District of Valley-Bélair (Quebec)

The Quartier Valley-Bélair of the town of Quebec is resulting from the old town of Valley-Bélair.

History

The parish of Saint-Gerard-Majella (sometimes spelled Magella) founded in 1906 then is detached from Old-Lorette the and Saint-Ambroise-of-the-Young person-Lorette at the time of his canonical erection in 1909. The ecclesiastical authorities considered indeed that the residents of " the mountain with Bonhomme" had too much way to make to go to the church of to Saint-Ambroise-of-the-Young person-Lorette (who became Loretteville). It will give its name to the municipality of parish created the same year, which includes/understands already the same limits as the future town of Valley-Bélair. The parish is named according to Saint Gerard Majella (1726-1755), priest redemptorist, canonized in 1904, that is to say little of time before its creation. The inhabitants live industry of wood and hunting. A service of wash-house will come to be established there thereafter and will employ several inhabitants.

In 1914, the first country cottages are installed on the way which will become later the Boulevard Magpie-XI. Conflicts burst quickly between the rural ones of the Mountain with Catch and the residents temporary, amongst other things on the subject of taxations. In 1933, the municipality of Valley-Saint-Michel east creates in the debate starting from the territory of Saint-Gerard-Majella. The new town of Valley St-Michel remains at the beginning a town of summer, product of the new phenomenon of holiday. It is not besides that in 1951 qu ' a resident permanenent of the place was elected mayor, whereas before only residents of Quebec having a pied-à-terre with Valley-Saint-Michel had found themselves with the town hall.

In 1965, the municipality of Saint-Gerard-Majella becomes a city and its noun is modified for Bélair , of the name of the seigniory conceded in 1682 by the intendant Jacques de Meulles and the governor Febvre of the Guillaume Bonhomme Bar, which was also known formerly under the name of Bélair. Moreover, a sector of the city bore the name Bélair in recall of the core of the old homonymous municipality. The parish preserves the name of Saint-Gerard-Majella.

As well Bélair as Valley-Saint-Michel profit from a strong increase in the population at the time of the Second world war, as from 1939, whereas many civil inhabitants work with the military base and the close arms factories. After the war, holiday develops and brings its batch of new residents. The payments of constructions and dwellings laxists combined at prices of low grounds also lead poor residents of Quebec to come to settle there.

So much that the government of Quebec declares Bélair “underdeveloped”, which will become a major brake with its development, the financial institutions refusing to lend in order not to see their depreciated investment. When the city revises its payments of town planning later a few years, construction will begin again. The development of the military base of Valcartier will also contribute to the contribution of new residents and the residential development until the years 1970.

The development of new infrastructures to accommodate the residents is expensive, and the two cities are strongly involved in debt. A first merger plan with the Holy-Foy town of is not carried out. In order to reduce the doubled blooms, the municipality of Bélair will take its name of Valley-Bélair on January 1st, 1974, in consequence of the fusion occurred between Bélair and Valley-Saint-Michel. The new municipality is governed by the Law on the Cities and Cities and, as from the first general election in November of the same year, the number of the members of the Council is fixed at seven is a mayor and six advisers. A promise of the provincial government of a subsidy of a million dollars to erase the debt is not concretized, finances are embourbent and the city will be put briefly under supervision a few years after its creation.

Inhabitants of Valley-Bélair, countrymen close to the city in the beginning, and fruits of a chaotic course, are useful in years 1980 of head of Turkish with some representatives of the local mediums and humorists. However, following an important promotion campaign and with the slogan " Valley-Bélair, city of the nature" , of an improvement of the municipal infrastructures and a floral embellishment of the arteries, she knows with the beginning of the year 1990 an expansion of her population, partly thanks to Claude Beaudoin, mayor lasting nearly 20 years. She will pass thus from 11.000 inhabitants in 1971 to more than 22.000 inhabitants in 2002. To the municipal elections of 1998, the number of advisers passes to eight in order to reflect this increase. New infrastructures (schools, library, activities of leisures and cultural) are installation and several trade open there. Valley-Bélair becomes gradually suburbs where good number of young families come to settle, while often working outside the limits of the city.

Valley-Bélair was amalgamated at the town of Quebec with all the other cities of the Urban community on January 1st, 2002 at the time of a reorganization of the municipal entities to the size of the province of Quebec orchestrated by the provincial government pequist and forms part of the Laurentien district henceforth, also counting territories of the old towns of Cape-Red and Holy-Foy. Valley-Bélair counted at this time: 20176 inhabitants (census of 2001), figure adjusted with close to: 22000 inhabitants in 2002. Name Valley-Bélair however was preserved and it identifies a sector now corresponding to the territory of the old city of the same name.

Bars and discotheques

Tradesmen, companies and craftsmen

Coffees

Restaurants

Remarkable sites and monuments

Places and streets

the mountain is

Cours and lanes

Religious buildings

Private mansions

Houses of writers

Museums, rooms, theaters and places of exposures

Places of teaching

secondary School:

secondary School Odyssey.

Elementary schools:

Elementary school of the Chantarelle.
Elementary school of Now of wood.
Elementary school of Valley-Pretty the
Elementary school Jules-Émond
Elementary school Amédée-Boutin

Internal bonds

Town of Quebec
Valley-Bélair

External bonds

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