Deschambault-Grondines Explained

Deschambault-Grondines
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Canada Central Quebec
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Label:Deschambault-Grondines
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in central Quebec
Coordinates:46.65°N -127°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Quebec
Subdivision Type2:Region
Subdivision Name2:Capitale-Nationale
Subdivision Type3:RCM
Subdivision Name3:Portneuf
Established Title1:Constituted
Established Date1:27 February 2002
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Patrick Bouillé
Leader Title1:Federal riding
Leader Name1:Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier
Leader Title2:Prov. riding
Leader Name2:Portneuf
Area Total Km2:152.00
Area Land Km2:124.02
Population Total:2235
Population As Of:2021
Population Density Km2:17.0
Population Blank1 Title:Pop 2016–2021
Population Blank1: 0.7%
Population Blank2 Title:Dwellings
Population Blank2:1169
Timezone:EST
Utc Offset:−5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:−4
Postal Code Type:Postal code(s)
Postal Code:G0A 1S0
Area Code:418 and 581
Blank Name:Highways
Blank Info:

Website:Deschambault-Grondines

Deschambault-Grondines is a municipality located in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the Capitale-Nationale region, Quebec, Canada.

Deschambault-Grondines was created in 2002 by the merger of the villages of Deschambault and Grondines. It is a member of the Fédération des Villages-relais du Québec. [1] '

Deschambault

History

The village of Deschambault is located in the eastern part of the municipality. It has its origins in the Seigneurie de Chavigny, granted in 1640 by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France. In 1671, Jacques-Alexis Fleury, Sieur Deschambault, married the heiress of the seigneury and became its owner in 1683 through an exchange of land. He then gave his name to his new domain. The parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault was founded in 1713 and canonically erected in 1753. The parish municipality was created in 1855, and the village municipality separated from it in 1951. These two entities merged again in 1989.[2] ' [3]

. . . At one time, Deschambault was said to have "a pilot every two houses." Very early on "the taste for the sea" developed there, because the St. Lawrence has long been the only way to access the village. "Everything was happening on the river !" says Father Jacques Paquin, coordinator of the Deschambault Navigators Committee." Even after the opening of the Chemin du Roy, a route considered difficult, the seaway continued to be used more than the land route. Deschambault, a village of sailors, Le Soleil. Translated from French.[4]

Grondines

History

The name Grondines was named by Samuel de Champlain himself in 1674.[5] . "Grondines" is from the French verb "gronder", meaning to rumble or roar.

The 'seigneurie des Grondines' was one of the oldest lordship in the province of Quebec, and was initially granted in 1637 by the Company of New France to Duchess Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Dame d'atours of Marie de' Medici, and niece of Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIV.[6]

The estate covered a land area of around 90 square miles or nearly 60,000 acres.[7] ' [8] In 1646, the Governor of New-France at the time, Charles Jacques Huault de Montmagny,[9] gave the concession to the nuns hospitallers, administrators of Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, and thereafter, it was resold in 1683 to Lord Jacques Aubert.[10] This family was one of the eight seigneurial dynasties that lived permanently on their estate for six generations.[13]

Over time, the Hamelins married members of the French-Canadian nobility. The families were the Couillard de l'Espinay, the Denys de la Ronde, partners of Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, the Fleury d'Eschambault, the Gaultier de Varennes, the Lorimier de la Rivière, the Chavigny de la Chevrotière, and their in-laws included the Barons Le Moyne de Longueuil, the Pézard de Champlain, and the Boucher de Montarville.[14] ' [15] [16] [17]

A member of this family was also recognized as noble by the Sovereign Council of New France of Louis XIV in 1654, and would join the French-Canadian nobility, being the lord and commander Jacques-François Hamelin de Bourgchemin et de l'Hermitière, a descendant of Jacques Hamelin, bishop of Tulle.[18] [19] [20] '[21] In 1766, a member of the Hamelin de Chavigny also appeared in documents of the Canadian nobility, where they asked the king to keep in power the current Governor of Quebec James Murray, with the hope of being less penalized by the injustices they had to suffer after the British conquest.[22]

The signatories, including A. Hamelin, were Luc de la Corne, François-Joseph Cugnet, Aubert de Gaspé, Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, and a few others. The last lord of Grondines was Senator David Edward Price in 1871, a member of the influential Price family.[23]

Opposite Cape Lauzon, in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, the Richelieu Rapids stretch for a distance of nearly 2 km. These rapids, which are virtually invisible, correspond to a narrowing of the channel, marked, especially at low tide, by a much stronger current than anywhere else on the St. Lawrence downstream of Montreal.[25] ' [26]

