skating oval are added. Another large, multi-use park is called Le Parc nature les Forestiers de Saint-Lazare (2800 Chemin Lotbinière, Saint-Lazare, QC J7T 3H9). It is a 4-season park, with an outdoor pool, trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, horse riding, and snowshoeing, and picnic areas.
The county seat is Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse. [2] Saint-Lazare was chosen as the county seat because of its central location. Other municipalities, such as Saint-Anselme, Sainte-Claire, and Saint-Damien had wanted to be the county seat because of their larger population. [citation needed] The region belongs to the Lévis—Bellechasse federal ...
Saint-Lazare (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lazaʁ də bɛlʃas]) is a small village of 1,200 people founded in 1849 and is the seat of the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region. It was chosen as the seat over larger municipalities because it is in the geographical centre of the region.
Saint-Laurent contains two CÉGEPs within its limits, one English (Vanier College) and one French (Cégep de Saint-Laurent). An art museum, the Saint-Laurent Museum of Art, is located on the campus of Cégep de Saint-Laurent, along with an indoor college hockey rink. Formerly, there was also a bowling alley on the campus.
Seigneurie de Nouvelle-Longueuil founded on April 21, 1734 (modern day Saint-Polycarpe, Saint-Télesphore, Saint-Zotique, Les Coteaux et Rivière-Beaudette) [13] [14] [circular reference] Canton Newton founded in August 1791 (modern day Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, not part of the seigneurie system, was modeled after British township system) [ 15 ...
Settlement began in 1835 with the arrival of Irish immigrants. In 1846, the parish was founded and named after Martha, the sister of Lazarus, since the neighbouring parish was called Saint-Lazare. [1] That same year, the Municipality of Sainte Marthe was created out of the Municipality of Rigaud, but abolished on September 1, 1847.
The place was mentioned in 1687 by Marquis de Denonville.His record stated that "Costeau du Lac is a place where one stopped on the way to the Rapides d'en Haut", referring to a small hillside (French: coteau) on the north side of the St. Lawrence River near the mouth of Lake Saint Francis (French: lac Saint-François).
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Nazaire-de-Dorchester had a population of 338 living in 149 of its 178 total private dwellings, a change of -6.9% from its 2016 population of 363. With a land area of 51.56 km 2 (19.91 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.6/km 2 (17.0/sq mi) in 2021. [4]