Beauport

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Beauport
Location of Beauport in Quebec
city Quebec
surface 74.34 km²
Residents 77,905  (2011)
Quarters Chutes-Montmorency, Laurentides, Saint-Michel, Vieux-Bourg, Vieux-Moulin
Community number REQ05
Website Arrondissement

Beauport is one of six arrondissements of the Canadian city ​​of Québec in the province of the same name . In 2011 the 74.34 km² district had 77,905 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 1048 inhabitants / km². The municipality was created in 2002 and comprises the area of ​​the previously independent city of Beauport of the same name.

geography

Beauport is located northeast of the city center, between the Laurentine Mountains and the banks of the Saint Lawrence River . The lower reaches of the Rivière Montmorency with the 83 meter high Montmorency Falls forms part of the eastern city limits. Neighboring arrondissements of the city of Québec are La Cité-Limoilou in the south and Charlesbourg in the west. In addition, Beauport borders the municipalities of Lac-Beauport in the north, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval in the northeast and Boischatel in the east. Beauport is also divided into the quarters of Chutes-Montmorency, Laurentides, Saint-Michel, Vieux-Bourg and Vieux-Moulin.

history

View from Beauport

Robert Giffard, a surgeon and pharmacist from Normandy , was awarded the Seigneurie Beauport by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France in January 1634 . Five months later he settled there with his family and two craftsmen. In 1666 the Seigneurie had 29 farms with 184 residents. The greatest concentration arose around the village of Bourg du Fargy, from which the center of the later city gradually developed. On October 16, 1690, William Phips' forces landed on the shore at Beauport and tried in vain to take the city of Quebec in the following eight days . Seven decades later, during the siege of Québec , the French managed to temporarily repel the British at the Battle of Beauport on July 31, 1759, before the city finally fell another six weeks later.

The Seigneurie passed into the possession of the Duchesnay family in 1683, and the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Miséricorde-de-Beauport was founded a year later. With the abolition of the manorial rule in 1854, the municipalities of Beauport, Courville, Giffard, Montmorency, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux, Saint-Michel-Archange and Villeneuve emerged. In 1845 the Asile de Beauport was opened , the first psychiatric clinic in the province of Québec. It continues to exist today under the name Center hospitalier Robert-Giffard and is an institute attached to the Université Laval . From 1914 to 1916 there was an internment camp in the Zeughaus, which housed mostly Ukrainian and German prisoners of war.

Maison Bélanger-Girardin

Due to increasing urbanization, the seven municipalities merged in 1976 to form the city of Beauport. The city had a partnership with Etterbeek in Belgium , which is still going on today. In 2002, Beauport merged with the City of Québec. A referendum was held against the merger ordered by the provincial government, but in the vote on June 20, 2004, only 46.2% of those who voted voted for detachment.

Attractions

The historic district of Beauport, which includes 650 buildings from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, extends over a length of six kilometers on a terrace parallel to the St. Lawrence River. The Maison Bélanger-Girardin is classified as a national historical site . This stone house from 1735 is one of the oldest surviving houses from the time of French rule that were built outside of Québec City. On the eastern edge of the city, around the Montmorency Falls, is the Parc de la Chute-Montmorency .

Personalities

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Histoire de raconter - Le Vieux-Beauport. (PDF, 2 MB) (No longer available online.) City of Québec, 2006, archived from the original on June 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 16, 2014 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Québec. Commission de toponymie du Québec, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014 (French).
  3. ↑ Histoire de l'institut. (No longer available online.) Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, 2014, archived from the original on February 19, 2015 ; Retrieved October 16, 2014 (French).
  4. ↑ Les camps d'internal management au Canada durant les première et Seconde Guerre mondiales. Library and Archives Canada , March 29, 2006, accessed October 16, 2014 (French).
  5. ↑ Référendums du 20 juin 2004. Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed on October 16, 2014 (French).
  6. ^ Site patrimonial de Beauport. In: Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec. Ministère de culture et des communications, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014 (French).
  7. ^ Lieu historique national du Canada de la Maison Bélanger-Girardin. Répertoire des lieux patrimoniaux du Canada, accessed on October 16, 2014 (French).

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '5 "  N , 71 ° 10' 49"  W.