History of Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada

Journey back in time to Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada

(Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)

• The seigneury of Lauzon was created in 1636 and existed until 1836. It is to Guillaume Couture, that returns the title of the first settler of Pointe-Lévy and this seigneury.
  
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• 1679 - Parish of St-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy is established at Lauzon
  
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• It is moreover Guillaume Couture who will command the French militia during the English invasion of Admiral William Phips in 1690. The monument of the "founding father" of the seigneury is installed in front of the Saint-Joseph church.
  
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• 1694 - Église de Saint-Joseph established at Lévis
  
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  Église de Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy
  291, rue Saint-Joseph, Lévis, QUÉBEC G6V 1G3
  Established 1694
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• 1759 - July 12 - French and Indian War - James Wolfe orders cannon to start firing on Québec from heights of Levis
  that night Jean-Daniel Dumas leads 1,600 soldiers, mostly students, in a disastrous night attack on the English; the young men panic and fire on each other.
  
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• On June 30, 1759, the village of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy was attacked by the troops of Lieutenant-General Robert Monckton.
  His 2092 men invaded the heart of the village defended by 300 militiamen and Amerindians under the command of Étienne Charest (born in 1718 and died in 1783).
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•  1763 - April 18 - Marie-Josephte Corriveau alias la Corriveau hanged near the Plains of Abraham for murdering her husband Louis Dodier,
  who apparently beat her; the corpse of the celebrated murderess is hung for a month in an iron cage at Lauzon by the Pointe-Levy for passers-by to see; the cage is discovered in 1851.
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  Quebec and Point Levis seen from Ange Gardien (1805)
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• The first church of Saint-Joseph was burnt down in 1830 and rebuilt on the same land.
  
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• 1832 - The Parish of St. Joseph de la Pointe Levi,
  by regulation of Sept. 20, 1721, confirmed by an order in council, Mar. 3, 1722, extends 3 1/ 2 leagues and 4 arpents; vis. 21 arpesnts in Mont-a-peine, beginning at the house of Joseph Turgeon, fif de Vitre 10 arpents, Martiniere 15 arpents, and 3 leagues of Lauzon to the R. Chaudiere. At least one ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Point Levi, Isle of Orleans, etc. from below the Citadel, Quebec (1840)
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  by N.P. Willis, Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, 1842
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• The City of Lévis was born in 1861.
  The founder of this new city was Mgr. Joseph-David Déziel (1806–1882). Many municipalities in the territory of present-day Lévis were merged between 1861 and 2002. Many towns were created and the Village of Pointe-Levy (or St-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy) became the Village of Lauzon in 1867 and then...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• A village developed over time which was first named Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy; Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis then, but which was renamed the village of Lauzon in 1867.
  
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• The village of Lauzon was incorporated on January 1, 1867.
  The name of the village was chosen by its residents to avoid confusion with the neighboring town of Lévis, incorporated in 1861. In fact, this decision triggered opposition from residents living south of the village, especially the resident farmers in the ranks of Harlaka. Thus, the southern...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1873
  LEVIS, or POINT LEVI, the chief town of the co. of Levis, Que., is situated on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, opposite Quebec, and is the terminus of the Grand Trunk railway and the landing place of the passengers arriving from Europe by the Ocean steamships, 172 miles N.E. of Montreal. It...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• For decades, Lauzon's economy was based on the Davie shipyard, whose construction began in 1880 with the digging of a dry dock (Lorne dry dock).
  Mr. George Taylor Davie bought in 1879 the land of Anse aux Sauvages (a place also known as Indian Cove West) which had belonged to Duncan Patton, but after his death, his widow decided to get rid of it. Then, a team of 225 men excavated the site of the future dry dock and the first stone of the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1882-84 Point Levis
  ...It is hard to choose, but a few should be visited, and among these Point Levis stands first in geographical order and in interest of all kinds.
  
  Landing at Indian Cove, where the descendants of those Iroquois, who got from the English Government so much a-piece for every French scalp, used to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
  
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• The opening of the first boarding school for boys took place in 1885.
  It was the Collège de Lauzon, the first boarding school for boys on the South Shore of Quebec. The institution was run by the brothers of the Clercs Saint-Viateur community. This college became Saint-Joseph Primary School in the late 1960s.
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•  1890 - BRIDGE WENT DOWN - ENTIRE PASSENGER TRAIN SMASHED IN PIECES. ENGINE AND BAGGAGE CAR ALONE REMAIN ON TRACK - TEN PASSENGERS KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
  Quebec, Dec. 18. - The express train from Halifax on the Intercolonial which was due at Levis at 11:40 a.m., met with a frightful accident about three miles from its destination.
  The scene of the wreck is an embankment at St. Joseph de Levis. The train was made up of a baggage and mail car, one...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Lauzon / St. Joseph de Levis
  Lauzon, or St. Joseph de Levis, a post-village in Levis co., Quebec, on the S. shore of the St. Lawrence, 2 miles from Levis. It has 20 stores, a brewery, a ship-yard, and a large trade in lumber and wood. A steam ferry runs between here and Quebec. Pop. 1847.
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• On November 3, 1910, the village of Lauzon was incorporated into the city.
  
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• 1916
  Levis, Levis Town, or Point Levis, a city and capital of the co. of Levis, Quebec, situated on the S. shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec, on the Grand Trunk, the Intercolonial and the Quebec Central R«. It is the landing-place of the passengers arriving from Europe by the ocean...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Garage Trans-Canada, Lauzon, Levis, Canada.
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  Hotel Larochelle
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• 1948 - Lauzon
  Lauzon, a town in Lévis county, Quebec, on the St. Lawrence river opposite the end of the island of Orleans, and on the Canadian National Railway. Christened Pointe de Lévy by Champlain in 1625, in honour of Henry de Lévy, Duc de Ventadour, Viceroy of New France, it adopted its present name in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1955 - October 28 - Fire destroys shipyards at Lauzon
  On October 27, 1955, the Davie Shipbuildings co. shipyard was razed by a fire that caused damages of 3 to 4 million dollars. Over a thousand employees of the Davie Shipbuilding co. will be deprived of work by this disaster which, in addition to causing considerable damage to the construction sites, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1989 - Lauzon merges with Lévis
  
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• Lévis
  Lévis, Qué, City, pop 40 926 (2001c), 40 407 (1996c), 39 417 (1991cA), area 43.55 km2, inc 1990, is located on the rocky cliffs opposite Québec City, to which it is linked by ferry. Present-day Lévis is the result of the merger of the industrial city of Lauzon (inc 1957) in 1989 and the town of...Read MORE...