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Saint-Bonaventure is a municipality in the Drummond Regional County Municipality of southwestern Quebec.
Officially created on January 1 of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven in the territory of the canton of Upton, the municipality of Saint-Bonaventure is detached from the municipality of Saint-Guillaume...
Located geographically at the limits of the Seigneurie de Guire of royalist allegiance and French, in the British canton of Upton registered in 1792, the village is officially designated "Parish of Saint-Bonaventure" by a Catholic bishopric in 1856...
Like so many other villages around the world, Saint Bonaventure developed near water. The "Rivière-aux-Vaches", coming from Saint-Majorique, crosses the municipality and continues its course towards Saint-Pie-de-Guire and Saint-François-du-Lac. This river is truly responsible for the development of the first community of settlers...
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History, News and Stories of Bonaventure, Québec, Canada

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1760 - The first permanent European settlement of Bonaventure was in 1760 by Acadian refugees who had successfully avoided the expulsion of Acadians that had begun in 1755.
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1791 - Bonaventure parish opened
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1855 - Église de Saint-Bonaventure established at Saint-Bonaventure
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1890 - St Bonaventure
"St Bonaventure, vil.. Quebec, co. Drummond, 30 m. NE. of St Hyacinthe. P. of sub-district 1,063"
The Pocket Atlas and Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada John George Bartholomew John Murdoch Harper January 1, 1890 London : J. Walker
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1895 - Saint Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure, a post village in Drummond co., Quebec, 30 miles from St. Hyacinthe.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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