Three-Rivers

Three-Rivers is a city of the Quebec (Canada), located on northern bank of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence at the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Maurice in the middle of the Quebec. It is halfway between Quebec and Montreal. Three-rivers is the chief town of the administrative area of the Mauricie and a évêché catholic. It is also the city centers of a metropolitan region of census whose population was of 137 507 inhabitants in 2001.

Three-rivers is the second older city of Quebec.

History

In the beginning, the site of Three-Rivers was attended by autochtones of the big family algonquine.

In 1535 (on October 12th), the explorer Jacques Cartier will describe the site. It names the Rivière St-Maurice river of Fouez (of Faith?) and makes set up a cross on the point of the St-Quentin island. In 1599, the Dupont-Engraved captain will name it: “Three-Rivers” because of an illusion created by the delta formed by the islands.

It is at the request of Capitanal, a chief Algonquin whose father had fought at the sides of Samuel de Champlain that the latter elected Nicolas Goupil known as Laviolette for the foundation of a dwelling to the locality of the Three-Rivers to facilitate the trade of it. Parties on July 1st, 1634 of Quebec, Laviolette and its men arrived on July 4th, issued day of the foundation. Does that make, as aucuns affirm it, of Champlain the true founder of the city rather than Laviolette? It would be as to affirm that it is Henri IV which founded Quebec.

Initially counter of trade, Three-Rivers then will develop triple vocation which it will preserve at the wire of the centuries: sit of Gouvernement, town of education and city Industrielle.

Sit of a regional government starting from 1665, Three-Rivers will know the Conquest Britannique but did not suffer from it like the town of Quebec, and even a short American occupation, which will end in the defeat of the “Bostonnais”, with the doors of the city, in 1776.

With the passing of years, Three-Rivers will consolidate its vocation of regional chief while becoming the seat of a legal district (1792) and of one évêché (1852).

In the plan of education, teaching missionaries will present on the site of Three-Rivers as of 1617, i.e. before even the foundation of the city. With the arrival of the nuns Ursulines, in 1697, a first house of teaching will be born and several others will follow, to the opening of the Université of Quebec to Three-Rivers, in 1969.

With the economic plan, after the era of the runners of the wood and the trade of the fur, Three-Rivers will become industrial town when will start production the Forges of the Saint-Maurice, founded in 1733 per Mr. de Francheville. This foundry where one manufactured balls of gun, stoves out of cast iron, like various ustensils and accessories of kitchen, represented during one long period the economic main activity of the city. A hundred years later, with the forestry development of the Valley of the Saint-Maurice, Three-Rivers will shelter sawmills initially, then finally paper factories. The transport of the wood blocks was then facilitated by the Saint-Maurice river which made it possible to convey the resource of its cut to the factory, by floating. Thus the techniques of drave and the many draveurs became famous working there. Thereafter, Three-Rivers became the capital of paper.

XXe century

The terrible fire which devastates Three-Rivers in 1908 destroys the major part of the old city, saving only one ten buildings dating from the French Régime. The monastery of the Ursulines and the manor of Tonnancour are fortunately saved. That involves a refitting of the city, of which the widening and rectification of the streets. Moreover, this fire supports the advent of new companies, of which that of the textile which encourages the arrival of new peasants.

As from the years 1960, Three-Rivers will diversify its economic base while misant on collegial and university education, just as on the cultural activity(AP) and tourist. On this subject, the city can be praised to have kept alive and radiating its downtown area, which shelters an intense cultural activity, to which belonged the International festival of poetry. It is also a town of leisure and sport, which presents each year an automobile Large-Price to international dimension.

The Old Three-Rivers is issued historical district in 1964.

In 1985, the International festival of poetry is created by a team around Gaston Bellemare.

In 2002, the towns of Cape-of-the-Madeleine, Saint-Marthe-of-Cape, Saint-Louis-of-France, Three-River-West, as well as the municipality of Point-of-Lake, was amalgamated at the town of Three-Rivers, thus dissolving MRC of Francheville.

Origin of the name

The origin of the name of Three-Rivers, which completion date of the 16th century, is due in fact to an optical illusion. This name refers to the 3 channels indeed that the Rivière Saint-Maurice form with his mouth with the the St. Lawrence while running out between two islands.

