History, News and Stories of La Prairie, Québec, Canada

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• 1647 - Seigniory (Laprairie) Granted, 1st April 1647, to the order of Jesuits
  
• 1667 - Église de la Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge established at Laprairie
  
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• 1669 - Mission Established
  The mission Laprairie de la Province de Quebec near Ville-Marie (Montreal), is established this year, as an Iroquois Mission, by Father Pierre... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1753 - The parish of St-Jean-François-Régis is established at St-Philippe-de-Laprairie
  
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• 1813 - November 2 - British Army executes five deserters by firing squad at LaPrairie,
  
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• 1832 - LAPRAIRIE DE LA MADELEINE,
  seigniory, in the co. of Laprairie, is bounded N.E. by Longueuil; S.W. by Sault St. Louis; in the read by the barony of Longueuil; in front by the... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1832 - Laprairie Post Office opens
  
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• 1836 - Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad
  1836, July 21 - Governor Lord Gosford rides on the First train of the Champlain & St. Lawrence Railway with 300 other guests, pulled by the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1848 - Flood
  The spring flood of the St. Lawrence, by blocking up the ice at Boucherville, five miles below Montreal, has flooded the village of La Prairie, on... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1873
  LAPRAIRIE, a county of Quebec, bordering on Hie Diver St. Lawrence, opposite the Island of Montreal. Area 110,606 acres. It is traversed by the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1884 - Sick Sheep
  The Canadian government has ordered that no sheep be allowed to leave the county of La Prairie, in the province of Quebec, because of a disease... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1885 - Canadian Towns which are Infected
  The State Board of Health of Maine announces, that besides Montreal and its suburbs, the following named places in the Province of Quebec are... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1887 - Black Fox
  La Prairie, Quebec, reports the capture of a black fox.
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  January 29, 1887
  
• 1895 - Laprairie
  LAPRAIRIE, the chief town of Laprairie co., Que., on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, and a station on the G. T. R. It contains 2 churches,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1897 - Died at 108
  Mrs. Charlotte Leclair of Westerly, R. I., died yesterday morning at the age of 108 years and six months. She was born in La Prairie, a small town in ... Read MORE...
  
  
• Ville de La Prairie, Quebec
  
• 1901 - Convent Damaged
  Montreal, Jan 23 - Fire damaged the convent of the Sisters of Providence at La Prairie, Quebec, on Saturday night to the extent of $30,000. No lives... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1901 - Fire
  Fire destroyed twenty-nine houses and one convent at LaPrairie, Que., Thursday night; loss, $100,000. The News-Palladium
  Benton Harbor, Michigan
  July 27, 1901
  
• 1906
  Saint Philippe, a post-village of Laprairie co., Quebec, 6 miles S. of Laprairie, on the Canadian Pacific R. Pop. 200.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
• 1916
  Laprairie, the capital of the co. of Laprairie, Quebec, is situated on the S. shore of the river St. Lawrence and on the Grand Trunk R., 7 miles S.... Read MORE...
  
  
• La Prairie
  La Prairie, Qué, City, pop 21 763 (2006c), 18 896 (2001c), inc 1909. La Prairie, a suburb of MONTRÉAL, is located on the South Shore of the St... Read MORE...