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Named in 1880 by Oblate missionary Father Jules Decorby, the community's founder, St. Lazare was incorporated as a village on December 31, 1949. [7] [8] It ceased on January 1, 2015, as a result of its provincially mandated amalgamation with the RM of Ellice and the Village of St. Lazare to form the Rural Municipality of Ellice – Archie. [9]
The 1914 Saint John street railway strike (sometimes called the Saint John street railwaymen's strike) [219] was a strike by workers on the street railway system in the city which lasted from July 22 to 24, 1914, with rioting by Saint John inhabitants occurring on July 23 and 24. The strike was important for shattering the image of Saint John ...
Saint-Lazare is graced by significant public funding for its ambitious recreational projects. Bedard Park in the centre of the town is a relatively large park equipped with a small water park, a grass field, three baseball diamonds, and tennis courts. In the winter two hockey rinks and an ice skating oval are added. Another large, multi-use ...
This article is a list of historic places in St. John County, New Brunswick entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. While the vast majority of listings are within the city of Saint John , there are a few in outlying rural portions of the county.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St-Lazare had a population of 233 living in 100 of its 104 total private dwellings, a change of -9.3% from its 2016 population of 257. With a land area of 2.73 km 2 (1.05 sq mi), it had a population density of 85.3/km 2 (221.1/sq mi) in 2021.
Westwood High School is an English-language high school located in St. Lazare and Hudson in Quebec, roughly 24 km west of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The school is administered by the Lester B. Pearson School Board and is divided into a junior campus in Saint-Lazare for secondary I and II and a senior campus in Hudson for secondary III, IV, and V.
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.
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.