Lacolle

Lacolle is a municipality of the regional Municipalité of county of Haut-Richelieu with the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Montérégie.

Lacolle was also one of the important places at the time of the revolts of 1838, because the English general John Colborne overcame the Patriots there. after having made burn many farms suitable for shelter rebels, in particular with the Meadow and Napierville. The rebellion taken end with the arrest of 1000 people of which 58 were banished in Australia or Jamaica and 12 hung high and court in Montreal.

It is also by Lacolle (via the Way of the Patriots, current road 223) which became the chief of the Patriots Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1838 to exile in the United States during a few years.

Municipal history

The municipality of Lacolle takes form with the annexation of the municipality of parish of Our-Lady-of-Mount-Carmel in 2001. However, the old municipality goes up acquires its autonomy in 1920 with its detachment with Saint-Bernard-with-Lacolle.

Origin of the name

The name would come from the seigniory conceded in Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu in 1743 which bore the name of the Adhesive then. This last name, would come, according to a whimsical assumption, owing to the fact that the river crossing the territory was to identify R. with the Adhesive on the charts of the time. This strange name would be connected to the fact that navigation was particularly difficult, because the ships stuck literally to the bottom. Thereafter, the two components of the name will have been suddenly welded, which will officialize with the opening of the post office of Lacolle in 1832

Another assumption wants that the term “sticks”, as old French, was used to indicate a small hill. Moreover, a small eminence is drawn up close to Richelieu, with a few kilometers in the south of the village.

As regards the French locality of the Adhesive in Provence, this name was primarily used to evoke the border post with the the United States.

Our-Lady-of-mount-Carmel

Also separated from Saint-Bernard-with-Lacolle at the end of the XIXe century, this city was initially known under the name of Cantic what represents the first part of Can ada and the last syllable of Atlan' tic' , because the parish owes its birth with the Canada Atlantic Railway . It is in 1913 that the municipality adopts the current name, name already carried by the parish since 1908.

Demography

A short demographic outline of the new municipality of Lacolle.

1986 : 2.218 inhabitants

1991: 2.227 inhabitants

1996: 2.494 inhabitants

2001: 2.402 inhabitants

2006: 2.512 inhabitants

Municipalities bordering

Sources

Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bond

Official site of the Municipality of Lacolle

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