From the canoes of the First Nations to the ships of the conquerors, the Richelieu Rapids have played a strategic role in the history of Cape Lauzon, Deschambault and all of Quebec. To this day, they still make life as hard for sailboats, rowboats, canoes, small boats as they do for the captains of large merchant ships.[27]

The St. Lawrence River limits the territory of Portneuf regional County (RCM) for nearly 70 km. Along the Chemin du Roi, from one village to another, several spaces allow you to rest, visit, picnic, fish, observe birds, dip your toes in the water. The main attraction remains the docks.[28]

In Grondines, the tip of the Anse des Grondines, also known in the vernacular: La Grande Pointe, Pointe de la Laille or Grande pointe de la Laille. The word laille could come from the English light, since there was a lighthouse at the end of the island.

According to historian Raymond Douville, this point is the origin of the name Grondines, probably given by the boaters who had to go around, at the rising tide, the many pebbles that the waves hit in dull roars and whose echoes resonated on the escarpments of the coast.

Geography

Geology

DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA
« . . . The part of the Grondines map-area underlain by Paleozoic rocks (approximately two-thirds of the whole) is a nearly featureless plain rising in the north and west to 250 feet above sea level, and dropping to tide water level along the Saint-Laurent. »

Ecology

« . . . The Grondines and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade swamp is one of the last, large, treed swamps on the river. It extends along seven kilometres of shoreline in the St. Lawrence River’s freshwater estuary.The swamp shelters several at-risk species, including plants that are endemic to the freshwater estuary. It is a rare biodiversity hot spot on a global scale, according to the Atlas de la biodiversité du Québec (Quebec biodiversity atlas). »The Grondines and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Swamp, A unique ecosystem.[30]

Climate

Demographics

Population trend:[31]

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,044 (total dwellings: 1,169)

Mother tongue:

Attractions

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ricard. Pierre-François . Modifications aux municipalités du Québec, février 2002 . Direction de l’édition et des communications Institut de la statistique du Québec . 21 May 2023.
  2. Web site: Yves Roby, Francine Roy . Deschambault . 10 February 2024 . 18 of 23 . fr . 2013-05-02 . Must hold fire and place over their seigneury, grant land to anyone who requests it, build and maintain a common mill, and establish a seigneurial court for the administration of low and middle justice.
  3. Web site: René Baudry, c.s.c. . Charles d'Aulnay and the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France . Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française . 9 February 2024 . 25 . fr . 1957-09-02 . But it is very difficult to write definitive history. Like all art and all living science, history refuses to be fossilized..
  4. Web site: Johanne Martin . Deschambault, a village of sailors . 15 February 2024 . fr . 2020-08-02 . For 250 years, this corner of paradise located on the banks of the river has seen the birth of more than 1000 sailors... And the maritime tradition is still very much alive today.
  5. Web site: Deschambault-Grondines . Commission de toponymie Quebec . Government of Quebec . 13 February 2024 . fr . 2002-04-12 . The municipality of Deschambault-Grondines was created on February 27, 2002. It is the result of the merger of the municipalities of Deschambault and Grondines.
  6. Web site: Seigneury of Grondines and the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Grondines . Municipality of Saint-Casimir . 15 February 2024 . History . fr . 2024 . The territory of Saint-Casimir was originally part of the seigneury of Grondines and the parish of Saint-Charles-des-Grondines..
  7. https://archives.uqam.ca/fonds-archives/archives-privees/11-gestion-archives-historiques/46-fonds-archives.html?varcote=87P Fonds D'archives des Seigneuries Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade et des Grondines (87P)
  8. https://www.conversionunites.com/conversion-lieue-carre-en-acre Conversion lieue carré en Acre
  9. Web site: Seigneuries of Grondines and Deschambault . Deschambault-Grondines . 15 February 2024 . History . fr . The seigneuries of Grondines and Deschambault were granted at the same time by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France known as the Compagnie des Cent-Associés..
  10. https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/acte-de-concession-par-louis-de-buade-comte-de-frontenac-et-jean-bochart-champigny-gouverneur-et-intendant-de-la-nouvelle-france-au-sieur-louis-hamelin-seigneur-en-partie-des-grondines-des-iles-ilets-et-battures-se-trouvant-devant-sa-p Item P209 - Acte de concession par Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, et Jean Bochart Champigny, gouverneur et intendant de la Nouvelle-France, au sieur Louis Hamelin, seigneur en partie des Grondines
  11. In 1698, comte Louis de Buade of Château Frontenac award them concessions, extending their lordship with additional islands and isles.[10]
  12. Being the father-in-law of Louis Hamelin, the next lord of Grondines, the lordship passed to the Hamelin family afterwards, and was transmitted to their descendants until 1797, following the British Conquest.[10]
  13. https://www.cieq.ca/_documents/PUB_CH_150ansapres.pdf Le régime seigneurial au Québec 150 ans après, page 51
  14. https://genealogieroy.ca/Livres/NoblesseQuebecoise.pdf Tables Généalogiques de la Noblesse Québécoise du XVII au XIX siècle
  15. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2518395 Histoire Généalogique de la Famille Denys
  16. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2479071 Histoire Généalogique de la Noblesse de la Nouvelle France
  17. Roy, Pierre-Georges (1916). La famille de Chavigny de la Chevrotière, Lévis, Québec, Monographies, Canadiana, p. 20-23-26-27-34-40-64-70-152-153-162
  18. https://patrimoinequebec.ca/Archive/BIBLIOTHEQUE/8-noblesse-2.pdf Archives de la Province de Quebec, Lettres de Noblesse, Genealogies, Erections de Comtes et Baronnies, insinuees par le Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle-France, page 113-116
  19. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3511438 Études généalogiques et historiques sur la noblesse canadienne, page 12
  20. http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/hamelin_de_bourgchemin_et_de_l_hermitiere_jacques_francois_1F.html Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, Hamelin de Bourgchemin et de L’Hermitière, Jacques-François
  21. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cdd/1954-n19-cdd06248/1080037ar.pdf Deux officiers "indésirables" des troupes de la Marine
  22. Web site: Abbé A. Couillard Després . The nobility of France and Canada . Collection laurentienne . 16 February 2024 . 49 of 75 . fr . 1916 . The English of Quebec won their case at the court of London; the Canadians were removed from public office, and the nobility who might have rendered good service were regarded as suspect..
  23. Web site: The Ages of Exploration . Jacques Cartier . The Mariners' Museum and ParK . 2024-01-13 . Jacques Cartier is credited with discovering and claiming the land now known as Canada for France..
  24. The Grondines windmill was built and is the oldest windmill in Québec.

