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What is the history of La Pocatière, Québec, Canada ?

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(Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere)

Explore La Pocatière, Québec, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures and genealogy.

• 1672 - François Pollet de La Combe-Pocatière
  In 1672, François Pollet de La Combe-Pocatière received the seigneurie de la Grande-Anse as a gift from his father-in-law, Nicholas Juchereau de...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1678 - Cathédrale Sainte-Anne established at La Pocatière
  
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  Cathédrale Sainte-Anne
  203, 4e avenue Painchaud, La Pocatière, QUÉBEC G0R 1Z0
  Parish established in 1678
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•  1826 - 26th Child!
  Quebec, March 25.
  We understand that the wife of one Andre Ouellet dit Rochette, of the parish of Ste. Anne, (la Pocatiere) is on the point of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1832 - STE. ANNE DE LA GRANDE ANSE or LA POCADIERE,
  seigniory, in the co. of Kamouraska, is bounded N.E. by the S. of Riviere Ouelle; S.W> by St. Roch des Aulnais; in the rear by Ixworth; in front by...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1840 - A Canadian Heroine Dead
  At Lotbinere, on 27th of July, at the age of 100 years and several months, Charlotte Oullet, of the parish of St Anne de la Pocatiere. This lady was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859 - First Agricultural School in North America
  In 1859, La Pocatière opened the first agricultural school in North America. It has continued in this tradition with L'Institut de technologie...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1866 - Bad Check
  The Journal de Quebec states that a poor farmer of St. Anne de la Pocatiere, who had heard that a relative of this father in Europe had died, leaving ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1873
  STE. ANNE DE LA POCATIERE, a post village and parish of Quebec, co. of Kamouraska, on the S. shore of the St. Lawrence, and on the G. T. R., 86 miles ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1882 - Yellow Fever
  Yellow fever has broken out at St. Anne de la Pocatiere and St. Pacome. It spread from bodies of persons who died in the United States, and were...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Village de Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere
  
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  College - Ste-Anne de la Pocatiere
  
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  Village Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que.
  
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  Presbytere de Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere
  
• 1906
  Saint Anne de la Pocatiere, a post-village of Kamouraska co., Quebec, on the S. shore of the St. Lawrence and on the Intercolonial R., 86 miles below ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1916 - Entire Village on Fire
  Quebec, August 2. - Dispatches say that the entire village of St. Anne De La Pocatiere is burning. Quebec and other cities sent aid to the scene of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Couvent Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, P.Q.
  
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  Restaurant - Motel Au Martinet, Ste-Anne de la Pocatiere, Que.
  
• La Pocatiere
  La Pocatière, Québec, city, pop 4518 (2001c), 4887 (1996c), 4648 (1991c), pop 4816 (1986c), area 21.73 km2, inc 1961 is situated in the...Read MORE...