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' Saint-Laurent of the Orléans Island ') is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, part of the L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality. It is situated on the south side of Orléans Island. Prior to June 6, 1998 it was known simply as Saint-Laurent. Saint-Laurent has been twinned with Tourouvre in France since ...
Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans the "La Chalouperie" museum at the maritime park and the Île d'Orléans marina; Sainte-Pétronille the island's chocolate factory and the painter's house Horatio Walker; Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans the Félix Leclerc space and the Bellevue with the giant sculpture of Félix Leclerc.
The Moulin river flows at the bottom of Anse de l'Église, on the northwest bank of the Chenal des Grands Voiliers (which is crossed by the Saint-Laurent river) in Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans. Here, the sandstone is around 0.24 kilometres (0.15 mi) at low tide and the Chenal des Grands Voiliers is 2.95 metres (9 ft 8 in) wide. A marina ...
Its seat is Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans. The population in the 2016 census was 7,082 people. [3] The RCM consists solely of the Île d'Orléans, an island in the Saint Lawrence River just east of Quebec City. It is the smallest RCM in Quebec in terms of land area (though not in total area including water).
In 1661, l'Île d'Orléans' first parish was formed and it was known until 1679 as Paroisse de l'Île. The parish municipality was first established in 1845 as La Sainte-Famille, abolished in 1847, and reestablished in 1855. The article 'La' disappeared in the 19th century. [1] [4] A post office named Sainte-Famille-d'Orléans was opened in ...
The Maheu river flows at the bottom of the Rade Maheu in Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, that is to the limit of Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans (northeast side) and Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans (southwest side). This harbour is spanned a hundred meters further by the route 368 bridge.
The Parish of Saint-François-de-Sales was founded in 1679, named after Francis de Sales (1567-1622) and calling to mind Francois Berthelot, Comte de Jouy and de Saint-Laurent, representative of Paris in parliament and Seigneur of Île d'Orléans (1675) at the time the parish was established. It was also known as just Saint-François, and maps ...
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.