Salaberry-of-Valleyfield

Salaberry-with-Valleyfield is a city of the Quebec, located in the regional Municipalité of county (MRC) of Beauharnois-Salaberry and in the administrative area of the Montérégie.

The city, such as it is today, is the result of an annexation of the town of Saint-Timothée and municipality of Grande-Ile at the time of the series of municipal fusions of 2002.

Origin of the name

This toponym evokes first of all the lieutenant-colonel Charles-Michel d' Irumberry of ''' Salaberry ''' (a Canadian of patronymic line Basque), winner against the troops of the American army in the battle of Châteauguay, in 1813.

The second term ( Valleyfield : literally, field of the valley) is English and does not have any relationship with this historical character: he was retained by compromise, to satisfy the many english-speaking of the place, at the time of the choice of the toponym (before 1875), of which the owner of the Mill with paper, Alexander Buntin, which made a point of making evoke similar mills located in Scotland, the Valleyfield Mills (in Penicuik, Midlothian). This term, Valleyfield , will underline also the pastoral character of the landscape. (And the Moulin with paper will become, in 1875, Moulin with cotton … and, today, large Hôtel .)

Gentilé

This word Valleyfield , translated into French while passing through Latin, will only determine with him gentilé the: the citizens of Salaberry-of-Valleyfield are (officially since 1980) campivallensiens , as already named them in 1913 the historian future canon, Lionel Groulx, and its fellow-members eclesiastic.

Attractions

Beautiful large plain surrounded by water , on the edges of a River the St. Lawrence formant ''' the Lake Saint-François ''' and nutritive the channels , Salaberry-of-Valleyfield accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the summer 1974 and organizes each year (since 1938) the Regattas of Valleyfield , more the speedboat great event in North America.

From March 9th to 11th 2007, Salaberry-of-Valleyfield also the special Olympic Games besides 2007 at the School of the Saint-François Bay accommodated. The competitions of interior hockey took place in the gymnasium of the school, those of Figure skating and Speed skating, with the municipal Aréna. (The tests of Ski touring took place with the mount Rigaud.)

The city has in its center a architectural jewel in the Basilica-cathedral Holy-Cecile of Salaberry-of-Valleyfield , located in the middle of the downtown area. With a sight on the old channel, the city offers from now on a tourist attraction appraisal of the holiday makers, that is to say the visit many ''' sailing ''', coming to wet the anchor in bay, in front of the hundreds of idlers.

Economy

On the economic plan, agriculture and industries occupy the foregrounds. Moreover, about half of the inhabitants work in 2% of the companies. Largest of these last is the CEZinc factory, subsidiary of the multinational company minère Xstrata since 2006.

Education

Since Salaberry-of-Valleyfield has nearly 40.000 inhabitants, one finds several institutions there on his territory. The city counts 12 elementary schools, two secondary schools (secondary School Edgar-Hébert and secondary École Baie Saint-François), a Cégep (Cégep de Valleyfield), a Training center for adults, two Professional training centres, as well as an anglophone elementary school.

Évêché


Municipalities bordering

Famous characters

  • Armand Frappier (1904-1991), doctor, microbiologist, director-founder of in particular the Institute of microbiology and hygiene of Montreal (1938-1974), born with Salaberry-of-Valleyfield, that it affectionnait and where it always preserved a residence, on the lake Saint-François, with the Frappier Point. This city, like others, dedicated a street éponyme to him, on a purely posthumous basis, like its principal Public library.

  • Jean Ouimet, politician and president of Naviga-City.

Sources

  • Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
  • Commission of toponymy of Quebec
  • municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts
  • Dr. Armand Frappier, ''' a dream, a fight: Autobiography ''', Presses of the University of Quebec, QR31.F7A31992, ISBN 2-7605-0703-3

External bonds

  • Official site Salaberry-with-Valleyfield
  • Regattas of Valleyfield
  • the Circuit of the Peasant
  • Irunberri

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