Chronology trifluvienne

1535 : October 7th, Jacques Cartier plant a cross on the point of the Island St-Quentin, but no establishment is projected in the short run. Amerindians pertaining to various nations occupy already the surroundings.
1633 : The colonist Jacques Hertel receives, one year before the foundation of the village, the first ground concession of the locality of the Three-Rivers.
1634 : A few months after the foundation, the first two Jesuits Jacques Buteux and Paul Lejeune settle in the village.
1637 : Birth, on October 21st, of the first trifluvien, Michel Godefroy, wire of Jean Godefroy and Marie Leneuf.
1665 : News-France is divided into three regional governments: Quebec , Three-Rivers and Montreal . Pierre Boucher is the first governor of the Three-Rivers.
1722 : The Bégon intendant authorizes the behavior of a government contract at the edge of the river at every Friday.
1752 : Major fire which lasts from May 17th to 23rd. The assessment is heavy: the palisade, the monastery and the vault of the Ursulines, and 45 houses, which represents an important part of the places.
1760 - 1765: Consequence of the Treated of Paris, Canada becomes a Britannique colony and, so one carries out the abolition of the regional government of Three-Rivers. The province of Quebec is henceforth divided into two districts: Quebec and Montreal. From 1760 to 1765 the French governor of the Three-Rivers is replaced by an English military governor. The passage is done carefully, Burton does not seek to make the life difficult in Trifluviens and in spite of certain restrictions this military government is, altogether, only one prolongation of the French mode.
1775 : Opening of the first post office of Three-Rivers on the street Of the River. Samuel Sills is the first postmaster.
1776 : From February 8th to June 8th, Three-Rivers is a city of the United States. The whole finishes with the defeat of the Bostonnais at the time of the Bataille of the Three-Rivers.
1792 : Creation of a legal district of the Low-Canada to Three-Rivers, which gives again to him a statute of pivot of its area.
1792 : Three-rivers elects its first deputy, John Lees. It will occupy this station at the assembly of Low-Canada until 1807.
1797: Delivery of the first fire pump (pump " with bras") ordered in England (October 16th).
1822 : Entry according to the prison. It is the architect François Baillargé of Quebec which is the project superintendent. It will be until 1986 (before becoming a museum) the oldest prison always in function in North America.
1845 : Three-rivers becomes a municipality.
1847 : The city is henceforth connected to the rest of the world by the telegraph.
1854 : Creation of the Company of Equitable Fire, a brigade for the fire control.
1855 : Abolition of the mode seigneurial and creation of the town of Three-Rivers , the municipalities of parish of the Visitation-of-the-Point-of-Lake , Saint-Maurice , Holy-Marie-Madeleine-of-Cape-of-the-Madeleine and Three-Rivers during the first municipal cutting of Quebec (July 1st).
1854 : The Compagnie of Gas of the Three-Rivers ensures the lighting of the public places of the city. The reverberators are very few and rather unequal lighting. It is about an initiative of a group of influential people of the city, but the whole is done under the monitoring of the council of city.
1856 : Serious fire destroying 44 houses.
1857 : The official act of incorporation of the town of Three-Rivers is sanctioned (June 10th). The city can consequently obtain one constitution to the measurement of its needs. Official name is Cité of the Three-Rivers . Four districts are found: St-Louis , Notre-Dame , St-Philippe and co.-Ursule .
1858 : Inauguration of the Cathedral of the Immaculate-Design of Three-Rivers realized according to the plans of the architect Victor Bourgeau. Work had begun in 1854.
1860: Installation of four fire pumps (with vapor) fixed located in strategic places of the city. A few years later, of immense water tanks will be hidden close to the pumps.
1866 : A committee charged to promote means of fighting against the disease created by the council of city issues the obligation to transport deaths in hearses.
1872 : The Compagnie of aqueduct of the Three-Rivers builds the first network of aqueduct of the city. One uses tree trunks hollow and joined with mortar… The results are not very convincing, the operation being of a low effectiveness.
1875 : Appearance of the names of the streets to the corners of the principal intersections. The foreigners will not have to ask for the name of the streets any more.
1876 : Inauguration of the first railway station of Three-Rivers by the Quebec, Montreal Ottawa & Western Company which is responsible for the rail link of Three-Rivers in Quebec and Montreal.
