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	Arthabaska County, Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthabaska County is an historical county in central Quebec, Canada.
		Its county seat was Arthabaska and the main city was Victoriaville.
		It was bounded on the northeast by Mégantic County on the southeast Wolfe County, on the southwest by Drummond County and Richmond County and on the northwest by Nicolet County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthabaska_County,_Quebec (123 words)

	Arthabaska City
		Quebec, on the banks of the Nicolet river, and 2 miles from Victoriaville station, on the Canadian National Railway, and 80 miles from Lévis.
		The name is derived from the Cree word Ayakaskaw, signifying "places where rushes are found", and the town is built on a hill, called by the first settlers, who came about 1838, Monte Cristo.
		It has, beside the county buildings, a hospital, a newspaper (Union des Cantons de l'Est), two furniture factories, a sash and door factory, a grist mill, and a carding mill; and it is the centre of a good agricultural district, in which market gardening, fruit-growing, and dairying are well developed.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/ArthabaskaCity.htm (158 words)

	List of Quebec counties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of the historic counties and territories in the province of Quebec, followed by their respective county seats.
		This is similar to Louisiana's parishes that are secular, and are equivalent to counties, in contrast to Quebec's secular parishes that are sub-county entities.
		Quebec's counties were dissolved in the early 1980s and Quebec was then divided into county regional municipalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Quebec_counties (149 words)

	Warwick - Quebec
		, a village in Arthabaska county, Quebec, on the Rivière des Pins, and on the Canadian National Railway, 8 miles south of Victoriaville.
		It is an industrial centre, with factories for agricultural machinery, washing-machines, overalls, cheese-boxes, and doors; and it was incorporated as a village in 1861.
		There is also a small village of this name in Lambton county, Ontario, 6 miles from Watford
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/Warwick-Quebec.htm (82 words)

	Eastern Townships
		The Eastern Townships is a region in south central Quebec, lying between the Saint Lawrence River and the US border.
		The region comprises the counties that are divided into townships after the tradiontional New England method of land grants, as opposed to other Quebec counties which are divided into municipalities based on the former seigneuries.
		The Eastern Townships in not an official region of Quebec, but is part of the Estrie region.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ea/Eastern_Townships.html (80 words)

	CLD : Region ~ Arthabaska RCM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Arthabaska RCM Council consists of mayors from each municipality in the RCM and is chaired by Warden Marcel LÉVESQUE, major of the Municipality of Saint-Valère.
		Arthabaska RCM’s administrative committee is composed of seven members, with Gilles Gagnon serving as general manager and secretary treasurer.
		Council decisions are subject to a double majority rule, whereby a majority of the votes in council and a majority of the total population of the local municipalities in the RCM are required for a motion to be approved.
	www.regiondesboisfrancs.com /e-13artha.html (1491 words)

	Elections Canada \| Federal Representation 2004 - Quebec
		Thus, the duty to preserve a reasonable parity for the province’s entire population, while not forgetting the criterion of effective representation, regrettably prevented it from acceding to requests that, in some cases, were passionately defended.
		The parts of the RCMs Bécancour and Arthabaska were reintegrated into their RCMs in the neighbouring electoral districts of Richelieu and Richmond–Arthabaska.
		The Municipality of Stoke that is part of the RCM Le Val-Saint-François, along with the former municipalities of Bromptonville, Rock Forest, Saint-Élie-d’Orford and Ascot Corner, merged with the new City of Sherbrooke, surround the electoral district of Sherbrooke.
	www.elections.ca /scripts/fedrep/quebec/report/schedb_e.htm (5061 words)

	The Celtic Way - Discover the Heritage - Territory History - Megantic County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In 1792, after the conquest, the British government undertook in Quebec the cutting of the virgin lands located at the south of the French lands along the Valley of the St. Lawrence.
		In 1861, Tring was no longer part of the Megantic County, and later, Somerset became part of the Arthabaska County.
		As of 1940 what remained in the Megantic County was definitively redrawn and annexed to the new area of the Bois-Francs, from the base of the Appalachians to the Valley of the St. Lawrence.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /celtes/english/patrimoine/lieux.html (257 words)

	Free Surname Search - Quebec
		1861 Census of Mille-Isles, County of Argenteuil, Quebec
		1842 Census for Dundee Township, Beauharnois County, Quebec
		The Gleaner (Huntingdon, Quebec) Extracts 1863-1920 : primarily birth, marriage, and death announcements of English speaking families in the area.
	www.freesurnamesearch.com /search/canada/qcen.html (1371 words)