    St. Lawrence River

    In canoes, made of birch bark or carved out of a tree trunk, First Nations have crisscrossed the St. Lawrence River from west to east, from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and all the rivers of the Americas, from north to south, from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, for millennia. Indigenous peoples knew the advantages, irritants, barriers and dangers of waterways long before the arrival of Europeans and Jacques Cartier (1491-1557).[23]

  25. Web site: Cape Lauzon . Commission de toponymie Quebec . Government of Quebec . 13 February 2024 . fr . 1968-12-05 . This cape, in the shape of a semicircle and nearly 25 m high, extends 500 m from northwest to southeast into the St. Lawrence..
  26. Web site: Richelieu Rapids . Commission de toponymie Quebec . Government of Quebec . 13 February 2024 . fr . 1968-12-05 . An important landmark for sailors, the Richelieu Rapids are located in the middle of the St. Lawrence, 1.5 km from the coast, between Lotbinière and Deschambault..
  27. Web site: St. Lawrence River, Cap-Rouge to Montréal and Rivière Richelieu . Canadian Hydrographic Servie . 13 February 2024 . 92 . 2022 . This publication are requested to forward information regarding newly discovered dangers, changes in aids to navigation, the existence of new shoals or channels, or other information.
  28. Web site: Stéphanie Poirier . Public access to the St. Lawrence River in Portneuf . Tourisme Portneuf . 13 February 2024 . fr . 16 May 2021 . The Portneuvois coastline is Deschambault-Grondines, Portneuf, Cap-Santé, Donnacona and Neuville..
  29. Web site: T. H.Clark . Y.Globensky . Grondines Area . Ministère de l'Énergie et des Ressources naturelles - Gouvernement du Québec . 16 February 2024 . 127 of 172 . 1975 . Fossils of the Grondines members.
  30. Web site: The Grondines and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Swamp . Nature Conservancy Canada . 13 February 2024 . The Grondines and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade swamp is one of the last, large, treed swamps on the river. It extends along seven kilometres of shoreline in the St. Lawrence River’s freshwater estuary..
  31. Statistics Canada: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Deschambault-Grondines".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.