1876 : Construction of a system of aqueduct managed by the municipality. The pumping station is on western bank of the St-Maurice close to the river and the pumps are activated by a steam engine. Cast iron pipes now are used.
1877 : In April, the city creates a Brigade of permanent Police force and Fire . They are the beginnings the current police service and firemen of the city.
1887 : The company Bell starts to install tens of posts in the city to allow the establishment of a telephone system.
1887 : Beginning of the application of the plan of installation of the sewerage system of the city. This plan was carried out by F. - X. Berlinguet.
1889 : Official appearance of the civic numbers of addresses on the doors of the houses.
1890 : Beginning of the electrification of the streets of Three-Rivers (July 28th). The electricity used for the lighting of the streets comes from a power station with vapor located at the edge of the St-Maurice, that is to say with the foot of the current Duplessis bridge.
1890 : Visit of the Count de Paris and his son, the Duke Of Orleans. It are received by the Ursulines (October 26th).
1897 : Creation of the North Shore Power Company which will make it possible to extend the electrification of the city. The powerplant of St-Narcisse (on the river Batiscan) will feed the town of Three-Rivers by the first network of cables with high voltage of the Britanique empire.
1901 : A steel bridge replaces from now on the wood bridges which connected Three-Rivers and the Cape-of-the-Madeleine.
1904 : The municipality of parish of Saint-Louis-of-France is detached from Saint-Maurice (January 4th).
1905 : One replaces the steam engine by electrical motors at the pumping station of the aqueduct.
1906 : An electric new line of drive coming from the Shawinigan Water and Power makes it possible Three-Rivers to multiply by ten its industrial potential. This line will allow the arrival of major players of industry: Wabasso Knitting machine (1907), modernized rebuilding of the Canada Iron Foundry (1909), Wayagamack (1912), Tidewater Shipbuilding Company (1915) and International Canadian Paper (1919). The latter is the vastest paper factory in the world.
1906 : Beginning of the distribution of the mail of door in door by factors.
1907 : Establishment of the first service of ambulance. Initially, it is about a car drawn by a horse.
1908 : Large fire with the downtown area which destroyed one the third of the city, is more than 800 buildings including 200 houses (June 22nd and 23rd). If the material assessment is enormous, only one death is announced, and it is not fire but of the collapse of a wall the shortly after the tragedy.
1909 : A municipal engineer hurdy-gurdy maintaining with the application of standards and rules as for the site, the construction and the restoration of the buildings. The division of urban space becomes an important matter, but the tragedy of 1908 obliges to develop the safety of the citizens.
1909 : Canonical erection of the second parish in the city: St-Philippe . One will take the unearthed angular stone of the ruins of the parish church of the Immaculate Conception (destroyed by the fire of 1908) as bases St-Philippe church.
1915 : The Three Rivers Traction Company inaugurates the first trams which circulate in the city like in the Cape-of-the-Madeleine. The project had been launched in 1911, in the tread of the rebuilding which makes following the fire of 1908.
June 2nd 1915: The municipality of Holy-Marthe-of-Cape-of-the-Madeleine is detached from Holy-Marie-Madeleine-of-Cape-of-the-Madeleine.
1918 : Holy-Marie-Madeleine-of-Cape-of-the-Madeleine becomes the town of Cape-of-the-Madeleine .
1922 : With the addition of a new paper factory, the St-Lawrence Pulp & Paper (future Domtar and then Kruger), Three-Rivers deserves the title of " henceforth; capital world of paper ".
1924 : Service entrance of the second station, style Art schools by the Canadian Pacific Railways Company according to the plans of the architects Ross & Macdonald of Montreal. It replaces the old wood station.
1924 : Service entrance of the new factory of filtration of the system of aqueduct of the city. The principal building is located on the street St-Maurice, with the corner of (future) the street Of the Channels.
1928 : The municipality of village of Point-of-Lake is detached of the Visitation-of-the-Point-of-Lake.
1931 : The Three Rivers Traction Company is repurchased by the St-Maurice Transport company. It will carry out the replacement of the electric trams gradually by buses with gasoline until 1933.
