Lac-Delage
| Lac-Delage | |||
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 Lac-Delage on the lake of the same name |
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| Location in Quebec | |||
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| Province : | Quebec | ||
| Administrative region : | Capitale-Nationale | ||
| MRC or equivalent : | La Jacques-Cartier | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 58 ′ N , 71 ° 24 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 160 m | ||
| Area : | 1.52 km² | ||
| Residents : | 598 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 393.4 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Municipality number: | 22030 | ||
| Postal code : | G3C | ||
| Area code : | +1 418 | ||
| Mayor : | Dominique Payette | ||
| Website : | www.lacdelage.qc.ca | ||
 Located in the MRC La Jacques-Cartier |
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Lac-Delage is a municipality in the south of the Canadian province of Québec . It is located in the administrative region Capitale-Nationale , about 30 km northwest of the center of the provincial capital Québec . Lac-Delage belongs to the regional county municipality (municipalité régionale du comté) La Jacques-Cartier , has an area of 1.52 km² and has 598 inhabitants (2011).
geography
Lac-Delage lies in the middle of the forested southern foothills of the Laurentine Mountains . The municipality surrounds the lake of the same name, Lac Delage (written without a hyphen to distinguish it), the place being on the northern bank. The lake is has an area of 49 hectares and is 26 meters deep. It is drained by the Rivière Delage, which flows half a kilometer into Lac Saint-Charles , the source lake of the Rivière Saint-Charles . Neighboring communities are Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury in the north and east and Québec in the south and west.
history
Lac Larron, the lake's former name, was located on the so-called Jesuit path (sentier des Jésuites) during the French rule . This route, used primarily by fur traders and Jesuit missionaries , connected the city of Québec with the region around Lac Saint-Jean to the north . The lake was part of the Seigneurie Saint-Ignace, but the area remained unused.
This did not change at first when British immigrants settled the area at the beginning of the 19th century and founded the village of Stoneham nearby. The reason for this was that the steep slopes around the lake were unfavorable for agriculture. In the 1850 / 1860s the painter Cornelius David Krieghoff lived in a hut on the shore and made several paintings with the lake as a motif. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the Rockland Farm was built on the lake , a summer resort for high demands, which was modeled on a traditional farm. With the opening of a ski slope in 1940, the season was extended to include winter, and eight years later an access road was built.
In the course of the rapidly advancing suburbanization of the 1950s, the real estate company Delrano showed interest in the area around Lac Larron. In 1959 the Legislative Assembly passed a law establishing Lac-Delage. The name was a proposal by Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis , who wanted to honor the politician Cyrille Fraser Delâge , who had died two years earlier . The area of the new city, which should have 3,000 inhabitants when fully developed, was made up of parts of the parishes of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury and Lac-Saint-Charles . The first chalet-style houses were built from 1963 onwards. Due to the oversaturation of the real estate market, development slowed down significantly from the mid-1970s, and the desired full expansion could not even come close. Lac-Delage has been part of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec association since 2002 .
population
According to the 2011 census, Lac-Delage had 598 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 393.4 inh / km². 94.9% of the population stated French as their main language, the share of English was 1.7%. 0.5% said they were bilingual (French and English), other languages and multiple answers accounted for 2.9%. Only French spoke 50.0%. In 2001, 92.1% of the population were Roman Catholic , 2.2% Protestant and 5.7% of no religion.
Transport and economy
Lac-Delage is connected to Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury and the city of Québec by secondary roads . The only major employer is the Manoir du Lac Delage holiday resort .
Web links
- Official website of Lac-Delage (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Valérie Vignault, Céline Meunier: Compte rendu of pêches Experimentales au Lac Clément et au Lac Delage. (PDF, 849 kB) Organisms des bassins versants de la Capitale, 2007, p. 3 , accessed on November 3, 2014 (French).
- ^ Martin Dubois, Sylvain Lizotte: Le Lac Larron au temps du régime français (1608–1790). (PDF, 1.6 MB) In: Histoire et patrimoine Ville de Lac-Delage. Lac-Delage, 2004, accessed November 3, 2014 (French).
- ^ Martin Dubois, Sylvain Lizotte: Développement des territoires situées au nord de Québec (1790-1959). (PDF, 849 kB) In: Histoire et patrimoine Ville de Lac-Delage. Lac-Delage, 2004, accessed November 3, 2014 (French).
- ^ Martin Dubois, Sylvain Lizotte: La création de la ville de Lac-Delage (1959-2004). (PDF, 5.3 MB) In: Histoire et patrimoine Ville de Lac-Delage. Lac-Delage, 2004, accessed November 3, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the municipality of Lac-Delage. In: 2011 Census. Statistics Canada , 2011, accessed October 31, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the municipality of Lac-Delage. In: 2001 Census. Statistics Canada , 2001, accessed October 31, 2014 (French).