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(Immaculée-Conception)

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• 1650 - Église de l’Immaculée-Conception established at Saint-Ours
  
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  Église de l’Immaculée-Conception
  2538, rue Immaculée-Conception, Saint-Ours, QUÉBEC
  Established 1650
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• 1681 - established
  The missions Baie St. Paul & St. Ours de la Province de Quebec is established this year.
  
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• 1832 - ST. OURS,
  seigniory, and its augmentation, in the co. of Richelieu, are bounded N.E. by Sorel and Bourchemin; S.W. by Contrecoeur, St. Denis and St. Hyacinthe; ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1837 - May 7, 1837 - Louis-Joseph Papineau
  Chosen leader of the Permanent Central Committee of the Patriotes at a protest meeting of about 1,200 people; they adopt the Declaration of St. Ours, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1844 - Crushed by Wheel
  Yesterday Captain Doyen of St. Ours, a Canadian gentleman of respectability in that parish, was struck on the breast by the shaft of caleche No. 149, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1844 to 1849 - CANAL TRAFFIC IN CANADA... RICHELIEU AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN
  ...The St. Ours lock and dams were commenced in 1844 and completed in 1849. The dams at this point raise the water from 4 to 7 feet in height, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1873
  ST. OURS, an incorporated town of Quebec, co. of Richelieu, on the River Richelieu, 21 miles from St. Hilaire Station. A small island here divides...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1880 - Catholics Protest
  ...Preparations are going on for the grand procession of male Catholics to-morrow in this city, which is to be a protest against the French decree...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Farmstead at St. Ours on the Richelieu River, ( Quebec. ) - 1889
  Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1970-188-421 W. H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
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•  1898 - 'TWAS TIME TO LOCK HIM UP. This Dangerous Individual Ran Loose Too Long.
  He Confesses to Having Fired the St. Ours' Convent and is Even now Filled With a Desire to Murder
  
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  Sorel, April 7. - A...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  St-Ours le Vieux Moulin.
  
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• 1906
  Saint Ours, a post-town of Richelieu co., Quebec, on the river Richelieu, 21 miles N. of St. Hilaire station. Pop. in 1901, 609.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906