Shawinigan-south

Shawinigan-South is an old city of the Quebec, located at 1 km in the south of Shawinigan, with the head of the falls of the same name, on the edges of the Saint-Maurice, this city of the Mauricie was born because of industrial rise of Shawinigan Falls.

Indeed, the promise of a great prosperity attracted on bank is Saint-Maurice river of the inhabitants of Our-Lady-of-Mount-Carmel, more in south-east, the beginning of the 20th century. Detached from the parish of Our-Lady-of-Mount-Carmel, Our-Lady-of-the-Presentation-in Almaville was the subject of a canonical erection in 1914, and of a civil recognition the same year.

March 18th, 1912, the municipality of the village of Almaville was officially created, whereas that of the parish of Our-Lady-of-the-Presentation-in Almaville, was born two years later. The latter, after having taken the name of municipality of the parish of Almaville in 1946, was attached to that of the village of Shawinigan-South in 1953, denomination which it had received in 1948. Shawinigan-south obtained the statute of city in 1961.

The primitive denomination of Almaville comes from a suggestion of the priest of Our-Lady-of-Mount-Carmel at the time of the official recognition of the parish, first Sunday of the Avent where one sings the antienne Alma Redemptoris MATER , Alma MATER meaning feeder mother.

The parishioners, believer whom them locality was promised with brilliant future, asked for the addition of the suffix - city. However, the name of Shawinigan-South will be essential at the end of the Années 1940. An attempt to modify the municipal denomination Valley-of-Fall about it in 1987 did not know concrete continuations at Shawiniganais.

During the year the 2001 government of Quebec, directed by Lucien Bouchard then Bernard Landry, decided to accelerate the movement of regrouping of municipalities undertaken during the years 1990. The principal goal of this reorganization was to attach the suburbs of the big cities to those. More than two hundred municipalities disappeared from the kind on January 1st, 2002, in spite of the opposition of certain groups of citizens coming from suburbs. One thus attended the creation of the new Town of Shawinigan by the fusion of the old city and the towns of Grand-Mère and Shawinigan-South, of the municipality of Lake-with-the-Tortoise, the village of Saint-Georges, the parishes of Saint-Gerard-of-Laurentides and of Saint-Jean-of-Piles and the territories not organized of Lake-of-Five and of Lake-Wapizagonke.

Before seeing itself amalgamating in the new Town of Shawinigan, Shawinigan-South counted approximately 12500 inhabitants.

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Names and places of Quebec

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