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  History of Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Journey back in time to Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

(Saints-Anges-de-Lachine)

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

     

• 1535 - October 2 - Jacques Cartier
  visits the Iroquois town of Hochelaga; legend says he proclaimed "What a royal mountain," ("Quel Mont Royal (Mont Réal!)"; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine (China); local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper; a priest...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1676 - established
  Lachine, originally named Saint-Sulpice, was a vast domain granted to Robert Cavelier de La Salle to colonize and cultivate the land. Instead, Cavelier, like Cartier before him, tried to find a passage to Asia, and Saint-Sulpice was derisively renamed La Chine (French for China). The name became...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1678 - Église des Saints-Anges de Lachine established at Lachine
  
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  Église des Saints-Anges de Lachine
  1400, rue Saint-Joseph, Lachine, QUÉBEC
  Established 1678
  Source: Google maps
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•  1689 - Attacked by Iroquois - Lachine Massacre
  On the night of August 4-5, 1689, nearly 1,500 Iroquois warriors crossed the St. Lawrence at Lake St. Louis, its widest point in the Montreal area. On the opposite shore, the inhabitants of the hamlet of Lachine were sleeping peacefully. Because of torrential rain, they didn't hear the enemy...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1719-20 – Maison Jean-Gabriel Picard (5430 boulevard Saint-Joseph, Lachine) built. It is one of Lachine's two oldest houses.
  
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• 1817 - July 17 - Construction begins on the Lachine Canal; completed eight years later.
  
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• 1821 - July 2 - Lower Canada takes over Lachine Canal building from private company
  
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•  1823 - Blown Away
  On Tuesday last, a labourer on the Lachine Canal, having lighted the train to a hole filled with powder for blasting a rock, the charge did not immediately explode, and he approached to examine the train. While standing directly over the hole the charge went off, and blew him into the air, bruised...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1825 - 700 Irish Arrive
  Montreal, June 18. - On Thursday the Lady Sherbrook and Quebec steam boats brought from Quebec about 700 Irish emigrants, sent out by Government. Without being permitted to enter the town the proceeded immediately to Lachine, to be conveyed by water to their destination in Upper Canada. So large a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1832 - The Parish of Lachine,
  by a regulation made Sept. 20, 1721, confirmed by an Order in Council, Mar. 3, 1722, comprises 2 3/ 4 leagues along the St. Lawrence from Cote des Argoulets to Pointe Claire, part of Cote St. Paul, and half of two ranges in Cote de Notre Dame des Vertus. All the lands are conceded, and some...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1835 - Anglican parish of Saint Stephen established at Lachine
  
  Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal
  
  
•  1842 - DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE.
  It is our painful duty to announce a calamity unprecedented in extent in British North America, which occurred on our waters on Sunday Inst.
  
  The steamer Shamrock left the Canal Basin at Montreal on Friday evening, and the Locks at Lachine early on Saturday morning, having in tow three barges,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  CHINE (La). or LACHINE, a village of Lower Canada, on the N side of the rapid called the Sault-Saint-Louis, 8 m. from Montreal. The rapid is overcome by the canal of La Chine, extending from the v. to the city of Montreal, which is 9 m. in length, but has a depth of 5 ft. only.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
• 1859
  MONTREAL, an island of Lower Canada, at the confluence of the Grand Ottawa river with the St. Lawrence, 580 m. from the mouth of the latter river. It is of a triangular shape, 32 m. long, by from 5 to 10 1/ 2 m. broad. The Riveres-des-Prairies separates it on the NW from Isle Jesus, which is 21 m....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1862 - April 14 - Ice dam causes St Lawrence River rapidly to overflow its banks, inundating one-quarter of Lachine and old Montreal with river water 24 feet deep.
  
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• 1873
  LACHINE, an incorporated town in Jacques Cartier co., Que., on Lake St. Louis, and on the G. T. R., (Province Line division,) 8 .miles from Montreal. It is the summer residence of many Montrealers, and a favorite resort of pleasure parties during the winter. It contains a large tannery, two...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1876 - Fatal Fire at Lachine, Quebec.
  LACHINE, July 21. - A large building used by Mr. Stouge for boat-building, burned last night, with boats of the Lachine Boating Club and several steam and sailing yachts. A child of the proprietor perished in the flames, and two mean endeavoring to save their tools were so badly burned they died...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1881 - Chief Joseph Onaskeurat Dies
  Joseph Onaskeurat, chief of the tribe of Oka Indians, who died the other day near the Lachine Rapids, Province of Quebec, was one of the most distinguished red men of the present century, though he had only completed his thirty-fifth year last September. He was a leader of the Protestant Indians in ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1882-84 - Lachine
  ...From the wharf at Montreal we take the steamer which is to carry us up the Ottawa to our destination at the Capital. We proceed for the first eight and a half miles along the Lachine Canal amid scenery tranquil and uneventful as that of a Dutch village. Along the level banks are occasional trees ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Canals and Locks at Lachine
  
  1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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  Old Windmill on Lachine Road, and Distant View of Lachine Rapids
  
  1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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• 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 affected with small-pox; Batiscan, Oct. 22, 7 families; Bersenels, below Tadousac, Nov 6, 4 families; Cap St. Ignace, Oct. 29, 50 cases, Chambly, Oct 27, 2...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Pensionnat des Soeurs de Ste-Anne a Lachine, built around 1888
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• 1895 - Lachine
  Lachine, là'sheen', a town in Jacques Cartier co, Quebec, on Lake St. Louis, opposite Caughnawaga, and on the Grand Trunk Railway, 8 miles S.W. of Montreal. It is the summer residence of many city people, and a favorite resort of pleasure-parties during the winter. It contains a large tannery, a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  View of Lachine Locks
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  Bridge at Lachine
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  Old Windmill at Lachine, P. Que.
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  Stoney Point, Lachine, P.Q.
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  St Joseph Street, Lachine.
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• 1906 - Église de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens established at Lachine
  
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  At Lachine Wharf, 1909
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• 1910 - Église du Très-Saint-Sacrement established at Lachine
  
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• 1916
  Lachine, a town of Jacques Cartier co., Quebec, on Lake St. Louis, opposite Caughnawaga, and on the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Rs., 8 miles SW. of Montreal. It is the summer residence of many city people and a favorite resort of pleasure-parties during the winter. It has a large tannery,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Lachine
  Lachine, Qué, City, pop 40 222 (2001c), 39 910 A (1996c), 35 266 (1991c), area 17.83 km2, inc 1907, is located on the south bank of Île de Montréal and forms part of the Montréal urban community. In 1669 Cavelier de la Salle travelled inland in search of China, whence the derisive nickname Lachine...Read MORE...