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{{Short description|Neighbourhood in Quebec City, Canada}}
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[[File:Localisation de Cap-Rouge dans Québec.svg|thumb|right|Cap-Rouge in Quebec City]][[Image:CapRouge church.JPG|thumb|Old Village's Church]]
'''Cap-Rouge''' ({{IPA|fr|kap ʁuʒ}}) is a [[List of former municipalities in Quebec|former city]] in central [[Quebec]], Canada,  since 2002 within the borough [[Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge]] in [[Quebec City]]. The site of the first attempted permanent French settlement in North America, [[Charlesbourg-Royal]], is located at the confluence of the [[Rivière du Cap Rouge]] and the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. Its population was 13,153 as of the [[Canada 2011 Census]].

==First permanent establishments==
In 1635, the first [[seigneurie]] was granted on the territory of Cape-Rouge, but revoked the following year by the [[Company of One Hundred Associates]]. However, by 1638 [[Paul Le Jeune]], a missionary Jesuit, had noted in ''[[The Jesuit Relations]]'' the presence of some families in the valley.<ref name='topony'>[http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=135532 Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée ''Cap-Rouge'']</ref> Between 1647 and 1652, the seigneuries of Maur, on the west, and Gaudarville, in the east, were established on the territory. From that moment, based on taxable citizens, the settlement on the lands of Cap-Rouge are established. The village formed is served by the parishes of [[Ancienne-Lorette]] in (1678) to the north; of [[Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures|Saint-Augustin]] in (1691) on the west; and of [[Sainte-Foy, Quebec|Sainte-Foy]] (1698) in the east.<ref name='page3'group='a'>Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée ''Cap-Rouge'' p.3</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Parc de la Plage-Jacques-Cartier.jpg|thumb|left|The beach of Plage Jacques Cartier and the cliffs of Cap-Rouge]]
The name of Cap-Rouge, meaning "red cape", comes from its cliffs facing the Saint-Lawrence river and made of [[schist]] rock bearing a reddish tint. The other main topographic feature of Cap-Rouge is the [[Rivière du Cap Rouge]] valley where are concentrated some historic buildings as well the archeological remains of a [[pottery]] workshop active from 1860 to 1892.<ref>{{cite journal |language=fr |date=1996 |title=Cap-Rouge : une ville, au naturel |url= http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/16062ac|journal=Continuité |issue=67 |pages=44–50 |publisher=Érudit |last1=Latouche |first1=Lyne |last2=Déry |first2=Jean |last3=Côté |first3=Alain |last4=Lebuis |first4=Francis |last5=Faucher |first5=Julie }}</ref> It is believed that until the end of its operations the workshop mainly used imported [[clay]] rather than the local one, which has a rather red hue.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archeologie.ville.quebec.qc.ca/sites/poterie-de-cap-rouge/poterie-de-cap-rouge-avantages-de-la-riviere-du-cap-rouge/ |title=Poterie de Cap-Rouge|language=fr|website=Ville de Québec }}</ref>

The Cap-Rouge area is located to the south of the Canadian Shield and [[Laurentian Mountains]], at the confluence of the geological regions of the [[Saint Lawrence Lowlands]] and of the northern [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachians]]. It mostly sits at the western foot of the [[Promontory of Quebec|Quebec promontory]], in the way of the Logan's Line - an inactive fracture in the Earth's crust first documented by [[William Edmond Logan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cgenarchive.org/queacutebec-town.html |title= Geoscape - Québec. Upper Town, Lower Town: A Major Geological Fault |website=Canadian Geoscience Education Network }}</ref>

==Attractions==
[[File:CapRouge Bridge.JPG|thumb|left|The railway trestle]]
In addition to its long history, the main attraction of Cap-Rouge is the towering [[Cap-Rouge trestle]] ({{langx|fr|Tracel}}) rail-road bridge. Built in 1907-1908, the steel [[Trestle bridge|trestle]] was constructed under the authority of the National Transcontinental as part of the [[National Transcontinental Railway]]. It spans 3,335 feet at an average of 172 feet above ground and is still in use today.

==Notable people==
*[[Laurent Torregrossa]] (born in 1964), painter
*[[Marie Philippe]], singer
*[[Jonathan Marchessault]], [[NHL]] player, [[Conn Smythe trophy]] winner

==See also==
*[[Charlesbourg-Royal]]
*[[French colonization of the Americas|History of French colonization of the Americas]]
*[[List of former municipalities in Quebec|List of former cities in Quebec]]

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