Saint-François-Xavier-with-Viger is a municipality of the regional Municipalité of county of River-of-Wolf to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Low-Saint-Laurent. Built in the heights of the mounts Notre-Dame (the Appalachian Mountains), the village offers a remarkable panorama on the plain of the St. Lawrence and the mountains of Charlevoix, in particular starting from the 7th western rank.

History

Although colonists were already installed on the territory of Saint-François-Xavier-of-Viger worms 1870 and that a parish was created this year, this one was to be removed in 1892, because of the quantitative weakness of the local population. She was to be set up again in 1948, quickly followed municipal erection in 1950, in consequence of the respective detachment of part of the territory of the municipalities of Saint-Épiphane and Saint-Hubert-of-River-of-Wolf. The municipal name pays homage to the abbot François-Xavier Guay, born in 1834, serving first of the parish, 1869 to 1872, and cleaned of Saint-Épiphane, 1874 to 1876. Name as well parochial as municipal also evokes Denis-Benjamin Viger (1774-1861). Saint-François-Xavier-of-Viger is located partly in the canton of Viger, proclaimed in 1861.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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