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Fire destroyed almost the entire village
- Boucher secured the community against Iroquois attack by constructing a palisade. In 1843 a tragic fire destroyed almost the entire village.
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Feb 7, 2006 · In 1843 a tragic fire destroyed almost the entire village. In 1856, Boucherville divided into 2 distinct municipalities: village and parish. In 1956, the parish lots with frontage on the St Lawrence River rejoined the village and a year later Boucherville was incorporated as a city.
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Settlement and Development. In 1657, Charles Le Moyne de...
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In July 1843 fire destroyed much of the village. Sparks blowing from a steamer ignited a wooden building owned by Mr. Weilbrenner (lot 112). The fire spread and soon most of the village was on fire.
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Pierre-Georges-Prévost Boucher de Boucherville, soldier and Governor Prévost's aide-de-camp, writer and inventor (b at Québec City 21 October 1814, d at St-Laurent [Île d'Orléans] 6 September 1894), first child of Pierre Boucher de Boucherville, seigneur. After his education at the Petit Séminaire of Montréal, he studied law and literature. In 1835...
Nonetheless, in 1843, Georges Boucher de Boucherville did return to Lower Canada. In 1845, he chaired the Société des amis, an organization similar to the Canadian Institute, in which speakers gave talks on history and the sciences. Toward the end of the 1840s, he practised law in Aylmer Township, then briefly in Sherbrooke and finally in St-Hyacin...
In 1867, Georges Boucher de Boucherville was briefly secretary to the first lieutenant-governor, Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, and then, starting on 1 November, Clerk of the Legislative Council of Québec, a position he held until his retirement in April 1889. Like several other parliamentary employees, the clerk had some free time. The Legislative Cou...
1843 - Awful Conflagration the Village of Boucherville in Ashon At the late fire at Boucherville, near Montreal, 52 houses, besides other buildings, were destroyed. Before the fire, it was one of the prettiest villages on the banks of the St. Lawrence.
Feb 8, 2018 · The Church was originally built in 1670. It was renovated following a fire in 1843. In 1969 Mgr. Joseph Poissant undertook restoration work which earned him the National Heritage Award from Heritage Canada in 1976 for the quality of his work.
Dates of existence. 1759-1843. History. François-Xavier Vassal de Monviel (Monteil, Montviel) was born on November 4, 1759, in Boucherville, Quebec. He was a militia and army officer, Justice of the Peace, and landowner. In 1776, he joined the army and took part in the campaigns against the ...
When Toussaint Charbonneau was born on 21 March 1767, in Boucherville, Montreal, Quebec, British Colonial America, his father, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was 31 and his mother, Marie Marguerite Deniau, was 31. He married Sacajawea on 8 February 1805, in Morton, Ray, Missouri, United States.
