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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.
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.
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 ...
The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.
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.
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]
Beaumont (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a municipality of about 2,900 people 10 km east of Lévis, next to the Saint Lawrence River, in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is a mostly rural community, with most people working in Lévis as there are no major businesses in Beaumont.
Très-Saint-Rédempteur (French pronunciation: [tʁɛ sɛ̃ ʁedɑ̃ptœʁ], lit. ' Most Holy Redeemer ') is a municipality located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 978. The municipality includes the town of Saint-Redempteur, and lies south of Rigaud ...