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- Verdun is one of the province's oldest municipalities. It was founded in 1671 by Zacharie Dupuis, one of the first landholders on the Island of Montréal. He named Verdun after his native village of Saverdun in France.
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Jan 30, 2007 · He named Verdun after his native village of Saverdun in France. The religious community of Soeur Marguerite Bourgeois inherited his property and changed the name of l'Île St-Paul to l'Île des Soeurs.
Delimited by the old Saint-Pierre River and the Lachine Rapids, this place owes its name to Zacharie Dupuis, owner of the fief of Verdun, named in memory of his native village in France, Saverdun.
In 1671 the Fief of Verdun is created when land is granted to Zacharie Dupuy, who derived the name Verdun from his native village of Saverdun in France. [13] Two years later he donated the land to the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, [14] who in 1710 built the building now preserved as the Maison Nivard-De Saint-Dizier.
- Name. In 1671 the Lords of the Island of Montreal known as the Sulpician Order granted control of the area to Major Zacharie Dupuis who named it after Saverdun, the name of his home village in France.
- History. Archeological research has revealed evidence that Aboriginal people were present in Verdun nearly 4,000 years ago!
- Early Settlement. One of the first Verdun settlements was the Côte-de-Verdun which used to be known as the Côte-des-Argoulets - which means "Sharpshooter's Coast".
- First Municipality. In 1874 local land owners met in a farmhouse named Le Pavillion where they founded the village of Riviere-Saint-Pierre. The next year it became the known as the municipality of Verdun.
The Origin of Verdun, Quebec. The borough's name, Verdun, is a shortening of Saverdun, the hometown of its early settler Zacharie Dupuy in France. Contrary to popular belief, the name does not derive from the Battle of Verdun in World War I, as it predates the battle by centuries.
May 11, 2017 · On 26 December 1671, the Order of Saint-Sulpice granted a domain of 320 arpents to Zacharie Dupuis, one of the first military pioneers in Quebec. He named the domain Verdun, most probably for his French birth town, Saverdun.
Sep 29, 2014 · The Verdun I saw in April 1913 was an out-of-the-way provincial city of little importance outside of its situation as the nucleus of a great fortress. There were two cities—an old one, la ville...
