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Saint-Anicet is a municipality of parish in the regional Municipalité of county of the High-Saint-Laurent to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Montérégie.

According to the official gazette one counts there 2.732 inhabitants and practically the double in summer.

Commission of toponymy of written Quebec: " This municipality takes seat in the Québécois territory, in the north of Godmanchester and the south-west of Salaberry-with-Valleyfield, on southern bank of the lake Saint-François, to a hundred kilometers of Montreal. One knows only few precise facts of the life of saint Anicet, pope from 155 to 166, pontiff probably of Syrian origin, which would have died martyr and whose festival is celebrated on April 17th. Two other Anicet, martyrized with died in IVe century, appear in Roman martyrologe. What one knows with certainty, it is that this denomination was retained to identify the mission founded in 1810, officially set up in parish in 1827 as Saint-Anicet-of-Godmanchester, the latter component specifying the canton in which it is located. Thereafter, the shortened form Saint-Anicet will identify a post office created in 1851, just as a municipality of parish established in 1845, abolished in 1847 and restored in 1855. The history of the places begins in 1788 with land surveying from the territory from the canton from Godmanchester. Of the Irishmen and French Canadians found the locality about 1820 and two small agglomerations are formed, Cazaville and the War. The great quality of the local forest allows the development of a forestry economics. This one will be isolated with the profit of agriculture about 1850. Nowadays, agriculture and tourism industry constitute the two principal poles of the anicetoise economic activity. The two names the most famous associates with Saint-Anicet remain those of the cardinal Paul-Emile Leger, born in 1904 with Salaberry-of-Valleyfield and deceased in Montreal in 1991, and of his/her brother, Jules, (1913-1980), born in Saint-Anicet. This last occupied the general governor position of Canada of 1974 to 1979. The native soil of this famous citizen, splendid corner of country montérégien, was born thanks to the courage and with the determination of a group of Acadian which settled there before 1795."

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Sources

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

External bond

Official site Saint-Anicet

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