Our-Lady-of-Lake

Our-Lady-of-Lake is a city in the regional Municipalité of county of the Témiscouata to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Low-Saint-Laurent. The population of Our-Lady-of-Lake is approximately 2200 inhabitants. The city is built in amphitheater in the middle of the Valley of Témiscouata. The geographical location of Our-Lady-of-Lake offers to its visitors splendid panoramas and a unspoilable view on the Lake Témiscouata. Moreover, the city is the chief town of the regional Municipalité of county and one finds there in particular the hospital, the cross bar and the police station of Témiscouata. The arena of Our-Lady-of-Lake also is recognized like largest and best equipped with the area.

Tourism

The cycle track Small Témis which skirts the banks of the lake reveals its lake and the island surrounded by nature. The amateurs of camp-site and nautical activities will be been useful, bus Our-Lady-of-Lake is very designated to devote themselves to these activities in summer season. At each year, the “party of the hot dog” proceeds and attracts there more than 10000 people on the beach skirting the lake.

Pont de freezes

In winter, a bridge of ice is set up on the Lake Témiscouata and allows, as well with the motorists as with the pedestrians, to cross bank between Our-Lady-of-Lake and the parish which faces him: Saint-Juste-of-lake. In summer, the cross bar Corégone connects two banks.

Our-Lady-of-lake “garden City”

Equipped of a rich and generous nature, Our-Lady-of-Lake is named recently “Garden City” and has an flower-emblem “the Lady of the Lake”, a variety of hémérocalle especially conceived for the occasion. You will be able to admire “the Lady of the Lake” in some selected gardens of Damelacois and Damelacoises, in love with the plants and the flowered gardens.

History

Initially created like municipality of parish in 1871, under the name “Turning-of-Lake”, two years after the parish which receives its first priest in 1861, Our-Lady-of-Lake was going to obtain the statute of city in 1968 in consequence of a fusion with the homonymous municipality of village established in 1949. The name “Turning-of-Lake” is explained because of its geographical location which made the place of it par excellence where to accost and penetrate the earths.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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

External bond

Official site Our-Lady-of-Lake

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