Stone (Quebec)

Evocations

These toponyms evoke the first lords of the places (the seigniory known as of Vaudreuil, set up in 1702): Philippe of ''' Stone ''', born about 1643 with Vaudreuille (in the district of Carcassonne, close to Revel Saint-Ironwood and Cabanial, in Languedoc, in the current department of the Aude) and its wife, Louise-Elisabeth de Joybert of Soulanges , like their son Pierre de Rigaud of Vaudreuil-Cavagnal.

Rigaud became an extremely known name in French Canada, by a Québécois popular song (of 1958), entitled It is in r' coming from Stone and telling the history of a man subjugated by a woman with the return of this place: it was taken by it of an eternal hocquet… and had to accept the advances and the proposal that she made him.

Attractions

This Municipalité has a population of approximately 6.900 inhabitants. Its greater tourist attraction is its rustic village just as the mount Rigaud , its paths pedestrian or of horsemanship… and its small ski station . This small " mont" (47 km ²), located at the south-west of Oka, to the west the whole of the Collines montérégiennes limits.

Stone is also a place of pilgrimage by its Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Lourdes , set up by the Collège Le Bourget , a college of private education, catholic, established in 1850 for the boys but become mixed during the decade 1960. In this college, several people now re-elected studied, coming from everywhere with the Quebec, the Ontario or the New England, in particular.

A Croix enlightened on the top of the mountain is visible the night. Lastly, the Rigaud mount contains a famous field of round stones, the Champ of guérêts or Champ of potatos , whose origin was initially explained by a religious tale: a farmer having there, said one, plowed his ground one Sunday, was punished by it because the potatos (potatoes) that it sowed there pushed so that they were transformed into stones! Actually, it is about a subglacial moraine: pieces of rocks which a glacier tore off with its bed, the rock base of the Canadian Bouclier, pieces which it reduced and rounded while rolling above, them transporting and the loser in this basin, a few thousands of years ago, at the end of the Glaciation of Wisconsin.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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

External bonds

Activity to be made in summer on the mount Stone
Official site of the town of Stone
Official site of the College Le Bourget

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