Lac-Etchemin, Quebec

Coordinates: 46°24′N 70°30′W / 46.400°N 70.500°W / 46.400; -70.500
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Lac-Etchemin
418 and 581
Highways R-276
R-277
Websitewww.municipalite.
lac-etchemin.qc.ca

Lac-Etchemin is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,028 as of 2021. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake, at the centre of the municipality. "Etchemin" means "men, human beings" in Abenaki language.

Lac-Etchemin is home to winter resort Mont Orignal and the birthplace of controversial religious Community of the Lady of All Nations.

History

The area near Etchemin Lake was first described in 1828 as lovely by the surveyor Emmanuel. A few years later, in 1835, the region sees its first settler, Commissary General Sir Randolph Isham Routh KCB (1782–1858), who was given a land grant of 9,000 acres (36 km2) for his services to the Crown.

Sir Randolph Isham Routh's Lac Etchemin Summer Residence 1838, painted by his second wife, Marie Louise Taschereau (1811–1891)

The new municipality of Lac-Etchemin was created in 2001 following the amalgamation of the city of Lac-Etchemin and the parish of Sainte-Germaine-du-Lac-Etchemin.

People linked to Lac-Etchemin

See also

References

  1. ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 372118". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
  2. ^ a b "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 28053". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
  3. ^ a b "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Lac-Etchemin, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec". 9 February 2022.

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