1934: Realization of the monument called the Torch (street of the Barracks) to commemorate the 300e birthday of the foundation of the city. The name given is that of a learned society of the time which had organized the driving contest with its realization.
1934 : The city buys paper Consolidated Bathurst the St-Quentin island to make a holiday resort of it. For a long time already these places were visited clandestinely by bathers.
1936 : The militia trifluvienne becomes an armor-plated regiment.
1937 : Opening, in October, of the first radio station of the city: CHLN (AM) .
1938 - 1939: Within the framework of a governmental program aiming at occupying the many unemployed resulting from the economic crisis which followed the Krach of 1929, one carries out the construction of the exhibition site. Some wood buildings there are demolished and one builds, in the purest style Art Déco, a stage of baseball, a stage of horse-races, a colized nasty trick, one, an industrial masonry, a swimming pool, the decorative door Pacifique Of Plessis and a small police station and firemen.
1940 - 1945: The ministry for Defense requisitions, for the duration of the war, the whole of the places and buildings of the exhibition site to establish there a center of drive and prison camps. Only the stage of baseball is accessible to the public for this period.
1943 : The regiment of Three-Rivers becomes the 12th Regiment armor-plated of Canada ( 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment ). From 1941 to 1945 it fights in Europe, mainly at the time of the unloading in Sicily and the countryside of Europe of the North-West where it merit 23 honors.
1946 : Installation of the first external phone box by the company Beautiful. It was close to the Market to the Food products which is located at the time with the corner of the Badeaux streets and the Forging mills.
1948 : Inauguration (June 6th) of the Duplessis bridge by Maurice Duplessis which, while cutting the ribbon, declares that this bridge is " as solid as the National union ".
1951 : Collapse of three sections of the Duplessis bridge on the St-Maurice (night of January 30th). It will be rebuilt only in November 1953, but while waiting for a service of boat-frontier runner and a Pont Bailey of the Canadian army are used as transitional measures.
1954 : The municipality of parish of Saint-Michel-of-Old woman-Forging mills is detached from the parish of Three-Rivers.
1961 : Fusion enters the town of Three-Rivers and Saint-Michel-of-Old woman-Forging mills to become the town of Three-Rivers .
1961 : Inauguration of the Airport of Three-Rivers by the Minister for Transport and deputy of Three-Rivers, Leon Balcer.
1961 : Inauguration of the Cloutier bridge (between the St-Quentin island and the island St-Christophe) which allows the development of the récréo-tourist potential of the St-Quentin Island and its access to the general public.
1963 : The parish of Three-Rivers, also known under the name of " banlieue" , changes its name for town of Three-River-West .
1966 : First automobile Large-Price organized in the streets of the city.
1967 : Inauguration, in December, of the Laviolette bridge and end of the service of boat-frontier runners between Three-Rivers and Co.-Angele of Laval.
1967 : Inauguration of a formed complex of the new public library Town hall, and Arts center of Three-Rivers (future House of the Culture). The work of the architect Jean-Claude Leclerc will receive the Prix Vincent-Massey in 1971.
1969: The Center of Academic works becomes the Université of Quebec with Three-Rivers.
1970 : Creation of the shopping mall Rivers. Its opening will take place in October 1971.
1971 : The Cité of the Three-Rivers becomes Ville of Three-Rivers .
1975 : Transport by bus ceases temporarily in the city when the Transport company Carrier and Brothers cease its operations with Three-Rivers. The town of Three-Rivers must assume itself the operation of the service of public transport, whereas it is dealt with by two private companies in Three-River-west and the Cape-of-the-Madeleine.
1978 : Fusion enters the Visitation-of-the-Point-of-Lake and Point-of-Lake to become the municipality of Point-of-Lake .
1981 : Entry according to the first buses of the CITF ( Corporation intermunicipale of transport of the Forging mills ).
July 21st 1993: Saint-Louis-of-France changes its statute for that of town of Saint-Louis-of-France .
December 18th 1993: Holy-Marthe-of-Cape-of-the-Madeleine changes her name for the municipality of Holy-Marthe-of-Cape .
March 14th 1998: Holy-Marthe-of-Cape changes its statute for that of town of Holy-Marthe-of-Cape .
January 1st 2002: Fusion between Cape-of-the-Madeleine, Point-of-Lake, Saint-Louis-of-France, Saint-Marthe-of-Cape, Three-Rivers and Three-River-West to form the town of Three-Rivers .

