Drummondville
Drummondville is a Québécois Ville located in the regional Municipalité of county of Drummond and the administrative area of the Center-of-Quebec. It is used as chief town with these two last.
History
Drummondville, in the past Drummond , was founded in June 1815 by the lieutenant-colonel Frederick George Heriot on the edges of the Saint-François. The purpose of this establishment was to on the spot fix the soldiers demobilized following the Guerre of 1812 against the the United States and to exert a vigilant monitoring of one of the natural access roads in order to prevent all new invasion of the latter.But the city did not take really its rise that at the time of the establishment of the hydroelectric station of the Hemmings Fall in 1920, which brought the beginning of the industrial growth.
In median position, on southern bank of the River the St. Lawrence, between Montreal and Quebec and between Sherbrooke and Three-Rivers, Drummondville is a road junction and owed with this position its textile industry which declined, like its population anglo-Protestant woman. As minor regional center, Drummondville has a CÉGEP which drains the youthful population of the area.
Origin of the name
The town of Drummondville was named in the honor of Sir Gordon Drummond, general during the Guerre of 1812, administrator of the High-Canada of 1813 with 1815 and temporary administrator of British North America of 1815 with 1816.
Municipal chronology
- June 29th 1815: Creation of the town of Drummondville.
- 1955 : Annexation of the town of Saint-Joseph and the municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptist.
- 1966 : Annexation of Drummondville-West.
- 1982 : Fusion of Drummondville and Drummondville-South
- 1993: Annexation of the municipality of Grantham.
- July 7th 2004: fusion enters the towns of Dummondville and Saint-Nicéphore, the municipality of Saint-Charles-of-Drummond and the municipality of parish of Saint-Joachim-with-Courval to form the town of Drummondville .
Tourism
Called Capital of the Expression and the Traditions , the city has tourism centered on the cultures of yesterday and today. Principal attractions are the Fantastic Légendes, Nostalgia and the Mondial of the Cultures (in the past the World Festival of folklore ).The city is also surrounded by many festivals of summer, of the Québécois Village of Antan, of the Moulin to wool of Ulverton and several huts to sugar. One finds there also the Drummond Motor-racing track.
Twinning
They were born in Drummondville
- Louise Bédard, choreographer
- Yvan Cournoyer, hockey player
- Michel Cusson, type-setter
- Gilbert Dionne, hockey player
- Marcel Dionne, hockey player
- Jessica Dubé, Olympian
- Bernard Gosselin, scenario writer
- Norman Jutras, lawyer, politicking
- Kaïn, group of music
- Patrick Lalime, hockey player
- Yvon Lambert, hockey player
- Michel Lauzière, humorist
- Bernard Lemaire, founder of Cascades
- Daniel Lemire, humorist
- Rita Letendre, painter
- Gaston Mandeville, composer-songwriter, interpret
- Louis Morissette, humorist
- Kim Poirier, Actrice
- Daniel Robichaud, radio presenter
- Patrick Senécal, writer
- Like Saint-Germain, professor, principal, and initiator of movements of young people.
- the Three Agreements, popular music group
- Karine Vanasse, actress
Municipalities amalgamated with Drummondville
1888
- northern Quatier
- Saint-Pierre
- Ferland
- Saint-Joseph-with-Grantham
- Celanese
- Saint-Jean-Baptist-of-Drummond
- Grantham-West
- Drummondville-West
- Drummondville-South
- Saint-Nicéphore
- Saint-Charles-of-Drummond
- Saint-Joachim-with-Courval
Municipalities bordering
Sources
- Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
- Commission of toponymy of Quebec
- municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts
See too
-
List of the mayors of Drummondville
- Kaïn
External bonds
-
Official site of the town of Drummondville
- History on the area of Drummondville
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