Saint-Remi is a city in the regional Municipalité of county of the Garden-with-Napierville with the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Montérégie.

Origin of the name

The municipality was called Saint-Remi-of-Napierville before being called Saint-Remi. The origin of the Saint-Remi denomination remains on the other hand nebulous. This name could come from Daniel de Rémy de Courcelles, former governor of the News-France. There is also an evocation with the Remi archbishop of Rheims which baptized the king of the Francs Clovis 1st.

Geography

Saint-Remi is located at the south-west of the province of Quebec, with ten kilometers in the south of the town of Montreal.

Saint-Remi is in the extreme North-West of the regional municipality of county of Garden-of-Napierville.

History

The territory starts to develop in 1828 with the creation of the parish of Saint-Remi-of-Lasalle, because the territory belonged before to the Seigneurie of the Room.

In 1845, the municipality is created. Thereafter, the municipality will become officially a city in 1949.

The current town of Saint-Remi results from the fusion occurred in 1975 of the city and the village of Saint-Remi, itself founded in 1859.

Personalities

• Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, (place of its burial and source of its family), former Prime Minister of Canada.
• Stephan Gendron, mayor of Huntingdon, radio presenter.

Education

• Elementary school Saint-Viateur
• Elementary school secondary Clothilde-Raymond
• School Pierre-Bédard

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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