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		Quebec considers itself as a nation (parliament is National Assembly).
		Quebec colony was known as New France and Canada.
		Also district name is not the county even if the county is probably in the district when the district has a name.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/genealogy/roots-l/genealog/genealog.vican-qu (3154 words)

	Quebec Genealogy - Some addresses (FRANCOGENE)
		The ANQ's principal sources for this research are some repertories and the microfilms of the original acts found in the parish registers of Quebec.
		The acts are sorted by county, city, parish and year....where many have no indexes and others have only cursory annual indexes.
		AT THE VERY LEAST, to answer such a question requires the names of that ancestor's parents and the city or county where he/she was born.
	www.francogene.com /quebec/libraries.php (1078 words)

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		Wilfrid Laurier was born on November 20, 1841, in the village of St. Lin in Quebec.
		In 1871, at the age of 29, Laurier was elected to the Quebec legislature as a Liberal.
		They felt that Laurier was too concerned with keeping his hold on Quebec and that he did not consider the national interests of Canada as a whole.
	www.k12.nf.ca /stmarks/grassroots/2001-02/biographies/national/laurier.htm (1969 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Running in a federal by-election at Quebec on 28 March 1873, he was defeated “by a spoiled brat” named Adolphe-Philippe Caron, but soon consoled himself when, on 5 Feb. 1875, he was appointed to the Senate by the Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie*.
		Fabre in the end left the Senate in July and, “with the consent of the Government of Quebec,” agreed to represent the government of Canada as well “for a period not exceeding three years.” He would hold this double mandate until his death and throughout these years would receive a similar salary from each government.
		Louis-Amable Jetté, who had been appointed lieutenant governor of Quebec in 1898, came over for three months in the fall of 1903 with his wife and their daughter.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40824 (3088 words)

	Survey of Corn Diseases and Pests in Ontario and Québec in 2005
		Like 2004, gray leaf spot was only found on the lower leaves and symptoms were not severe; however, a lot of gray leaf spot symptoms were found at the the Ilderton OCC trial, Middlesex, ON and at a seed corn field at Tilbury, Chatham-Kent, ON in 2005.
		The results of 2004 [7] and 2005 corn disease survey indicated that northern leaf blight is becoming a more serious problem in Canada and losses are increasing and could pose a significant risk in the future.
		Bacterial diseases: As in 2003 and 2004 [6, 7], Stewart's wilt was not frequent in 2005.
	res2.agr.ca /ecorc/corn-mais/surv05-inv05_e.htm (2714 words)

	THE DESSERTS / DE SERRES OF CANADA AND THE USA
		The family of James Dessert and Rosanna Monty.James was the son of Louis Dessert and Melanie Lanneville who were married in 1872 at Ste Angele de Laval Nicolet Quebec.
		He was the son of Calixte Dessert and Angele Gregoire married in 1865 at St David d'Yamaska Quebec.
		He was the son of Joseph and Emma Paquin married in 1874 at st Theodore de Chertsey Quebec.
	bvanasse.tripod.com (967 words)

	USGenWeb RI Articles, The Profession of Medicine, page 4
		Dennis McCaffrey was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in April, 1844.
		He was the eighth generation from William Nickerson of Norwich, Norfolk county, England, who was born 1604, arrived in Boston June 20th, 1637, and is supposed to have settled on Cape Cod in 1639.
		She was the daughter of Reverend Daniel W. Phillips, D.D., a Baptist minister, a native of Carmarthen county, Wales; and her mother was Elizabeth Cross, of Beverly, Mass.
	www.rootsweb.com /~rigenweb/doctors4.html (5631 words)

	Re:Stanstead County, Quebec research resources
		Stanstead County is right on the border of ORLEANS County Vermont.
		It is an excellent history of the settlement of Stanstead County and invaluable to anyone researching their ancestry there.
		Quebec, Canada counties that make up the Eastern Townships (i.e., Arthabaska, Brome, Compton, Drummond, Megantic, Missisquoi, Richmond, Shefford, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Wolfe).
	genforum.genealogy.com /vt/messages/12147.html (552 words)

	Where are the Eastern Townships of Quebec?
		The Eastern Townships is a huge section of Quebec, strung out along the American border, basically beginning at Lake Champlain.
		As the population of the Townships grew, place names, county names and the groupings of townships within counties changed.
		In the 1825 census it is in Richelieu County, up until the 1851 census it is in Missisquoi County and after that census it is in Brome County.
	simmons.b2b2c.ca /township.htm (305 words)

	Artists - Suzor-Côté (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Although the first love of this versatile artist was painting, the creative energy of Suzor-Côté also turned him to investigate his talent in music and eventually, sculpture.
		Born in the county of Arthabaska in Québec, Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté (1869-1937) was one of the youngest of ten children.
		The 1878 home of Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, was also in the Bois-Franc area of Québec in Arthabaska.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /sculpture/ie/suzr.html (463 words)

