Coteau-du-Lac
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Coteau-du-Lac (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality.
The name of the town comes from the French word coteau which means "slope" and from its location on the north shore of Lake Saint Francis.[1] The National Historic Site of Canada of the Coteau-du-Lac canal is the location of the first canal lock system in North America. The city has an industrial park.
The population was 7,044 as of the 2016 Canadian Census.[2]
History
The place was mentioned in 1687 by Marquis de Denonville. His record stated that "Costeau du Lac is a place where one stopped on the way to the Rapides d'en Haut", referring to a small hillside (French: coteau) on the north side of the St. Lawrence River near the mouth of Lake Saint Francis (French: lac Saint-François).[3]
In 1779, the Coteau-du-Lac canal was constructed to bypass the numerous rapids between Lake Saint-Louis and Lake Saint-Francis. Two years later, a military detachment was stationed there. In 1789, its post office opened under the name Coteau-du-Lac.[3]
During the War of 1812, a fort was built to protect the canal. In 1832, the Parish of Saint-Ignace was created. The following year, the parish was civilly established under the name "Saint Ignace du Côteau du Lac". In 1845, it was formed into a municipality, but abolished in 1847. In 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Ignace-du-Côteau-du-Lac.[3]
In 1907, the Village Municipality of Côteau-du-Lac was formed out of Saint-Ignace-du-Côteau-du-Lac (orthography was later changed to "Coteau" without circumflex). These two entities merged again on 6 February 1982, to form the Municipality of Coteau-du-Lac, which changed statutes in 2007 to become a city.[3][4]
In mid-2013, around 120 people were temporarily evacuated, and two people died after an explosion in the local fireworks factory.[5]
In early April 2023, 3,672 people lost electric power for up to several days as the result of a massive power outage caused by an extended period of freezing rain in the region.[6]
Demographics
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6,720 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Local government
List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality):[9]
- Joseph Henri Paul Fernand Desforges (1982–1989)
- Pierre Chevrier (1989–1996)
- Robert Sauvé (1996–2013)
- Guy Jasmin (2013–2017)
- Andrée Brosseau (2017–present)
Education
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[10]
- École de Coteau-du-Lac (pavillons Académie-Wilson, de l'Éclusière, and Saint-Ignace)
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.[11]
- Evergreen Elementary and Forest Hill Elementary (Junior Campus and Senior campus) in Saint-Lazare or Soulanges Elementary School in Saint-Télesphore
Notable people
- Jules Fournier (1884-1918) was a Canadian writer and newspaper owner[12]
See also
References
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External links
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