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  History of Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada

Journey back in time to Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada

(Bourg Royal)

Visit Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1541 - At the mouth of the Cap Rouge River, Jacques Cartier founds Charlesbourg-Royal, the first French settlement in America.
  
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• 1542 - Charlesbourg-Royal is abandoned. Cartier meets the sieur de Roberval, who was officially part of the same expedition, in Newfoundland.
  
  fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/links/resources/canadian-history/prehistory-to-1800.html
  
  
• 1659 - Charlesbourg founded
  
  
  
• 1666 Census - There were 112 people living at Charlesbourg and Notre-Dame-des-Anges on the St Charles river.
  
  www.canadiangenealogy.net/ chronicles/ new_france.htm
  
  
• 1674 - The first recorded Austrian to come to what is now Canada was the Vienna-born Hans Daigle (possibly "Degler" or "Deger"), a soldier in the service of France, who purchased land in Charlesbourg, Quebec in 1674.
  Sometime courrier de bois with Des Grosseillers and Radisson, he married Marie-Anne Perroteau in 1685. We know relatively littel of his life and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1792 - June 27 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent intervenes in an election riot
  His close friend, Louis de Salaberry, is running in a local election for a seat in the Lower Canadian legislature; with Salaberry in the lead when...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Eglise de Charlesbourg, built 1813
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  Charlesbourg (1830)
  Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-262-21
  www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
  
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• 1832 - The Village of Charlesbourg
  is pleasantly and conspicuously situated on a rising ground of considerable eminence about 4 files N. of Quebec, and consists of about 70 houses,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Charlebourg and the St. Charles River, October 28, 1836
  Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-47-128
  www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
  
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• 1873
  CHARLESBOURG, the chief town of the county of Quebec, situated in rear of Beauport, 4 miles from Quebec. It has an extensive lumber and general...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1889 - The Hidden Treasure
  Quebec, May 4. - Another complication has risen in connection with the supposed hidden treasure on Madeline street, old citizens now recalling that...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1890 - Charlesbourg
  Charlesbourg. vil., Que., chef-lieu of co. and 4 m. from Quebec, on the St Lawrence.
  The Pocket Atlas and Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada John George Bartholomew John Murdoch Harper January 1, 1890 London : J. Walker
  
  
• 1895 - Charlesbourg
  Charlesbourg, shariz'boorg’, the capital of the co, of Quebec, Canada, on the St. Lawrence, 4 miles below Quebec. It has an extensive lumber and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Le Grand Seminare des Peres Eudistes, Charlesbourg (Comte de Quebec)
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• 1916
  Charlesbourg, sharlz'boorg', the capital of the co. of Quebec, province of Quebec, Canada, on the St. Lawrence, 4 miles below the city of Quebec....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Charlesbourg
  Charlesbourg, Qué, Ville, pop 70 310 (2001c), 70 942 (1996c), 70 792 (1991cA), area 66.28 km2, inc 1976, following the merger of the cities of...Read MORE...