Two-Mountains
See also: Two-Mountains (homonymy)
Two-Mountains is a Ville in the regional Municipalité of county of Two-Mountains to the Quebec, located in the administrative area of the Laurentides.
History
Origin of the name
The town of Two-Mountains is thus named since 1963. Called before Saint-Eustace-on-the-Lake, the name of Two-Mountains was allotted to him because of the lake which skirts a good part of the municipality. Also used to name the county, the toponym of Two-Mountains is also employed to indicate many private companies and public of the area.Several interpretations of the name of Two-Mountains were proposed with the passing of years. We propose three of them to you who seem being most plausible.
The first explanation is drawn from History of Laurentides where Gilles Boileau, historian who devoted most of his work to the study of the area, affirms that they are the hills of Oka, made of rocks Précambrien born from about fifteen kilometers in diameter and a 225 m height which gave their name to the area. This explanation seems being most probable, since the hills of Oka dominate the area by their height and their mass. Moreover, Pierre Hamelin also considers this explanation.
The second explanation comes to us from a booklet entitled the way of the seigniories . According to the authors, the toponym Two-Mountains would draw its origins from the one of the two hills of Oka, probably that where the Martyrdom is, and of another hill located at Saint-Andrew. This explanation more regional also deserve to be considered.
The third explanation is in a text of Pierre Hamelin on the origins of the lake of the Two-Mountains. According to Hamelin, the hill of Oka where is located the Martyrdom would be one of the Two-Mountains whereas the second, and it is there the originality of this explanation, would be on southern bank of the lake close to Rigaud. Hamelin thus proposes two explanations, a first which it shares with Boileau and this one which wants that the two mountains are, one the northern bank and the other on southern bank. With the explanation provided by the authors of the " Way of the seigneuries" , here is a well started debate which would deserve to be cleared up one day
So today the town of Two-Mountains is called thus, it could just as easily have named town of Médicis, town of Soissons, town of Maupas or city of the Boiler since these four names were used to indicate the lake of the Two-Mountains before this last term is not employed. Always according to Hamelin, the name of Médicis was given in 1612 to the lake by Champlain in the honor of Marie de Médicis, wife of Henri IV. Into 1632, Champlain changes this name for the lake Soissons into the honor of the general lieutenant of the News-France, Charles Bourbon, count de Soissons. It is in 1684, on a chart of Franquelin, which one finds for the first time the name of Two-Mountains, although it seems that this name was used quite front by the population. As for the names of lake Maupas and lake of the Boiler, no explanation is provided concerning their origin.
According to the information collected by Jean-Paul Ladouceur of the Company of regional history of Two-Mountains, before 1963, the city was not called Two-Mountains, but well Saint-Eustace-on-the-Lake a set up municipality the August 18th 1921. The name change was done at the request of the municipal council which wanted a name being able to be translated into English. At the time, the half of the population was anglophone.
Before 1921, in a proclamation dated from the February 7th 1912, the current territory of Two-Mountains was set up in municipality under the name of Beautiful-Air, but following two requests on behalf of taxpayers, it was reannexed with the territory of Saint-Eustace the same year.
The name came from the two mountains that the runners of wood, the travellers and before them the Amerindians, saw on north-western bank of the lake after the bearing of Holy-Anne-with-Bellevue. One of these mountains is the mountain of the Martyrdom and the other, its binocular, is with the height of Saint-Joseph-of-Lake.
The toponym Two-Mountains was initially allotted to the lake, then with the seigniory of the Lake-of-Two-Mountains, then with the area of Two-Mountains. Some claim that Indians would have called the Mamhinhan area, where there are bottoms of rivers, others advance that the Abénaquis indicated the place of the name of Moziosagan, the garrot of the moose.
Sources
- Re-examined history of French America , vol. 52, NO3, winter 1999. pp. 383-406.
- the review of the two mountains , No October 10th, th and th, 1998, pp. 65-90.
- Names and places of Quebec of the Commission of toponymy of Quebec.
Administration
The town of Two-Mountains is subdivided in 4 small districts which do not have a name.
- first in the north of the Way of Oka (not-is included) and in the west of the railway
- second is in the north of the numbered avenues, but in the east of the railway
- third is in the north of the Way of Oka (not-included), in the east of the railway and in the south of the district preceding
- the fourth district is between the way of Oka (included) and the Rivière of the Thousand-Islands and the Lac of the Two-Mountains
Municipal chronology
The town of Two-Mountains had 17 mayors of 1921 with today:
Regional
Municipalities bordering
Sources
- Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
- Commission of toponymy of Quebec
- municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts
External bonds
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Official site Two-Mountains
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