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History of Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Sillery has a grand history dating back to the 17th century. It was the site of Canada's first Indian reserve and Jesuit mission, Sillery, on the edge of the St Lawrence. The reserve was funded by Noël Brulart de Sillery (1577-1640), for whom the town was named.
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History, News and Stories of Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada

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1634 - First Indian Reservation in Canada
Sillery, (Quebec) became the first Indian reservation in Canada funded by (I)-Noel Brulart de Sillary (1577-1640), but it failed by 1680 due to... Read MORE...
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1637 - The Sillery Reserve is cleared and houses built to settle the savages like the French.
It later would be classified as a total failure. More Frenchmen went native than savages went French.
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1637 - July, 1637 - Jesuits found settlement of baptized Montagnais Indians at Sillery
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1652
Four miles upstream from Kebec, on the Saint Lawrence River, there is the residence of the Jesuit Society, called Saint Joseph where the Algonquin... Read MORE...
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1655 - Iroquois vs French
An Iroquois raid in 1655 and a fire this year finished the Indian reserve experiment at Sillery, and by 1663, French settlers would occupy this land. ... Read MORE...
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1666 Census - There were 140 people living at Sillery
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1676 - The village of Sillery is about a league and a half from Quebek (Quebec) on the St. Lawrence River and is for the Algonkins.
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1832 - SILLERY,
seigniory, in the co. of Quebec, is bounded N.E. by part of St. Ignace and several small grants; S.W. by Gaudarville; in the rear by St. Gabriel; in... Read MORE...
1879 - NO BLACK FEVER IN SILLERY
QUEBEC, Dec. 7. - There is no truth to the rumors of a plague at Sillery. The deaths referred to in last night's dispatches were from typhoid fever. New York Herald-Tribune
New York, New York
December 8, 1879
1896 - The First Canadian Novelist
Mr. J. M. Le Moine, the Canadian litterateur, says that "The History of Emily Montague," published in London by Dodsley, in 1769, was the earliest... Read MORE...
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1906
Sillery, Sillery Cove, or Saint Colomb, a post-village and parish of Quebec, co. of Quebec, on the N. shore of the St. Lawrence, a short distance... Read MORE...
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Sillery
Sillery, Qué, Town, pop 11 909 (2001c), 12 003 (1996c), 12 519 (1991c), area 6.70 km2, inc 1980, is located along the north shore of the St Lawrence... Read MORE...
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