List governors of the Three-Rivers

1653 - 1667 Pierre Butcher of Boucherville (first governor of the Three-Rivers)
1668 - 1689 Rene Gaultier of Varennes
1690 - 1699 Claude de Ramezay
1703 - 1709 Antonio di Crisafi (or Crisafy )
1709 - 1714 François de Gallifet
1714 - 1720 No trace in the history known today
1720 - 1724 Charles Moyne, baron de Longueuil
1725 - 1726 François Desjordis of St-Georges, sior of Cabanac
1727 - 1730 Jean Bouillet of Chassaigne
1730 - 1733 Jean-Maurice-Josué Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours
1733 - 1742 Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil
1743 - 1748 Claude-Michel Bégon of the Court
1748 - 1757 François-Pierre Stone of Vaudreuil
1757 - 1760 Paul-Joseph Lemoyne, known as Knight of Longueuil (last governor Three-Rivers under the French mode)

1760 - 1762 Ralph Burton governor military English
1762 - 1763 Frederick Haldimand English military governor (by interim)
1763 - 1764 Frederick Haldimand governor military English
1765 - unknown date Holmes last military governor English

List mayors of Three-Rivers

1845 : Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin
1846: Antoine Polette
1853: Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin
1854: John McDougall
1855 - 1857: Jean-Baptiste Lajoie
1857: Joseph-Edouard Turcotte
1863: Louis-Charles Boucher of Niverville
1865: Severe Dumoulin
1869: Joseph-Brace Desilets
1872: Joseph-Napoleon Office
1873 - 1876: Norman Télesphore-Eusèbe
1876: Arthur Turcotte
1877 : Joseph-Napoleon Office
1879: Severe Dumoulin
1885: Henri-Gédéon Mailhot
1888: J. - Edouard Hétu
1889: Norman Télesphore-Eusèbe
1894: Philippe-Elisee Web
1896: Richard-Stanislas Cooke
1898 - 1900: Arthur Olivier
1900 - 1902: Louis-Docithé Paquin
1902 - 1904: N.L. Denoncourt
1904 - 1905: Nérée LeNoblet Duplessis
1905 : Louis-Docithé Paquin
1905 - 1906: J.F. Bellefeuille
1906 - 1908: François-Siméon Tourigny
1908 - 1913: Norman Louis-Philippe
1913 - 1921: Joseph-Adolphe Tessier
1921 - 1923: Norman Louis-Philippe
1923 - 1931: Arthur Bettez
1931 - 1937: Georges-Henri Robichon
1937 - 1941: Atchez Pitt
1941 - 1949: Arthur Rousseau
1949 - 1953: Joseph-Alfred Mongrain
1953 - 1955: Léo Leblanc
1955 - 1960: Laurent Paradise
1960 - 1963: Joseph-Alfred Mongrain
1963 - 1966: Gerard Dufresne
1966 - 1970: Rene Matteau
1970 - 1990: Gilles Beaudoin
1990 - 2001: Guy Leblanc
2001 -…: Yves Lévesque first mayor of the amalgamated city

Population growth

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Monuments

The still visible historical benchmarks today include the Monastère of the Ursulines and the Forges of the Saint-Maurice. Three-rivers is the host of the Large-Price of Three-Rivers, the Série Trans-Am and the Atlantic Formule. It is officially the “national capital of poetry of Quebec”. Many plates posting of the poetic worms are installed through the center of the city and its “International festival of poetry” honors this title.

Since the regrouping of the communes, it should be noted that the Basilica " Notre Dame of Cap" or Sanctuary, is associated in the name of the town of Three-Rivers. This place of famous worship, attracts the pilgrims of all North America. It is a monumental building of octagonal form. The top of the cross which the dome supports raises with 78,5 meters (258 feet). In summer, tens of coaches deposit tourists and faithful.

The Vieille prison of Three-Rivers, built in 1822 is classified historic building since 1978 and can be visited.

Arts

the Symphony orchestra of Three-Rivers was founded in 1978. The first artistic director (and founder) were Gilles Bellemare. At present, Jacques Lacombe assumes this station.
the Conservatoire of Music of Three-Rivers is the third in Quebec and was created in 1964.
the Art gallery Of the Park was created in 1972. It occupies at present the Manoir of Tonnancour.
the Workshop Clipboard was created in 1979.
the Workshop Flint is a production center and of research in current sculpture.
the Center of Exposure Raymond-Lasnier is a showroom located at the House of the Culture.
the Forging mills of the Salamander is a center of artisanal forging mill located on the Island St-Christophe.
the room J. - Antonio Thompson was built in 1928. It was acquired by the Town of Three-Rivers in 1979. It is about the one of the most beautiful theaters to the country.