	Canada Economic Development
		The Centre-du-Québec region comprises two Aboriginal communities (Odanak and Wôlinak) and five regional county municipalities (RCMs): Bécancour, Nicolet Yamaska, Drummondville, Arthabaska and l'Érable.
		In 2004, the region had 224,991 inhabitants or 3% of the Quebec population.
		The manufacturing industry is the regional economic development engine, providing 27.4% of jobs as compared with 17.4% for Quebec as a whole.
	www.dec-ced.gc.ca /asp/ProgrammesServices/situation_economique_3.asp?LANG=EN (242 words)

	Genealogy Data
		Marriage: 25 JUN 1867 in Becanour, Nicolet, Quebec
		Marriage: 19 JUL 1880 in Acton Vale, Abitibi County, Quebec
		Marriage: 3 OCT 1911 in Warwick, Arthabaska County, Quebec
	www.im-a-fugere.com /dat17.html (1421 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		This riding is located in southern Quebec, just north of Sherbrooke.
		It contains the regional county municipalities of Asbestos and Arthabaska and part of Le Val-St-François.
		Provincial: Defeated as ADQ in Arthabaska in 1998
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/088 (822 words)

	Genealogy Data
		Marriage: 16 JUL 1907 in Les Becquets, Nicolet County, Quebec
		Marriage: 11 JAN 1870 in Les Becquets, Nicolet County, Quebec
		Marriage: 1 JUL 1913 in Manseau, Nicolet, Quebec
	www.im-a-fugere.com /dat16.html (2277 words)

	History of Federal Ridings since 1867 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		(d) in the County of Arthabaska: the village municipality of Chesterville; the parish municipality of Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick; the township municipalities of Chester East and Chester West; the municipalities of Chénier, Chester North, Tingwick and Trois-Lacs.
		(c) in the County of Arthabaska: the village municipality of Chesterville; the parish municipality of Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick; the township municipalities of Chester East and Chester West; the municipalities of Chénier, Chester North and Tingwick;
		(d) in the County of Drummond: the village municipalities of Durham South, Kingsey Falls and L'Avenir; the township municipality of Kingsey; the municipalities of Durham South, Kingsey Falls and L'Avenir.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=610 (147 words)

	Robert J. Sivigny Family History
		Also, many of the early Quebec marriages were preceded by a marriage contract which included the bridal couples' parents and usually their origins.
		However, by the 1830’s and 1840’s, Quebec’s most fertile farm land had been systematically occupied, leaving mostly peripheral regions open to agricultural colonisation, and thousands of landless farmers searching either for affordable, accessible and fertile land, or gainful employment.
		Since Quebec was largely a rural society in the 19th century, agricultural problems were truly national problems.
	home.regent.edu /robesiv/sevigny.html (2562 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		Here is an example of this kind of index from the parish of St. Antoine de la Baie du Febvre in Yamaska County.
		Because of the strict structure of the Catholic Church, the language for baptisms, marriages, and burials varies little from parish to parish.
		Sometimes the priests used flowery language, but the major points will be immediately recognizable after you have researched the registers for only a little while.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /full_article_592_818.asp?print=1 (1277 words)

	17 – Centre-du-Québec and its regional county municipalities (RCMs)
		17 – Centre-du-Québec and its regional county municipalities (RCMs)
		Place cursor on an RCM on the map to display information capsule on that RCM.
		To become better acquainted with Québec's Geographical Code System, you may consult the database of the geographical code.
	www.stat.gouv.qc.ca /regions/profils/region_17/region_17_00_an.htm (68 words)

	Federal Election Results
		One of the big stories occured in Quebec where the Bloc Québecois were reduced to 37 seats.
		Anyway, both Quebec leaders were elected, Jean Chrétien for the eleventh time in his county of Saint Maurice and Gilles Duceppe in Laurier-Sainte Marie.
		The Liberals and Bloc Quebecois split Québec's 75 seats with 37 each, the remaining seat going to Tory Andre Bachand of Richmond-Arthabaska (which permitted the Tories of holding on to Official party status).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3586/53786 (516 words)

	Quintin Publications \| Arthabaska County, Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Arthabaska County: Catholic Church, (M) (1840-1950) 624 pages.
		Do you have a book about Arthabaska county that you want to publish?
		Abbreviations: B = Baptism; M = Marriage; S = Burial, A = Marginal notes found in the baptismal records; and R = Church census, which usually lists all person living within a family unit, and their ages.
	www.quintinpublications.com /arthabaska.html (133 words)

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