Saint-Honore-of-Témiscouata

Saint-Honore-with-Témiscouata is a municipality in the regional Municipalité of county of the Témiscouata to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Low-Saint-Laurent.

Located on the heights of the Mounts Notre-Dame, on the watershed between the catchment area of the River the St. Lawrence and that of the River Midsummer's Day, Saint-Honore suffers from a hard and windy climate, with strong snow-covered precipitations, not very favourable for agriculture. The territory of the municipality is had a presentiment of to accommodate several projects of wind farms, including one proposed by the TransCanada company and having to comprise nearly 90 wind mills of strong power.

History

Crossed by the Way of the Bearing connecting the valley of the River the St. Lawrence to the Acadie, the territory of Saint-Honore accommodates its first colonists about 1837. In 1853, a first mass is celebrated on the territory, which then counts some families dispersed along the Chemin of the Bearing. The municipality is civilly set up on February 24th, 1874, under the name of Municipalité of the Canton of Armand. The railroad of Témiscouata, built in 1887, supports the development of the municipality largely.

The efforts of the government to counter the economic crisis of 1929 give a new rise to the municipality. The premiums with the clearing, the subsidies for the construction of houses, barns and ways support the occupation of a territory however not very accessible for agriculture. The population of Saint-Honore reaches a top in the middle of the years 1950 with 1.735 inhabitants.

With the end of the premiums to colonization, the inhabitants left with themselves give up a not very profitable agriculture gradually. Those which persist in cultivating the ground despite everything will give up one day for lack of changing: many young people have indeed left the municipality for 50 years. The construction of the Road transcanadienne (road 185) in 1973, with 2 kilometers with the variation of the village, precipitates the decline of the marketing activities which one formerly found at the village, along the old way going back to 1861. Today, the population of Saint-Honore is lower than 800 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 Saint-Honore-with-Témiscouata

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