Museums

the Museum Pierre-Butcher
the Museum of the Ursulines
the Québécois Museum of Popular culture

Sports

the city shelters the Aréna Fernand-Asselin since the January 2nd 2007
provincial Championnat junior the small ones and large skittles (2006)
Canadian Championnat junior and senior of table tennis 2006 (2006)
provincial Championnat of baseball midget AA (2006)
provincial Championnat of Touch Football (2006)
Méga-meets of Paraski and other Kites with the WISSA (2006)
Coupe of Quebec of trampoline doubles mini and rumbling (2006)
National Championnat KTM on Motos ice and VTT (2006)
Triathlon Trimégo of Large the Three-Rivers (2005)
provincial school Championship of football AA (2005)
provincial school Championship invitation of Flag-football (2005)
Canadian Championship of Laser - veil (2005)
Canadian Championship of baseball midget (2005)
Canadian Championship of soccer male U-16 (2005)
national Championship junior of baseball (2004)
world Championship of curling junior (2004)
Canadian Championship of soccer female (2002)
provincial Championship of BMX (2002)
Canadian Championship of female hockey (2001)
provincial Competition in speed skating (2001)
34e Final of Plays of Quebec, winter (1999)
Canadian Championship of boxing " Gilded gloves " (1999)
Canadian Championnat junior of swimming (1998)
world Championnat of Yoseikan Budo (1997)
Championnat of female Rugby junior of the East of Canada
world Championnat of baseball junior (1998)
Canadian Championnat curling junior Pepsi (1993)
Finale of the Jeux of Quebec, be (1975 and 1999)
the city shelters Charon and Guay of Three-Rivers, equips senior with the “North-American League of Hockey” since the season 2004-2005.

Media

Newspapers

the Short story writer, daily newspaper
the Newspaper of Three-Rivers, weekly newspaper
Hebdo Newspaper, weekly newspaper
the Gazette of Mauricie, monthly newspaper

Television

CHEM-TV (Network VAT)
CKTM-TV (Television of Radio-Canada)
CFKM-TV (TQS)
CHANNEL VOX
TV-Cogeco

Radio

Radio Energy 102.3 FM
Rock'n'roll Relaxation 94.7 FM
Rate/rhythm FM 100.1 FM
CHLN 550 AM - 106.9 FM
CFOU 89.1 FM (RADIO UQTR)
First Chain Radio-Canada 96.5 FM
Space Music 104.3 FM

Libraries

Library of Franciade (Sector Saint-Louis de France)
Library Aline-Piché (Sector Western Three-Rivers)
Library Maurice-Loranger (Cape-of-the-Madeleine Sector)
Library Gatien-Lapointe (Sector Three-Rivers)
Simone-L Library. - Roy (Sector Point-of-Lake)

Educational establishments

University of Quebec with Three-Rivers
College Laflèche
Cégep of Three-Rivers
Seminar Saint-Joseph

Personalities related to the city

Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian general (war 1939-45, war of Korea)
Anaïs Allard-Rousseau, Co-founder of Musical Youths of Canada
Marisol Paddle, stimulating in MusiquePlus
Leon Balcer, industrialist, deputy and minister (House of Commons)
Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, judge, appointed (Parliament of the Low-Canada) and patriot.
Steve Bégin, hockey player
Jean Béliveau, ex-player of hockey
Richard Béliveau, biochemist, researcher in oncology
Beautiful, business man, judge, deputy and military Mathew
Gaston Bellemare, president and founder of the International festival of the Poetry of Three-Rivers.
Gilles Bellemare, type-setter and leader
Michel Bergeron, trainer
Guy Bertrand, Radio-Canada, chronicler and first linguistic adviser of the Company Radio-Canada [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27est_bien_meilleur_le_matin]
Isabelle Blais, actress
Yves Boisvert, poet
Pierre Butcher, first governor of the Three-Rivers (1665) and founder of Boucherville. He was égalment the first Canadian colonist with being anobli by Louis XIV .
Jacques Office, minister, Solicitor General of Canada and senator (1860-1933)
Marc Office, hockey player
the abbot Napoleon Charon, it is following its proposal that the Société St-Jean Baptiste instituted the contest (1880) at the conclusion which one created the national anthem (O Canada of Calixa Lavallée and Basile Routhier)
Stéphanie Crete-Blais, actress
Helene Desjardins, écrivaine
Johanne Despins, stimulating Radio-Canada
Maurice Duplessis, Prime Minister for Quebec.
Mariette Duval, actress
Ludger Duvernay, editor and founding member of the Company St-Jean-Baptist lived with Three-Rivers of 1817 to 1827. It published, inter alia, the Gazette of Three-Rivers and Minerve.
Madeleine Ferron, woman of letters
Yves Gabias, judge and minister (under Jean-Jacques Bertrand)
Roger Gaudreault, sculptor whose works are known in Quebec, but also in Taiwan and in Tasmanie
Rodolphe Girard, journalist and writer (Marie Calumet) deceased in 1956
Gerald Godin, poet and Minister for the Parti Québécois
Ezekiel Hart, first Jew with being elected with the Legislative Parliament of Low-Canada and, by the fact even, first Jew to belong to a Parliament of the British Empire
Jacques Hétu, musician, type-setter
Steve Hill, guitarist of blues
the father Frederic Jansoone, franciscain béatifié in 1988 per Jean-Paul II
Pauline Julien, singer, compositrice, Québécois actress

Alexis Klimov, philosopher, writer and poet

Jacques Lacombe, leader

Jacques Lacoursière, historian

Rita Lafontaine, Actress

Jean Lafrenière, poet

Armor Landry, photographer and historian

Suzanne Langlois, Actress

Raymond Lasnier, painter made there its working life and is deceased there

Pierre Gaultier of Lavérendrye, discoverer, it explored the territory between Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains

Felix Leclerc also worked in a radio station of Three-Rivers.

Josianne Levasseur, skater and gymnaste making career with the Circus of the Sun (" O") and the Eloize Circus in Europe and in the United States

Pierre Mailloux, psychiatrist

Guy Marchamps, poet and literary organizer

François Massicotte, humorist

Wilson O' Shaughnessy, Managing director of Three-Rivers of 1971 to 1985 * Louise Pilgrim, hautboist making career in Europe

Michele-Barbara Pelletier, actress

Romeo Pérusse, artist of varieties

Cédrika Provencher, young girl 10 year old disappeared since July 31st, 2007

Colette Provencher, Presenter VAT

Jean Provencher, historian

Ghyslain Raza, phenomenon Net surfer known under the nickname of Star Wars Kid

Ringuet, doctor, writer ( Thirty arpents ) and diplomat (ambassador of Canada in Portugal), his true name is Philippe Panneton (1895-1960)

Pierre Sévigny, hockey player (LNH)

Benjamin Sulte, writer, historian and military

Jean-Guy Talbot, ex-player of hockey, arena bearing its name.

Albert Tessier, priest and pioneer of the Québécois cinema (1895-1976)

Joseph-Adolphe Tessier, lawyer, mayor of Three-Rivers and minister (under Lomer Gouin)

Marie-Helene Thibeault, actress

Claude Thompson, priest, musician and pedagog, founder of the School of the Small Singers of Three-Rivers and the Pueri Cantorum.

Fabiola Toupin, singer

the duet Knitting Machine, Catherine Leduc and Matthieu Beaumont

3 writers with Three-Rivers, Michel Châteauneuf, Frédérick Durand and Pierre Labrie * Marie-Christine Trottier, chroniqueuse cultural Radio-Canada

Manu Trudel, song writer and performer

Denis Vaugeois, historian and minister

Denis-Benjamin Viger, member of Parliament, deputy of Three-Rivers, patriot of 1837-38

Henri Wittmann, linguist

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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

See too

External bonds

Official site of Three-Rivers
Local newspaper Town of Three-Rivers Hebdo Newspaper
Local newspaper Town of Three-Rivers the Short story writer
Wearing of Three-Rivers
Official site of the shipping company of Three-Rivers (STTR)
Site with hundreds of photographs high-quality of the town of Three-Rivers
Three-Rivers seen top of the airs on Google maps
Small Singers of Three-Rivers

Official site for Cédrika Provencher
Three-Rivers Urbain

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